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Wyoming Welder Faces $75,000 a Day in EPA Fines for Building Pond on His Property
The property owner says he followed the state rules for a stock pond when he built it in 2012 and has an April 4-dated letter from the Wyoming State Engineer’s Office to prove it.
“Said permit is in good standing and is entitled to be exercised exactly as permitted,” the state agency letter to Johnson said.
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Had this man decided from the start to defy the law, and build without prior approval or permits, it is likely that the EPA would be blissfully unaware that this had even happened.
The same trap is laid in the states where marijuana growing is at least legal some of the time. The DEA is taking the state's records of people compliant with their own laws, and using them as the basis for federal investigations and prosecutions.