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Court Reactivates WOTUS For Some
The U.S. District Court for the District
of South Carolina has reinstated the Obama-era Clean Water Rule in 26 states, including California, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia, according to attorneys
with Babst Calland.
However, attorneys general in Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi are pushing
back by requesting an expedited ruling
from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on their request for
a nationwide injunction against the rule.
Babst Calland confirms that U.S. District Judge David Norton on Aug. 16
issued a nationwide injunction against
the Environmental Protection Agency's
Feb. 6 order-referred to by the court as
the Suspension Rule-to delay the Obama
EPA's 2015 attempt to broaden the definitions of "waters of the United States"
subject to Clean Water Act jurisdiction.
EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers
stated at the time that they were delaying
implementing the CWR until Feb. 6,
2020, to give them time to develop a new
WOTUS definition (AOGR, March 2018,
pg. 32). The two agencies reiterated their
intent to repeal the CWR in a supplemental

notice of proposed rule making published
in the July 12 Federal Register (AOGR,
August 2018, pg. 16).
The Southern Environmental Law Center, representing nine groups, challenged
EPA's February order, contending it violated
the Administrative Procedure Act, and
Judge Norton agreed, Babst Calland says.
The firm points out that in proposing
the Suspension Rule, EPA and the Corps
solicited comments on adding an applicability date, but excluded comments on
the definition of WOTUS.
"Judge Norton expressly declined to
reach the merits of the 2015 CWR, but
he did point to a Fourth Circuit precedent
that holds when an agency suspends later
regulations and reinstates previous ones,
while 'preventing any discussion of the
substance or merits of either set of regulations,' the opportunity for comment
'cannot be said to have been a meaningful
opportunity' within the meaning of the
APA," Babst Calland quotes.
Checkerboard Enforcement
While Norton issued a nationwide injunction against the Suspension Rule,
Babst Calland says the CWR still will

not go into effect in 24 states for which
other U.S. district courts enjoined it.
In August 2015, the U.S. District Court
for the District of North Dakota exempted
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado,
Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South
Dakota and Wyoming from the CRW.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Georgia issued a similar ruling
in June for the states of Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin (AOGR, July 2018,
pg. 26).
"In these 24 states, the Corps' and
EPA's 1986 and 1988 regulations and related guidance will continue to define
the scope of federal jurisdiction until the
district courts' decisions on the merits,"
Babst Calland writes.
It adds that industry and agricultural
defendants have appealed Judge Norton's
ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 4th Circuit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
6th Circuit stayed the CWR nationwide
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