EPA's Pruitt: New WOTUS Rule to Come In First Quarter 2018

A new version of the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule will now not likely come until the first quarter of 2018, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt.The timeline has slipped from initial indications that it could come yet in 2016, but Pruitt said at the Concordia Annual Summit the new version will be proposed "sometime in the first quarter of next year."EPA has also proposed rescinding the Obama-era WOTUS rule, proposing to put back in place the regulations that were replaced by the Obama-era rule.Comments under that initial proposal are due September 27.