Federal Register - "Stream Protection Rule"

Title: Stream Protection Rule Source: Federal Register Data/Action: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Proposed Rule) Date: 7/27/2015 Text Preview: ...fuels the aquatic food web.\10\ According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), headwater streams that flow only seasonally or... ...EPA estimates that SMCRA permits in existence between 1992 and 2002 authorized the destruction of 1,208 miles of headwater streams.\12\ This total included approximately 2 percent of the total stream miles and 4 percent of the first-order and second-order stream miles in the central Appalachian coalfields.\13\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \12\ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency... ...Restoration Projects. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Washington, DC EPA 843-K-12-006, p...