Holmes County Republican Rep. Bob Gibbs, a member of the House Transportation Committee whose redrawn district stretches into Lorain County, will chair its Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment for the next two years, committee officials announced Wednesday.

Gibbs' subcommittee has jurisdiction over clean water infrastructure; water resources development for navigation, flood protection, and ecosystem restoration; water pollution control; and hazardous waste cleanup.  The panel also conducts oversight of the federal regulation of clean water. 

Gibbs, a former president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation who is serving his second term in Congress, also chaired the subcommittee as a freshman last year

"Our focus and priorities will remain on creating jobs, cutting waste, and removing unnecessary government bureaucracy and regulatory red tape," Gibbs said in a press release.