THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the 1986 Annual Meeting of Great Lakes United formally endoraea the document and the following seven-point program recoamendations:

1. Each state and province should formally incorporate a water registration system for all users of Great Lakes waters. This mandatory registration system should include amounts of water returned to the Great Lakes system and in what quality. In addition, this system should not be used to legitimize existing diversion. We should not accept thie registration system as a basis for "grand-fathering" all existing diversions and consumptive uses.

2. Establish present consumptive use needs in the basin based on the registration data and develop projected future consumptive use needs under a variety of economic growth scenarios. This must be coordinated with the establishment of a data base that understand the quantity and quality of water available to the Great Lakes Basin.

3. Detailed analysis of the environmental, social and economic impacts of water diversion, and incorporate those findings into a Public Health and Welfare case. Economic impacts could only be incorporated as they relate to the health and welfare of the citizenry, to avoid economic protectionism as in the El Paso case.

4. Advocate water conservation/improvement programe within and outside the Great Lakes Basin.

5. Develop state and provincial prohibitive diversion legislation based on the Public Health and Welfare case.

6. Great Lakes jurisdicitions would defend the legislative ban on diversion of Great Lakes water out of the basin in courts based on the Public Health and Welfare case. If the legal case was loat, Great Lakes jurisdictions could then incorporate a permitting system for
water withdrawals.

7. Great Lakes jurisdictions would work with national and-international leaders to develop and implement anti-diversion legislation and agreement 8.

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 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) BPA's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Isle, Michigan;
(3) Great Lakea research programs funded through the United States Commerce Department'e Sea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region; and
(4) Great Lakes research program funded through the U . S . Fish and Wildlife Service.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United formally endorses the findings of the Toxic Air Pollution in the Great Lakes Basin: A Call for Action; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United participate in the ongoing public participation process on the proposed Canadian Environmental Protection Act, dealing with the control of toxic air emissions;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the member organizations of Great Lakes United will work to develop an implementation strategy for the regulatory and research recommendation of the report; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United support federal legislative field hearings in the Great Lakes Basin on the issue and amendments to federal Clean Air Acts to carry out the goals of the report.

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.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United objects to the City of Erie's proposed zoning regulations. GLU advocates amendments to the proposed zoning package which adhere to the following guidelines:
1. The zoning should protect the environmental health of Presque Isle Harbor.
2. The zoning should guarantee maximum public access.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that GLU requests that the U.S. EPA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the federal Coastal Zone Management Program administrators, and others, as deemed appropriate, investigate Pennsylvania's implementation of the Coastal Zone Managment Program in Erie; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that GLU petition the International Joint Commission to add Presque Isle Bay, Harbor, and the area surrounding Erie , Pennsylvania , to the IJC's list of Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes Basin.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United petition the government of Ontario to reverse its decision not to designate this project and to formally designate this project under the Environmental  Assessment Act or to establish a commission under Public Inquiries Act to suspend approvals process and to report within 60 days.

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United work with the Friends of the Magpie River to ensure these environmental concerns are addressed and no increased diversion are permitted into the Great Lakes Basin.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United actively seek to stop overflow dredging.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United includes all radioactive wates in the definition of hazardous or toxic wastes; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes new construction, and/or completion/start-up of nuclear power plants within the Great Lakes Basin, and that those plants already built within the Basin be phased out as soon as possible.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the creation of a Detroit-Windsor Air Pollution Board, with full public articipation to set standards for air, and water, and leachate in the transboun ary Great Lakes area; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that both federal, state, and provincial governments fund a major programme of public and consumer education, and increased support be given to localized and private efforts to reduce the use of toxic substances and to control their storage and disposal along with an emphasis on recycling as called for in the IJC Third Biennial Report; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ontario's new regulation 308 include specific recommendations for dealing with the effects of transboundary air pollution on the ambient air quality standard for Windsor and include an Ambient Air Quality Report similar to the industrial discharge reports for Ontario waterways.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that regulations with uniform numerical criteria common to both federal jurisdictions be established to determine the extent of contamination in sediment and therefore the options for disposal and treatment of that sediment; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that such criteria not only measure concentrations of contaminants in sediment, but that they also take into account the cumulative effects of multiple contaminant(s), the organic content and sediment size distribution, the movement (partitioning) of contaminants between sediment and water column, and chronic as well as acute effects on biota (bioaccummulation); AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that citizens be included in the decision-making process for developing said criteria as well as in reviewing all drafts of regulations including the final criteria.