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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>California Water Agencies Join Clean <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Water Act Court</st1:address></st1:Street>
Challenge<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Metropolitan Water District, the San Diego Water
Authority, the Westlands Water District, and the Association of California
Water Agencies are among the water agencies and groups that have joined the
Pacific Legal Foundation in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to limit federal
regulation of the Clean Water Act. The case involves a <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:State> man who was fined for attempting to
develop wetlands he owns. The foundation’s attorneys content that the act
only applies to navigable waterways and that federal regulators in this case
exceeded their authority under the law. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Source: California Special Districts Association News, page
14, Vol. 22, No. 2; March 2006 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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