The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers today finalized the Waters of the United States Rule, also known as WOTUS. The move is causing outrage from some leaders in Missouri's cattle industry.

"This administration and this out-of-control agency have absolutely no regard for private property rights," Missouri Cattlemen's Association President Janet Akers said in a news release.

MORE OVERSIGHT: EPA and the Corps finalized the WOTUS rule today. Cattle producers in the state say the new rule ignores concerns from landowners in Missouri and across the country and creates more government oversight on private lands and farms.

She went on to say that, "This agency acts more like an activist organization determined to convert all private land into a vast national park. It is clear that bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., see the need to declare themselves ruler of every drop of water and piece of private property in this country. This rule is a pervasive invasion of private property rights."

Leaders of the cattle industry expressed concern over the fact that the EPA took just six months to review more than one million public comments on the rule.

MCA Executive Vice President Mike Deering said the rule unilaterally strips private property rights and adds hundreds of thousands of stream miles and acres of land to federal jurisdiction. Despite the EPA administrator calling the concerns of cattlemen "ludicrous," Deering stressed in a statement that the impact in Missouri would be "devastating." He said the rule would throw nearly 80,000 additional Missouri stream miles under the regulatory authority of EPA and the Corps.

"The agencies' rule throws private property rights to the curb and clearly violates Supreme Court precedent by subjecting nearly all water to scientifically unfounded regulation," Deering said. "The intentional use of very broad and vague language in this rule makes clear that the government's intent is to subject landowners to limitless regulation. This nonsense cannot possibly be supported by the Clean Water Act or the U.S. Constitution."

While the MCA and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association are reviewing the details of tthe final WOTUS rule, Akers stated the only fix to this rule is to start over with all stakeholders' input and direction from Congress.

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