By Janice Kurbjun – Summit Daily News

As the public comment period comes to a close for the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed guidance on determining whether a waterway is protected by the Clean Water Act, kayakers, conservationists and sportsmen from across the state gathered earlier this week to demonstrate what groups considered “broad-based support” for EPA's efforts, hand-delivering to EPA officials 23,887 comment postcards, photo petitions, letters, and stacks of emails in support of EPA action to keep the state's waterways clean. For full story, click here. For other comments in favor of the guidance, see Senator Leahy’s response (VT), click here. Coalition letter submitted by National Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited, Izaak Walton League of America, TRCP, and The Wildlife Society, click here. Environment America, click here. Environment Colorado, Trout Unlimited, Sierra Club in CO, click here.