THEREFORE, Great Lakes United supports the Labor and Environmental Clean Water/Jobs Funding Proposal which:

• provides 3 billion dollars a year for five years for current state and local sewage treatment plant improvements and upgrading through the Water Revolving Loan Program's current allocation formula;
• establishes additional sewer and combined sewer Infrastructure funding of $3 billion per year over ten years to states through the Water Revolving Loan Fund for high priority needs of the Great Lakes and designated national estuary under the nation's National Estuary Program;
• ensures that additional monies should be available to localities in the Great Lakes Basin and national estuary areas and provide not only for low-to-zero interest loans but also principle subsidies for localities in economic need; and
• provides that these new funds are viewed in budget terms as a federal jobs program and do not reduce other EPA funds available to state and local governments.

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United will work with Industry, Labor and Environmental Groups In the Great Lakes Basin and nationwide to promote this Clean Water/Jobs Program as part of the Clean Water Act debate, ensure that new facilities built wlth these funds are separated from toxic industrial wastes and inform the Great Lakes Congressional Delegalion of this resolution.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakee United at its Annual Meeting in Mackinaw City on May 16-18, 1986, commends Governor lllenchard and the Michigan Water Remources Commission for proposing to classify Michigan's waters of the Great Lakes as "outstanding national resource waters" for purposes'of U.S. EPA's water quality standards regulations;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United calls upon Governor Blanchard and the Michigan Water Resources Commission to eliminate the exception in proposed rule 1098(3) which would allow new or increased pollutant diacharges into the connecting channels or tributaries of the Great Lakes within Michigan's boundaries even if these discharges adversely affect Great Lakes water quality;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United calls upon the Michigan Water Resourcee Commission immediately to promulgate proposed rule 1098 designating Michigan's waters of the Great Lakes as "outstanding national resource waters," mended as suggested herein, as a revision to Michigan's water quality standards;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United calls upon the other Great Lakes states immediately to revise their water quality standards to classify the open waters of the Great Lakes located within their boundaries as "outstanding national resource waters" for purposes of the U.S. BPA's water quality standard regulations.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the United States Congress and the Canadian Parliament to appropriate full funding for Great Lakes sea lamprey control and research programs.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the concept of the states establishing a fund to provide additional, stable, long term financing of Great Lakes research, monitoring and clean-up activities; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the Great Lakes Governors and a steering committee of the Great Lakes Protection Fund to provide for environmental group and public representation on the steering committee, the Board of Trustees and on all other entities created to oversee or administer the Fund; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that this endowment fund not be invested in corporations or municipalities or bond issues of those entities who have a record of violations of environmental laws; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that contributions to the Fund and disbursements from it should supplement and not replace direct state or federal funding of Great Lakes research, monitoring, or clean-up activites, and that such fudning be consistent with the "polluter pays" principle as adopted by Canada and the Unisted States as members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Great Lakes Governors should agree to perform and make public an annual audit of each state's spending on Great Lakes research, monitoring, and clean-up activities, including the expenditure of federal grant funds, so as to demonstrate that contributions to or from the Fund are not replacing direct state or federal funding of Great Lakes research, monitoring, or clean-up activities; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that the governing body of the Fund with the advice of policymakers throughout the basin should establish clear priorities as to the types of projects eligible for funding and that, within those priority categories, funding decisions should be made exclusively on their scientific merit; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the participation of Ontario and Quebec in the Fund or the establishment of a companion fund in Ontario and Quebec; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that all research, literature review leading to that research, and monitoring data be made readily available to the public.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the following recommendations with respect to the Agreement, as well as such others as shall be developed by task forces of Great Lakes United, be brought to the attention of the International Joint Commission, the Governments of the United States and Canada, the Governors and Premiers of Great Lakes States and Provinces, members of Gongress and Parliament, the legislators of said states and provinces, and other interested parties.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, THAT Great Lakes United reaffirms ite support of the policies of the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and opposes any weakening of the Agreement. Great Lakes United will continue to work towards increase public participation in the implementation and review of the Agreement and offers the following recommendations which apply to any opportunity to strengthen the Agreement by technical Amendment or other means:

1. The Parties ehould adopt an integrated approach to protecting both water quality and water quantity in the Great Lakee Basin.
2. The IJC strengthen its commitment to an ecosystem approach by developing specific programs to coneider the interactione between environrental components, ae well aa the effects of chemical and other contarinante on thoee interactions.
3. The existing Agreement's policies for the virtual elimination" and "zero discharge of persistent toxic subetancee ahould be retained in the Agreement, but they ehould be clarified.
4. The Great Lakes States and Provinces and non-government bodies should be urged to develop environmentally sound alternative methods for the disposal of hazardous waetes. Great Lakes United also encourages the Great Lakes states and provinces to follow the lead of New York State in implementing a phased reduction of the landfilling of hazardous organic waetes, as an initial step towards better policies that do not degrade the environmental quality of the Great Lakes Basin.
5. The IJC and the Parties enter into diecuesions for the purpose of including provisions to protect the Great Lakes Ecoeystem from any potentially adverse

