(NewsDakota.com/NDAgConnection.com) – U.S. Senator John Hoeven Thursday helped introduce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution, sponsored by Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and cosponsored by all Republican Senators, to rescind the Biden administration’s final rule to redefine the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS).

“The Biden administration’s expanded WOTUS goes far beyond the authority granted by Congress, imposing costly federal permitting requirements across industries, including on farmers, ranchers and energy producers,” said Hoeven. “This burdensome and overreaching approach to regulation ultimately leads to higher prices for American consumers, the exact opposite of what our nation needs during this time of historic inflation. Instead, we should provide regulatory relief and take a states-first approach to protecting our land and water that respects private property rights. Introducing this CRA comes as part of my continued efforts, including through the appropriations process, to stop this expanded WOTUS definition.”

Hoeven has been working to protect private property rights and push back on the Biden administration’s efforts to advance an expanded WOTUS rule, which imposes unworkable mandates, burdensome new permitting requirements and compliance cost on landowners, energy and agriculture producers and other industries.