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• The construction industry is keeping a watchful eye on three regulatory cases that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, including one in which the justices ruled Tuesday that the Corps of Engineers took land from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission by damaging state timber land when water was released from a Corps dam every year.
• Other cases involve whether runoff from logging requires a permit and whether the Los Angeles Flood Control District has to try to figure out the sources of pollution that its system detected before water went into two rivers.
• The vice president of environmental and regulatory affairs and assistant general counsel for the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, Nick Goldstein, said, "The agencies keep trying to expand jurisdiction, so if there is anything in [the court’s] rulings that stops that, that’s good for construction."

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Although none of the cases touched on the broader question of federal versus state jurisdiction in issuing permits, construction groups are keeping a watchful eye on all three. ...