Waters of the United States

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Laws  

• Clean Water Act - including Section 301 (prohibition on discharges), Section 404,  Section 502 (definitions) 
• Food Security Act definition for wetlands (16 USC 3801) 

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Regulations 

• Corps definition of waters of the United States (33 CFR 328.3); Jurisdictional determinations definitions (33 CFR 331.2)   
• EPA definition of waters of the United States (40 CFR 230.3) ; Migratory Bird Rule 
• Rivers and Harbors Act definition for navigable waters 

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Other Resources  

• American Rivers, Primer on Navigability 
• Carabell Permit Application and Property Map 
• Carabell Permit Denial 
• Carabell Public Interest Review 
• Delineation Training - Society of Wetland Scientists 
• EPA Administrative Order in Rapanos and Property Map
• Jon Kusler, State Regulation of Wetlands to Fill the Gap (Association of State Wetlands Managers, Inc., 2004).
• Rapanos v. United State s Oral Argument Audio 
• Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. Corps Oral Argument Audio 
• Leah Stetson, Association of State Wetlands Managers, State Wetland Delineator Certification Programs, Wetland News (June-July 2007)
• U.S. v. Riverside Bayview Homes Oral Argument Audio 

Policies and Reports

• Corps 1987 Delineation Manual 
• Corps 1991 Proposed Delineation Manual 
• Environmental Law Institute, America's Vulnerable Waters : Assessing the Nation's Portfolio of Vulnerable Aquatic Resources since Rapanos v. United States, (Aug. 2011).
• Environmental Law Institute, The Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Handbook, 2d ed. (May 2012).
• Environmental Law Institute, State Constraints: State Imposed Limitations on the Authority of Agencies to Regulate waters Beyond the scope of the Federal Clean Water Act (May 2013).
• Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, Interagency Memorandum of Agreement Concerning Wetlands Determinations for Purposes of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Subtitle B of the Food Security Act, (Jan. 6, 1994)
• EPA/Corps 2015 Waters of the United States rule 
• EPA Connectivity Study 
• Applicability Rule (2018)
• EPA/Corps 2008 Rapanos Guidance
• EPA/Corps Revised 2008 Rapanos Guidance 
• EPA/Corps Announcement of 2011 Rapanos Guidance 
• EPA/Corps 2003 SWANCC Guidance 
• EPA/Corps 2003 ANPR re: SWANCC 
• Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Army, Soil Conservation Service, Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands (1989)
• General Accounting Office, Corps of Engineers Needs to Evaluate its District Office Practices in Determining Jurisdiction GAO–04–297 (Feb. 2004).
• Memorandum of Agreement Between the Department of the Army and the Environmental Protection Agency Concerning the Determination of the Section 404 Permit Program and the Application of the Exemptions Under Section 404(f) of the Clean Water Act (Jan. 19, 1989) and amended in 1993 
• National Food Security Act Delineation Manual 
• National Research Council. Wetlands: Characteristics and Boundaries 17 (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1995)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jurisdictional Determinations, Regulatory Guidance Letter 08-02 (June 26, 2008)
• James S. Wakeley, Developing a Regionalized Version of the Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual: Issues and Recommendations, ERDC/EL TR-02-20 (Aug. 2002)