Good morning Mariposa Supervisors, I just made another comment atregulations.gov on the groundwater Proposed Directive FS-2014-0001-0001 (or if this doesn't work, drop the second 0001), requesting the comment period of 8/4/14 be extended to coincide with the other Proposal on our water, EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880 that was extended to 10/20/14.

 

There are now a whopping 12 comments on the groundwater Proposal, compared with over 204,500 on the other one.  Since they are both about our water, it only makes sense to extend the groundwater Proposal also.  Please consider adding this request to your response, and/or making a separate request to do it.

 

I don't understand why this Proposal has drawn so few comments, since it's at least as important to state and local water management agencies as the other one, if not more so!  It seems to me if the federal government gains control of all the groundwater underneath federally-managed lands, they can then basically control (or claim control) of the surface water as well, and probably water on adjacent land, whether public or private.  So private property owners should be protesting this government takeover as well.

 

This could be a subtle ploy to add water management agencies to the EPA end-runs around the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress.  Adding the regulations of the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Acts (state and federal), and the Endangered Species Act (state and federal) would no doubt be a regulation nightmare for state and local agencies, and private property owners.  

 

Thank you very much!  Evie Wilson, wilsonevie@hotmail, 209-742-4261

Posted by TSPN TV on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:15PM