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A Framework for Permitting Innovation in the Wastewater Sector
Michael Kiparsky, David Smith, Felicia Marcus, Justin Mattingly, Collin Mummert, Nell Green Nylen | December 1st, 2024
Our research and this report have focused primarily on how the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) permitting process implementing the Clean Water Act works for municipal wastewater utilities. However,
the issues and potential strategies to improve how the permitting process addresses innovation are also relevant for
other water management sectors such as stormwater, drinking water, watershed, wetland, and industrial wastewater
management, along with other permitting contexts.
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