Pacific Legal Foundation | September 30, 2011
Did Congress pass the Clean Water Act so that federal bureaucrats could force American citizens to pay outrageous fees just to build a little house on their own property in rural Idaho? Well, the EPA thinks so.In 2005, Mike and Chantell Sackett purchased a 0.63 acre lot in Priest Lake, Idaho, surrounded by built-out parcels. They got all the permits for their three bedroom home. But when they…