Events
EPA and Army Hybrid Public Meeting for the Proposed “Updated Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’” Rule
December 12 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am CST
The U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of the Army will hold a public meeting in Bismarck, North Dakota to gather input on the proposed rule. There will be additional public meeting(s) scheduled in the coming weeks.
Please use the link above to register to provide comments or to listen to the public meeting, either virtually or in-person. Requests to speak will also be taken the day of the meeting at the meeting registration desk for those participating in-person and during the speaker waitlist for those participating virtually. EPA and the Army will make every effort to accommodate all speakers who arrive and register, although preferences on speaking times may not be able to be fulfilled. On the last working day before each meeting, EPA will post a general agenda for the meeting that will list pre-registered speakers in approximate order. The agencies will make every effort to follow the schedule as closely as possible on the day of the public meeting; however, please plan for the meetings to run either ahead of schedule or behind schedule.
Each commenter will have three minutes to provide oral testimony. EPA and the Army encourage commenters to also provide the agencies with a copy of their oral testimony by emailing it to wotus-outreach@epa.gov and submitting the text of their oral comments as written comments to the rulemaking docket EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322 on Regulations.gov.