U.N. Agenda 21 Dictates EPA U.S. Waters Affairs

Under the United Nations Agenda 21 Program or the controversial International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), a collective of local governments and national and regional local government organizations are committed to radical environmental policies to eliminate private property rights. The Green Environmental Initiatives, Greenhouse Gases with Carbon Taxes and restrictive EPA laws have been a looming cloud above the United States democracy for over the past twenty years. 

I should emphasize that U.N. Agenda 21 is designed to guide oversight in 'forced urbanization' to relocation of population centers by simply turning the water off in areas that the Federal planners do not want the people to live. The bureaucrats are currently designing 'downtown renewal' communities across the nation for more concentrated collective densities. 

The Obama administration is now the perfect storm for this cloud to join up and settle over our land. The EPA is to become the premier federal agency for implementing Agenda 21 in the United States. Again, the general public is uneducated and stupid about sophisticated concepts and problems, ready to thoughtlessly vote again. The outlook looks pretty pathetic unless the tide can turn in the next major election cycles.

IT’S TIME TO DITCH THE RULE - EPA 'WATERS OF THE U.S.' ACT

Puddles, ponds, ditches, ephemerals (land that looks like a small stream during heavy rain but isn’t wet most of the time) and isolated wetlands dot the nation’s farmland. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) on March 25, 2014 issued a proposed rule that would expand its regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to these types of land features and waters, giving the agencies the power to dictate land-use decisions and farming practices in or near them. The rule will make it more difficult to farm or change a farming operation to remain competitive and profitable.

In releasing the new 'waters of the U.S.' proposed rule, EPA (the lead agency on the rule) has said that it is clarifying the scope of the CWA. However, EPA’s “clarification” is also a broad expansion of the types of waters and lands that would be subject to federal permit requirements and limits on farming practices and other land-uses. 

It is vital for agriculture that the proposed rule does not become final or, if that is not possible, substantially changed. Farm Bureau will pursue this goal in the following ways:

Support extending the current 90-day comment period to 180 days to give farmers and ranchers time to review the proposed rule and provide input;

Comment about the impact the proposed rule would have on farms;

Support any efforts in Congress to rein in the federal government’s expansion of control over private land;

Engage in traditional social media campaigns to bring attention to the impacts of the proposed rule on landowners, small businesses and the economy, as well as agriculture.

The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are publishing for public comment a proposed rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act. This is Docket No. EPA-HQ-OW- 2011-0880 in the Federal Register.

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