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    1. Stormwater Management

    Dropping By #102 | Funding for Centers of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies

    Feb. 27, 2023
    $3 million in funding will be available for the establishment of three to five Centers of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies.

    This week, Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions is joined by Seth Brown, executive director of the National Municipal Stormwater Alliance (NMSA) and Walt Marlowe, executive director of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). 

    The three discuss the funding that Congress will provide for three to five Centers of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies (CESITs), under a new program authorized in the Infrastructure and Investment in Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021. 

    NMSA and WEF proposed the concept of creating stormwater centers of excellence as part of their annual Stormwater Policy Recommendations to Congress document, which has resulted in multiple other stormwater policy legislative successes since 2017 when the first recommendations document was released. 

    About the Author

    Katie Johns

    Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions, graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016 with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. Johns joined the Stormwater Solutions team in September 2019. Johns also helps plan the annual StormCon conference and co-hosts the Talking Under Water podcast. Prior to entering the B2B industry, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Sarasota, Florida, and a magazine assistant editor in the Chicago suburbs. She can be reached at [email protected].

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