Caltrans' study of interchange for casino fails: Ninth Circuit upholds federal regulation of adjacent wetlands.(clean water act)

From: California Planning & Development Report | Date: January 1, 2006 | Copyright information

A 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the Army Corps of Engineers' regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act does not limit the Corps' jurisdiction over wetlands adjacent to "waters of the United States," the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

In a case from Fremont, the Ninth Circuit held that the Supreme Court decision in Solid Waste Agency of N. Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159 (SWANCC) did not alter the Corps'...

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