Feinstein, Speier to EPA: Explain Reversal of Redwood City Salt Plant Determination
(WorldNews Environment)

Washington-Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (both D-Calif.) today to explain how his agency determined that the Redwood City Salt Plant Site was not subject to federal permitting under the Clean Water Act despite an earlier draft that stated otherwise. `As you know, EPA Region 9 drafted a jurisdictional determination in November 2016 finding that 1,270 acres of the 1,300 Redwood City Salt Plant Site are `waters of the United States` and therefore subject to federal permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act,` the members of Congress wrote. `After considering both EPA Region 9`s November 2016 draft determination and EPA`s March 2019 final decision document, we...