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Wayne Gilchrest: “I would like to make one other comment on the compensation criteria, which people say is absent in this bill. We already…”

On the recordMay 10, 1995
I would like to make one other comment on the compensation criteria, which people say is absent in this bill. We already passed a law to compensate landowners for wetlands and for the Endangered Species Act, so putting it into the Clean Water Act I think is totally unnecessary. I do want to make a comment about compensation and the Fifth Amendment property rights. If your property is taken away for the public good, you are to be compensated. Everybody endorses that. However, if your property is, in my judgment, reasonably regulated to prevent pollution of your neighbor's property or to prevent public harm, compensation in this area is a whole other different story. Should we compensate people to prevent them from polluting? I do not think we should.
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing compensation criteria related to property rights in the context of environmental regulation.

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