THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the member organizations of Great Lakes United charge the Board of Directors to continue to designate a week to be called "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Week" (GLW) for the purpose of educating citizens about the basin's hietory, ecology, and resource management issues; and to focus attention upon the Great Lakes ecoeyetem; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that since GLW encompasses all the educational goals of Great Lakes United, it should become a plenary seesion agenda item at the Great Lakes United Annual Meeting for ae long as Great Lakes United continues to proclaim Great Lakes Week; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that sember organizations of Great Lakes United take a coordinating role in organizing events for euch a week in their respective communities; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that each Great Lakes United region designate a repreeentative to coordinate activities within their own region; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that in order for a region to designate a GLW representative, Great Lakes regions of Great Lakes United need to meet to deeignate a representative; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Great Lakes Week Task Force of Great Lakes United designate individuals to obtain proclamations of each a week by Governors, Premiers, the President, the Prime Ministers and legislative bodies throughout the Great Lakes Basin; and

Et Cetera

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakee United actively promote new federal, state, provincial and local regulations to suspend the transportation of high level nuclear waste within the Great Lakes Basin until such a time that the above concerns are fully addressed and the safe transport of the fuel can be assured.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United:

- opposes any attempts to reduce the scope of the Section 404 program or the protections now given wetlands by the U.S. EPAss 404(b) (1) Guidelines;
- supports reforms of existing federal farm programe to remove subsidies for production of taurplua crops on wetlande drained and cleared after 1981;
- recommends the elimination of federal, state, and provincial tax incentives for draining and clearing of wetlande.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes B.R. 1519 or any such legislation to fund the atudy of a Lake Erie-Ohio River Canal Project; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that it is inappropriate to fund studies on far-reaching projecta inconsistent with the Great Lakes Charter when other federal qualitative and quantitative research prograre for the Greet Lakes Basin are being crippled in the Halls of Congrees.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Great Lakes United navigation task force should be broadened and continue its work for the purpose of:

(1) investigating the critical issues which have been advanced in the position paper and any others which may arise; and

(2) work along with Great Lakes United members in the development and refining of an action strategy for implementation of Great Lakes United resolutions on commercial navigation; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United Navigation's Task Force-promote the following recommendations:

The establishment of uniform and coordinated regulatory standards and rules governing commercial navigation on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River System which takes the unique environmental, 'social, climatic, economic conditions of the Basin into account. Elements to be coneidered in these uniform regulatory initiatives are:

1. limitation of hazardous goods transported on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River System to ice free and good weather conditions;

2. and in some instances, completely banning the transportation of some kinds of hazardous material, such as radiotoxic material;

3. the enactment of provisions which would impart absolute liability for carriers and shippers of hazardous materials;

4 . the application of stringent safety requirements (which would equal thoee most stringent standards now existing in the basin);

5. the mandatory development of proven containment and clean-up provisions and mechanisms

6. the creation of coordinated mechanisms to ensure the proper monitoring and enforcement of the uniform regulations between Canada and the U.S

7. further research ott the ecological and human health effects of various substances and materials and the working toward a more specific and uniform definition of "hazardous" and "dangerous" material.

THEREFOREs BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United supports water conservation planning, programs, and measures in the Great Lakes region and in more arid regions in the U.S. and Canada, not only for present needs but also for use by future generations; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes the conversion of additional arid lands to agricultural lands through irrigation.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakea United exprasses its outrage that the Grand Canal project could even be seriously considered by Canadian private interest groups and public officials and opposes any study or further considerations of the proposal.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United does not endorse the principle of quantitative risk assessment as the sole basis for eetabliahing environmental standards for carcinogens;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United also recognizes that the quantitative evaluation of data may be useful in sore circumstances, such as the prioritization of environmentally significant chemicals;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United encourages the development of alternative rethoda to set environrental standards for carcinogens, such as goals of non-detectable discharges and lowest achievable discharge linite, using Best Available Technology, where they prove to be more protective to human health and the environment;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United encourages the State, Provincial and Federal government and the IJC to coordinate the development of standards and guidelines consistent with the principles articulated in the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement or any revised agreement.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great LakeS United encourages the State, Provincial and Federal governments as well as industries that discharge wates into the Great Lakes, to expand their efforts to curtail the pollution of the Great Lakes by examing source reduction and source elimination technologies, and any other environmentally sound alternatives for waste disposal.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges Congress to reauthorize a Clean Water Act which
1. Maintains a strong industrial "pre-treatment" program to control toxic substances and limit their exposure to the ambient environment;
2. Maintains the current five-year permit period for National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits, allowing for timely review and updating of these permits to reflect changes in environmental conditions and industrial processes;
3. Contains an "anti-backsliding provision to encourage rehabilitation of water systems and not Just maintaining levels of "acceptable degradation";
4. Develops a non-point pollution control program to begin to address the source of at least 50% of the United States water pollution;
5. Adequately funds publicly owned sewage treatment facilities;
6. Enforces wetlands protection under section 404 of the Clean Water Act by transferring authority for wetlands protection from the Corps of Engineers to a more appropriate federal agency;
7. Identifies and seeks to initiate clean-up of toxic hot-spots in water systems;
8. Contains a provision to coordinate research and management in the Great Lakes Basin and recognizes the Great Lakes as a national treasure.

THBREPORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakee United supports promulgation and implementation of the Greet Lakee Toxic Substances Control Agreement;

BE IT FURTHBR RESOLVED, that U.S. and Canadian citizen involvement in the implementation and review of the Great Lakes Toxic Substance Control Agreement is essential to the control of toxic pollutants entering the Great Lakes System;

BB IT FURTHBR RESOLVED, that U.S. and Canadian citizen involvement is the design of any Basin-wide agreement including, at a minimum, consultation and responce as provided for in the agreement, is essential to the control of toxic pollutants; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that the success of the Great Lakes Toxic Substance Control Agreement in controlling the entry of toxic pollutants into the Great Lakes system is dependent upon continuing public involvement.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United requests the:

United States House of Representative Committee on Energy and Commerce; and
the United states Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; and
the Canadian Special Committee on Acid Rain; and
the Ontario Legislative Committee on Environment,
to hold (oversight) hearings throughout the Great Lakes Basin on the issue of toxic airborne deposition.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOVLED THAT those states with federally approved Coastal Management Programs under the DZMA should work expeditiously to significantly improve their Programs, and that pertinent Canadian federal and provincial jurisdictions vigorously undertake protection of costal areas.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT states without federally approved Coastal Management Programs under the CZMA should make the creation and approval of a Program a top priority; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED THAT Coastal Management Programs should include strict erosion set-back regulations, a coherent policy overseeing commercial and residential lakefront development and assured access for the public to lakefront areas; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT serious water quality issues, including but not limited to toxic pollution, acidic deposition, heavy metals and other pollutants associated with development, be address by the Great Lakes states so that water-dependant industries, and recreational and aesthetic uses of the Lakes can continue; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED THAT coastal barriers not presently protected by state or federal laws, and those that are proposed for inclusion in the Coastal Barriers Resources System, be included in the System.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United endorse the establishment of a US-Canadian joint Coastal Management program.