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John Duarte: “The local army corps of Engineers regulator, one guy in five…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte

Published | Video Starts at 21:02

In 2010, 1112, we had a global food crisis, and the price of wheat was high. So we went out there and tilled the land to plant wheat. The local army corps of Engineers regulator, one guy in five counties drove by and from his windshield decided we deprived it for trees without going through the right prototype. In the tweet, you're only going four inches. It was four to seven inches. Their own government expert report literally said it was four to seven inch tillage. (21:02–21:12)

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Asserts that a single regulator from the Army Corps of Engineers made a decision about tree deprivation without proper procedure.

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