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Dan Benishek: “Congress wrote the Clean Water Act specifically to allow States to assume Clean Water Act section 404 permitting…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2018
Congress wrote the Clean Water Act specifically to allow States to assume Clean Water Act section 404 permitting authority in place of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA.
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Dan Benishek
Republican · Michigan

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Dan Benishek explains the intent of the Clean Water Act regarding state authority.

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