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Testimony Concerning Efforts to Address Urban Stormwater Runoff

Testimony of Nancy Stoner, co-director of NRDC's Water Program, before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on the barriers to full, effective implementation of green infrastructure as an integral part of water and wastewater resources management in communities across the country, March 19, 2009.

last revised 4/14/2009

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