We're approaching the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's Maui decision in which the Court answered a yes or no question - - does the Federal Clean Water Act apply to discharges to groundwater -- maybe. Courts are beginning to try to make sense out of the Court's seven factor test and the only thing for sure so far is that there is going to be a lot more litigation before we arrive at a hard and fast rule.
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The Supreme Court's Murky Functional Equivalence Test for Clean Water Act Jurisdiction
“The only thing certain is more litigation and likely yet more ‘guidance’ from EPA”