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Illinois groups oppose EPA waters plans
 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A coalition of Illinois business organizations, professional asso-ciations and farm groups have voiced concerns with impacts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) proposed changes to the regulations connected to the Clean Water Act.
The proposal would give the U.S. EPA and the Corps power to regulate or prohibit land use, farming practices and certain business practices by regulating tributaries, ponds, lakes, wetlands, roadside, irrigation and storm water ditches, adjacent waters, floodplains, puddles and even ephemeral streams, which are bodies of water that contain water only during a major storm event.
9/12/2014