In an unprecedented and unconstitutional power grab, Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is trying to abuse the Clean Water Act to control ditches and gullies on private property, claiming the ditches and gullies are part of navigable waterways.

“The Obama administration is doing everything in its power to increase costs and regulatory burdens for American businesses, farmers and individual property owners,” – Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.)

Tell Obama to Keep the EPA Off Our Private Property!

Lawmakers are working to block an unprecedented power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Water Act (CWA) and control land alongside ditches, gullies and other ephemeral spots by claiming the sources are part of navigable waterways.

These temporary water sources are often created by rain or snowmelt, and would make it harder for private property owners to build in their own backyards, grow crops, raise livestock and conduct other activities on their own land, lawmakers say.

“Never in the history of the CWA has federal regulation defined ditches and other upland features as

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