Wetland Permitting Sections 401 and 404

Wetland Protections and Permitting – Sections 401 and 404 Clean Water Act of 1972

When the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), with funding from the EPA, set out to conduct a comprehensive review of state wetland protections in 2005-2007, they undertook a complex task. Protecting wetlands from pollution and degradation is generally considered to fall under the Clean Water Act (CWA), [1] but the way…