How can a designation that requires no public notice, no comment opportunity and was created without coordination or consultation with affected landowners, local government or States result in increased coordination?

It did so with no public testimony and despite widespread local opposition.

This sweeping order...is asserting authority that Congress has hitherto reserved to itself through the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

This sweeping order... is asserting authority that Congress has hitherto reserved to itself.

The implications of this designation can be economically devastating to local economies.

The National Blueways Order appears to have originated through a leftist environmental organization called 'American Rivers.'

My constituents and I are tired of unelected Washington, DC bureaucrats creating new programs out of thin air that have the ability to end our way of life and the way that we make a living.

It reminds me of something that Abraham Lincoln said in his famous house divided speech.

if you get in bed with the Federal Government, you better expect something more than a good night's sleep.

But if it is simply a matter of putting pretty signs up saying that this is a National Blueways river, what is wrong with that?

It is a cleansing thing, according to this bizarre philosophy that seems to have developed within your department.