Property Rights

Clean Water Restoration Act ~ S. 787

Definition: Clean Water Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters" that are subject to such Act with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.

How the Clean Water Restoration Act Will Effect You: The Federal Government would take over ALL waters in the United States. A federal permit would be needed for any and all activity on or within any body of water. Furthermore, the Government would have the power to do anything they want with any water they need. For example, if a state needed water, the federal government could pump the water needed from one state to another. A second example, if an animal rights activist wanted to stop fishing, it could be done with a stroke of a pen.