NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United enthusiastically supports full rehabilitation and restoration of the native coaster brook trout in Lake Superior and its tributary waters;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That GLU calls upon all citizens of the Lake Superior Basin and especially on all of the state, provincial, First Nation, and tribal governments in the Basin to expeditiously take all of the necessary steps to assure that their respective fishery management agencies both can and do implement plans leading to the maximum possible rehabilitation and restoration of the native coaster brook trout to the waters and tributaries of Lake Superior;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it calls on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and especially on its Lake Superior Committee to modify their Joint Strategic Plan, Fish Community Objectives and other policies to accommodate the maximum possible restoration of the native coaster brook trout to the waters and tributaries of Lake Superior;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it calls on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and its Lake Huron and Lake Michigan Committees to evolve plans for the restoration of coaster brook trout in Lakes Huron and Michigan;

AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that it calls on the federal governments of the United States and Canada, especially their wildlife and environmental agencies, on public and private charitable foundations, and on North American private environmental and conservation organizations to support, to undertake and to provide resources for a broad initiative to conduct the research, to restore the habitat in and the hnctionality of rivers and coastal areas, to develop the restoration stocking capacity, and to implement the regulations that are necessary to rehabilitate and restore the stocks of the unique coaster brook trout to the waters of the Upper Great Lakes.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United opposes HR 1330 and S 1463 and endorses HR 4255 as an important, fair legislative tool to halt further loss of wetlands in the US.; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United will communicate this position to all U.S. Senators and Representatives from Great Lakes states within the next month.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United calls upon the Congress of the United States to proceed deliberately in reauthorizing the Clean Water Act, and to oppose the numerous bills that would weaken wetland protection provisions of the Act, particularly Section 404; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Congress explicitly include wetland protection in the Clean Water Act Goal Statement, and that the current regulatory definition of waters of the United
States be amended to presume that all waters and wetlands are susceptible to use in interstate commerce; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the list of activities regulated by Section 404 of the Clean Water Act be expanded to include all activities that may damage or degrade wetlands such as draining, dredging, channelizing, flooding, placement of floating and piling supported structures; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Section 401 should be amended to expressly broaden the protections provided by this section to include wetlands, and direct states to address physical and biological alterations of aquatic areas, as well as chemical pollution; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Nationwide permit program should be substantially revised to control ongoing cumulative wetland losses, specifically to (1) eliminate Nationwide General Permit No. 26, (2) comply with Section 404 (b) (1) guidelines, and (3) prohibit using multiple general permits to avoid the acreage limitations of other general or individual permit requirements.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United calls on the Federal Cabinet to immediately overrule the Minister's decision and direct her to make preparations for a full, independent panel environmental assessment hearing to fully address the health and social concerns expressed by the public.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United, at its 1994 annual meeting in Buffalo, New York, petition Congress to restore full funding provided by the Non-Indigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to ensure the completion of current research programs designed to develop strategies to understand, deal with, and perhaps reduce the econornidecological impacts of the zebra mussel, AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United call upon all its member organizations to write their Congresspersons and members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees urging them to support the restoration of full funding for zebra,mussel research in the Great Lakes.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that GREAT LAKES UNITED will work to support the establishment and implementation of the Great Legacy Program to preserve natural areas as reservoirs of biodiversity and protect the best examples of biodiversity in aquatic and terrestrial sites located in pristine or restored areas of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that GLU strongly urges the Council of Great Lakes Governors to provide regional political leadership necessary to establish and implement the Great Legacy program, a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin-wide biodiversity conservation strategy; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that GLU urges the states and provinces in the Great Lakes Basin as well as local units of government to take expeditious and appropriate steps to support the establishment and implementation of the Great Legacy program;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be conveyed to the Governors and Premlers of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Basin and the office of the Council of Great Lakes Governors.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the member organizations of Great Lakes United encourage provincial, state, and federal agencies and academic institutions to proceed expeditiously with such research; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United and its member organizations request their regulatory agencies to implement, enforce and monitor voluntary and required actions by shippers and other users of Great Lakes resources, to prevent the further introduction of such exotic organisms; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that members of Great Lakes United organizations, and all users of Great Lakes resources in general, be encouraged to take all appropriate individual actions to prevent the further spread of such exotic organisms in the Great Lakes region.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakea United provide expertise and assistance to achieve the goals of erosion control, future State ownerahip and long-term management.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United encourage the Federal Governmental Agencies, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the New York Department of Parka and Recreation to apply ecologically aound methods to control erosion and to further enhance the recreational, fisheries and other natural benefits of the island.

NOW BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Great Lakes Unlted supports passage of HR 4045 and will communicate this position to Congressmen from the Great Lakes states.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the following policies:

1. Each government jurisdiction shall set up programmes to remove household and commercial/industrial hazardous wastes, as well as infectious wastes, from the municipal solid waste stream.

2a. The governments within the Great Lakes Basin shall set a minimum 50% target for removal of household and commercia1 industria1 materials from the municipal solid waste stream through reduction, reuse and recycling methods, including composting, within the next ten years.

2b. State and provincial governments shall establish programs to assist in the development of markets for used oil, glass, paper, metal tires and other materials.  Procurement of products made from these materials shall be encouraged wherever possible.

2c. The local, state/provincial and federal governments shall train appropriate personnel to oversee, implement and coordinate the above programs.

3. Within the next three years, each Province and State within the Great Lakes Basin shall ass legislation requiring re cling of household and industrial / commercial wastes in order to achieve the targets in Section 2.

4a. The appropriate government jurisdictions shall pass packaging legislation so as to reduce excess and non-reusable and non-recyclable packaging and to promote recyclable packaging.

4b. Plastic packagin material shall be labelled as to composition so as to enhance recyclability.

5a. A programme to develop, institute and reach the minimum 50% target for reduction, reuse and recycling of wastes must be attained before new landfills and incinerators are considered for wastes.

5b. Recyclable materials shall be exempt from any flow control restrictions.

6. The government jurisdictions shall provide adequate funding through the budgetary process to ensure that the above actions can be implemented.

BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United diligently campaign for the reclassification of Class C nuclear wastes from low level to high level nuclear waste.