Wet PAC - Table 3
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Swamped With Cash: Wet PAC - Table 3
March 1, 1996
S. 851 would remove Federal Clean Water Act protection from more than 74 million acres of wetlands in the contiguous 48 states.
| State | Estimated wetlands acreage, Mid-1980's |
Minimum wetlands acres that lose protection under S. 851 |
Estimated percentage of wetlands that lose protection under S. 851 |
| Alabama | 3,783,800 | 3,632,448 | 96% |
| Arizona | 600,000 | 420,000 | 70% |
| Arkansas | 2,763,600 | 2,487,240 | 90% |
| California | 454,000 | 317,800 | 70%-90% |
| Colorado | 1,000,000 | 700,000 | 70% |
| Connecticut | 172,500 | 97,290 | 56.4%-85% |
| Delaware | 223,000 | 189,550 | 85% |
| Florida | 11,038,300 | 7,174,895 | 65% |
| Georgia | 5,298,200 | 4,763,082 | 90% |
| Idaho | 385,700 | 320,131 | 99% |
| Illinois | 1,254,500 | 1,003,600 | 80% |
| Indiana | 750,633 | 750,633 | 100% |
| Iowa | 421,900 | 337,520 | 80% |
| Kansas | 435,400 | 330,904 | 76% |
| Kentucky | 300,000 | 285,000 | 95% |
| Louisiana | 8,784,200 | 3,777,206 | 43% |
| Maine | 5,199,200 | 2,095,278 | 40%-71% |
| Maryland | 440,000 | 198,000 | 45% |
| Massachusetts | 588,486 | 153,006 | 26%-64% |
| Michigan | 5,583,400 | 4,745,890 | 85% |
| Minnesota | 8,700,000 | 4,611,000 | 53% |
| Mississippi | 4,067,000 | 2,806,230 | 69% |
| Missouri | 643,000 | 610,850 | 95% |
| Montana | 840,300 | 630,225 | 75% |
| Nebraska | 1,905,500 | 1,429,125 | 75% |
| Nevada | 236,350 | 189,080 | 80% |
| New Hampshire | 200,000 | 139,600 | 70%-90% |
| New Jersey | 915,960 | 824,364 | 90% |
| New Mexico | 481,900 | 433,710 | 90% |
| New York | 1,025,000 | 820,000 | 80% |
| North Carolina | 5,689,500 | 4,978,313 | 88% |
| North Dakota | 2,490,000 | 1,369,500 | 10%-100% |
| Ohio | 482,800 | 386,240 | 80% |
| Oklahoma | 949,700 | 940,203 | 99% |
| Oregon | 1,393,900 | 1,031,486 | 74% |
| Pennsylvania | 499,014 | 424,162 | 85% |
| Rhode Island | 65,154 | 26,062 | 40%-69% |
| South Carolina | 4,659,000 | 4,551,843 | 98% |
| South Dakota | 1,780,000 | 1,157,000 | 65% |
| Tennessee | 787,000 | 590,250 | 75% |
| Texas | 7,612,412 | 6,851,171 | 90% |
| Utah | 558,000 | 251,100 | 45%-70% |
| Vermont | 220,000 | 66,000 | 30%-83% |
| Virginia | 1,074,613 | 827,452 | 77% |
| Washington | 938,000 | 891,100 | 95% |
| West Virginia | 102,000 | 81,600 | 80%-90% |
| Wisconsin | 5,331,392 | 2,825,638 | 53% |
| Wyoming | 1,250,000 | 887,500 | 71% |
| Total, Contiguous U.S. | 104,374,314 | 74,410,275 | 71% |
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data and results of interagency field tests.