Et Cetera.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United urges its member organizations to take an active role in the hearing(s) nearest them. Member organizations are urged to use the hearings and the accompanying hot-spot tours to:
1) Help present our case to the governments that we need a strong Agreement to attack toxics and clean up Areas of concern.
2) Help build a popular and political constituency to defend the Agreement from being weakened and/or dismantled.
3) Increase public awareness of the severity of problems in Areas of Concern.
4) Develop a renewed commitment of citizens and governments to full implementation of the Agreement's policy and objectives, specifically the elimination of discharges of toxic subtances.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, where the current effluent level of a discharge is below the permitted level for a particular parameter, any permit reissued shall require the current discharge level to be the new permitted level; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the wildlife criteria shall be designed to protect the most ecologically sensitive species; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the human health criteria shall be designed to protect high risk populations, including heavy consumers of fish and sensitive groups such as newborns and the elderly; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, as part of the implementation procedures, any permit which regulates discharges of bioaccumulative, persistent compounds shall include a sunset provision to phase out the use of the compound; therefore achieving zero discharge; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, any new or reissued permit must include a pollution prevention plan developed by the discharger and approved by the permitting agency; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, all aquatic, wildlife and human criteria shall be expanded to include protection from reproductive, neurological, and other non-cancer effects.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the delegates assembled for the 10th Annual Meeting of Great Lakes United, this 3rd day of May, 1992, that:

1) The lndiana Water Pollution Control Board, IWPCB, be requested to adopt proposed revisions to Indiana's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, NPDES, rule, 327 IAC 5, as expeditiously as possible to implement limits in NPDES permits for discharges to the State's surface waters which will assure standards In 327 IAC 2-1 that adequately protect human, terrestrial, and aquatic life from the toxic Impacts of water pollutants are met: AND

2) The IWPCB Include In those revisions, a requirement to phase out as expeditiously as possible the use of mixing or any dilution allowances for discharges of both the 43 pollutants annotated in Indiana's new water quality standards rule "to be bloconcentrating and of concern" and to sunset these and any other chemicals currently Identified and any other pollutants cunently Identified by the U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative as "Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern," AND

3) The IWPCB include in those revisions, a requirement to employ alternative techniques, such as monitoring of internal processes, caged biota studies, or regular analysis of tissues of resident fish species for detecting and restricting discharges of pollutants whose water'quality based effluent limits are below levels of detection or quantitation; AND

4) The WPCB retain the State's ability In those revisions to enforce the Level of Detection as a compliance point in NPDES permits when water quality based effluent limits are below the Level of Detection; AND

5) To prevent further loading of pollutants in impaired waters, the IWPCB prohibit in those revisions, discharges of Intake water containing concentrations of a background pollutant in excess of its water quality based effluent limit to receiving waters that are not from the same source as the intake water; AND

6) The IWPCB retain the variance provision in the new water quality standards rule, 327 IAC 2-1 -8.8, and in revisions to the NPDES rule, that will place a burden of proof on a discharger to make the maximum effort possible to meet a water quality based effluent limit for a pollutant, through reducing, eliminating or treating a pollutant in the effluent, before being eligible for consideration of a variance from meeting that water quality based effluent limit; AND

7) To cleanup Indiana's impaired surface waters, the IWPCB not add criteria for variances to the new water quality standards rule or the NPDES rule revisions that would include conditions in the receiving stream, such as background pollutants, low flow, other physical features or human induced conditions as grounds for considering variances from meeting water quality standards.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United petition Congress to increase the funding for federal Great Lakes research programs because of their losses due to inflation since 1980; these programs include, but are not limited to:

(1) NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
(2) EPA's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, Michigan;
(3) Great Lakes research programs funded through the United States Commerce Department's Sea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region;
(4) Great Lakes research programs funded through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and
(5) NOAA's Great Lakes Research Coordinating Office as specified in the 1987 Clean Water Act.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United petition Congress to increase the funding for federal Great Lakes research programs because of their losses due to inflation since 1980; these programs incfude, but are not limited to:

1. NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
2. EPA's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, Michigan;
3. Great Lakes research programs funded through-the United. States Commerce Department's Sea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region;
4. US. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fisheries Center - Great Lakes, Arbor, Michigan
5. NOAA's Great Lakes Research Coordinating Office as specified in the 1987 Clean Water Act.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United support the full annual eleven million dollars funding level authorized in Congress to implement the Great Lakes Amendment to the Clean Water Act.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United opposes setting the precedent of shipping radioactive waste metals and materials on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United firmly opposes the shipping of any hazardous material in ice conditions;

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United strongly recommends that the following conditions be met as it pertains to the movement of hazardous cargo on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River:
--An annual plan requiring routine joint binational federal, state and provincial spill drills/preparedness exercise in real-time scenarios and at varying times of year is in place and properly funded
--Thorough, independent assessment of equipment and personnel available to respond/contain/clean-up a spill (of any type and at any time of year) on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence
--Improvements to cross-border coordination and communication.
--A system is in place and operational providing advance notification of local responders e.g. county/local emergency and/or fire departments when hazardous or nuclear materials transported through their communities via waterway
--Annual, public reporting of hazardous materials shipped via the seaway (materials and volume).