Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, was one of the 70 co-sponsors of a U.S. House resolution to block expanded federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction over small streams. If necessary, he says, he will help stop funding that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would need to act under their new Waters of the United States rule. “The bottom line is, if not stopped, the administration’s flawed rule – and this is called the WOTUS rule – would give the federal government regulatory authority over virtually any place where water flows in the United States, and that can include a puddle,” Allen said in a phone interview last week.