Federal Register Shows Obama's EPA Wants to Regulate and Tax Rainwater Runoff

I continue to hear there will be a huge battle to control water in the world coming soon. This doesn't seem even imaginable to me considering how much water the earth is made up of. A curious number of bills and proposals about water and control of water continue to show their heads from the federal government all the way up to the United Nations. This proposal from the EPA is now exception.

It appears the federal government through the EPA is getting ready to regulate rainwater runoff. Americans for Prosperity found this little gem in a Federal Register filing from October 2009.

...requirements, including design or performance standards, for stormwater discharges from, at minimum, newly developed and redeveloped sites. EPA intends to propose regulatory options that would revise the NPDES regulations and establish a comprehensive program to address stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped sites and to take final action no later than November 2012.

In other words, the EPA plans on telling your community how much storm water runoff is allowed to take place by taking measures to limit the the amount of runoff. Like anything the federal government does, there will be inspections and fines for communities that fail to meet the federal government's standards. These fines will obviously be passed on to the local taxpayers for something the federal government has no Constitutional authority to enforce.

Of course, taxpayers are going to pay anyway, because it will take millions of dollars in infrastructure to meet the EPA's demands to produce systems to meet the requirements.

You might as well consider this, as Americans for Prosperity calls it, Obama's tax on rainwater.

EPA Rainwater Runoff Regulations Proposal