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Letter from the President to the Secretary of Agriculture on the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
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Letter from the President to the Secretary of Agriculture on the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
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Digitized from Box 29 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
July 30, 1976
Dear Mr. Secretary:
The Congress is now evaluating Section 404 of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act under which the Army Corps of Engineers
regulates dredge and fill activities. I have directed a 60-day delay
in any expansion of Corps permit jurisdiction to accommodate this
Congressional review.
In promulgating the regulations under this authority, we have sought
--to the maximum extent permissible under existing law--to exempt
agricultural and forestry activities. To the same end, we shall urge
the Congress, in reconsidering this program, to provide an exemption
for all lands currently used for farming, ranching and forestry as long
as such use continues.
I believe such an exemption provides an appropriate balance botween
the need to protect the Nation's waters and wetlands and the need for
production of food, fiber and forest products. Accordingly, I ask that
you, as the Administration's spokesman for producers of these essential
commodities, join with the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency in urging the Congress to enact
such an exemption.
Sincerely,
CERALD R. FORD
The Honorable Earl L. Butz
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D.C. 20250
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