The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), a group that promotes sustainable communities, has completed a first-time study on property damage claims from stormwater flooding that the group hopes will aid EPA as it struggles to quantify the benefits of its long-awaited rule requiring developers to limit such runoff after construction is complete. A CNT source says the group has offered the report, which sought to quantify the costs of stormwater flooding damage in Cook County, IL, which includes Chicago and surrounding suburbs, as further justification, beyond pollution control and ecological health benefits, for the pending runoff restrictions. "It's being discussed as very significant because it provides such a strong argument for the stormwater rule," the source says. Asked if EPA plans to use the report or something similar when tallying the rule's benefits, the source says, "that would be our hope."
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