EPA and Department of the Army Establish Applicability Date for 2015 Clean Water Rule

Originally published in Journal of Water, Winter 2018

On February 6, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Department of the Army (“Army”) published in the Federal Register a new rule that finalizes an applicability date for the 2015 Clean Water Rule. The applicability date establishes February 6, 2020—two years from publication in the Federal Register—as the date that the 2015 Rul…