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Winter 2003 - V.18 N.4 Table of Content	House Members Urge Bush to Retain Clean Water Act Protection
News Around the Lagoon First Phase of Everglades Restoration Begins Trace Levels of Wood Presearvations Found in Florida Aquifer Nonnative Mussels Found in Tampa could Spread Wildly House Members Urge Bush to Retain Clean Water Act Protection Artificial Reefs Study and Regulation Plan Invasive Cogon Grass May Surpass Kudzu as Southern Plant Scourge Congress Oks $150 million for Everglades Central Florida Water Supply in Peril 5,000 New Fish Species in Census of Oceans EPA Reports 40 More Superfund Toxic Waste Site Cleanups Skin Lesions Affect Fishermen and Swimmers Mercury Decreases in Everglades Surfriders TRests Prompts Further StudyRunoff Cause Cattails Spread in Everglades Puffer-fish Band Stretches to One Year	Half the 435-member House have written to President Bush urging him to scrap his efforts to change Clean Water Act regulations and reduce waterways protected nationwide. 218 House members said Bush's efforts "represent attempts to remove federal protection from waters - including many streams, wetlands and natural ponds-that have been covered by the Clean Water Act. Those efforts could lead to more water pollution, wetland losses and state financial burdens. Environmentalists said those actions could result in a loss of federal protection for millions of acres of swamps and bogs considered "isolated" from larger water bodies. The administration adopted new guidelines last year that emphasize the quality of new wetlands being created more than maintaining total wetlands acreage, which was the goal of no "net loss" of wetlands that former President Bush set in 1989. Next Article: Artificial Reefs Study and Regulation Plan

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