EPA Report Opposes Easing of Water Rules

...The EPA document recommends that the agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reconsider a plan unveiled in January to stop applying Clean Water Act protections to most intrastate, nonnavigable wetlands and headwater streams.
Doing so, the EPA report contends, would have "profound and far reaching impacts" and "have serious effects on the progress made during the last 30 years to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the nation's water."
The report, which was released to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation under a Freedom of Information Act request, is not part of the public record the EPA is compiling on the proposed policy change, officials said...