On the recordOctober 12, 2000
As the Senator knows, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was not established with the intent that it become a regulatory agency. Rather, the principal mission of the Agency is to administer relief to areas of our nation that are suffering from catastrophic events such as floods or hurricanes. The Section 404 permitting program under the Clean Water Act, as the Senator also knows well, is a complicated and controversial federal regulatory program administered primarily by the Army Corps of Engineers. However, the Environmental Protection Agency also has a major role in the implementation of the program that includes the ability to veto decisions by the Corps to issue specific Section 404 permits. I believe that two agencies implementing a federal regulatory program is quite enough.
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