Machine Learning Predicts Which Rivers, Streams, and Wetlands the Clean Water Act Regulates Affiliations:

This represents 15% of wetland area in the continental US at the time of European settlement, 6 Submitted Manuscript: Confidential or over a fourth of the wetlands that disappeared between the time of European settlement and 170 today (25). [...] “Brief amicus curiae of the National Association of Wetland Managers, the Association of Floodplain Managers, the American Planning Association, the American Water Works Association, and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission” (2022); 454%20Brief.pdf. [...] Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Army, “Economic Analysis for the Proposed “Revised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule” (2021); wotus_nprm_economic-analysis.pdf. [...] DAK and JSS wrote a public report on EPA’s analyses of the CWR and the NWPR as part of the External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, funded by the Sloan Foundation. [...] The red bar shows the gap between the model’s average confidence and the accuracy of AJDs in each bin.