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Reclamation is the largest wholesale water supplier and the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the United States, with operations and facilities in the 17 Western States. Its facilities also provide substantial flood control, recreation, and fish and wildlife benefits. Visit our website at www.usbr.gov.

Categories: Congress, Redistricting

Posted by Dan Smith

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/08/referendum-filed-to-overturn-c.html#ixzz1WaHKioX9

Protecting Our Children

From Indoctrination

September 10, 2011, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Marie Callender’s

5455-A Philadelphia Street, Chino, CA 91710

(909) 613-0434

Special Guest Speaker:  Benjamin Lopez

Legislative Analyst & Pro Family Advocate

Find out how SB-48 will impact schools, educators, and families. Parents’ rights are being stripped from them through classrooms.  Get involved before it is too late!!

For more information: 

Carmen Fructuoso-Canter (909) 731-6101

Toni Holle (909) 438-0370

Chris or Judy Alcala (909) 218-0152

William Canter (909) 374-9323

Harvey Anderson (909) 627-8758

Or visit our website at:

www.chinoteaparty.com

MORE EVENTS GOING ON IN THE INLAND EMPIRE AREA WILL BE POSTED IN OUR WEBSITE SOON.

Categories: Gov. Jerry Brown

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/08/jerry-brown-sales-income-taxes-2012.html#ixzz1WaDCyWZh

PNP comment: Uugggggghhhhhhh, oh no! — Editor Liz Bowen

FROM:

Land Rights Network

American Land Rights Association

PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604

Phone: 360-687-3087 – Fax: 360-687-2973

E-mail: alra@pacifier.com

Web Address: http://www.landrights.org

Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003

EPA-Corps Bypassing Congress With New Clean Water Regulations

Deadline–Comments Must Be Received On Or Before July 31, 2011.

Urgent Action Required By All Landowners –

This is the largest grab of power, expanded government regulations, water and land use controls yet by the Obama Administration.

The new EPA-Corps Guidance (regulations) will give the EPA and Corps of Engineers control over most private property and Federal lands.

The new regulations seek to overturn the Rapanos and Swancc Supreme Court Decisions of 2006 and 2001 that limited the wetlands regulation jurisdiction of the EPA and Corps of Engineers to navigable waters as passed by Congress in the Clean Water Act.

Action Items:

—–1.  Call, fax or e-mail your Congressman to request him or her to ask the Obama Administration for a 90-day extension beyond the July 31 deadline to the limited comment period now offered.

Any Congressman can be called at (202) 225-3121.  When you call, ask for their e-mail and fax addresses if you do not already have them.

—–2.  Call, fax or e-mail both your Senators asking them to strongly request the Obama Administration to extend the comment period by 90 days.  Any Senator may be called at (202) 224-3121.

—–3.  Do not assume an extension to the deadline will be granted.  The Obama Administration has a history of ignoring Congress and doing what they please.  Make sure you submit your comments by July 31.  A letter will do.  You can submit from one page to many pages.

—–4.  Go to www.landrights.org to see the next e-mail ahead of time and get copies of the Comment Questionnaires you can use to help you get comments out.  Be sure to personalize them.  Make them your own.

Your comments are critical because they can provide the basis to sue the Obama Administration over the EPA and Corps of Engineer Clean Water Act Regulations (Guidance) later.

There is a concept in law called “laches, or sleeping on your rights.”  If you fail to participate in the official comment period, you may have difficulty in the future defending your rights in court.

E-mail Comments To: ow-docket@epa.gov

Write in the subject line:  EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0409

You can get sample Comment Questionnaires to use to send by going to www.landrights.org.  Go to o the top of the home page.  Just use one of the formatted Comment Questionnaires.

Background:

EPA seeks to expand its authority over U.S. waters

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its newly updated “Draft Guidance on Identifying Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act” on May 2nd, a move that could potentially expand the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Corps of Engineers (Corps) oversight over all U.S. waters.

Since he who controls the water controls the land, these new slight-of- hand regulations would largely give the Obama Administration EPA and Corps substantial controls over all private and Federal land.

The guidance plan will, once finalized, give EPA broader authority to regulate bodies of water that had been the responsibility of state managers.

According to EPA’s announcement, the agency, once a 60-day posting period lapses on July 1, 2011, will allow the federal government to expand Clean Water Act (CWA) coverage to any and all bodies of water which have a “significant nexus” to a traditional navigable water or interstate water, including:

Tributaries to traditional navigable waters or interstate waters; Wetlands adjacent to jurisdictional tributaries to traditional navigable waters or interstate waters; Waters that fall under “other waters” category of the regulations.

According to the EPA’s release on the guidance, the agency will divide these “other waters” into two categories, those that are physically proximate to other jurisdictional waters and those that are not, and discusses how each category should be evaluated.

EPA, under the Clean Water Act (CWA), will also continue to regulate:

The traditional navigable waters; interstate waters; wetlands adjacent to either traditional navigable waters or interstate waters; Non-navigable tributaries to traditional navigable waters that are relatively permanent, meaning they contain water at least seasonally; And, wetlands that directly abut relatively permanent waters.

For more –

http://www.landrights.org/