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we have taken out the National

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Technical Committee for Ordinary High

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watermark . It's a committee made up of

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E . P . A . And Army Corps regulators

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and academics and we are talking about

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the data sheet that we've spent 10

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years developing and national manual

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and trying to look critically at it

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While we release it . During an interim

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period , we've been working together

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under crawls leadership to develop

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a manual that will help us make

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determinations around the country and

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running water systems about how we

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determine what is the ordinary high

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watermark . And that's really helpful

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to us for some ways that we administer

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the Clean Water Act . The O . H . W . M .

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Was first defined in 18 99 by the

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Rivers and Harbors Act and then was

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also added to the Clean Water Act as a

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way to determine what falls under

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federal jurisdiction in terms of waters

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of the U . S . You look for the

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ordinary high watermark and whatever

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falls underneath that is under federal

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jurisdiction . And that means then

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there's a lot of regulations that go

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along with that . And for the Army

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Corps it's the section 404 program but

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we co regulate together with the E . P .

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A . So for E . P . A . In particular ,

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we will definitely use these data

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sheets in the larger manual of how we

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go out and do a determination of

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ordinary high watermark to support lots

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of programs under the Clean Water Act

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because we have to know where the

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federal government actually has

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authorities or jurisdiction . And so

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it's really helpful for the decisions

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we make around permitting Around

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national pollution discharge , for

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instance . Um , it is also really

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helpful for us and partnering with the

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core under the 404 program that if we

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need to go out on a really tough case

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or a tough issue that EU . Is a is a

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good trained up partner to go out with

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the core and support some of their

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decision making as well .