Resolution before Great Lakes United membership in the 2011 Annual Meeting. 

 Resolution before Great Lakes United membership for the 2011 Annual Meeting. 

BE IT RBSOLVED THAT Great Lakes United should press state, provincial and federal Governments to provide for:

A. Long term adequate funding of research into the transport, fate and toxicity of substancee entering the Great Lakes from point and non-point sources with special attention to the need for long term adequate funding for the BPA Grosse Ile and Duluth Laboratories and NOAA GLERL Laboratory in Ann Arbor.

B. Increased funding for monitoring, investigation and enforcement to regulate the point and non-point source discharges of toxic pollutants in general and persistent, bioaccumulative and potentially carcinogenic substances like dioxin in particular.

C. Increased public access to relevant information.

D. Honoring Great Lakee Water Quality Agreement commitments.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United should inventory and rank toxic and hazardous substance problems in the Great Lakes Basin.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United press for etricter controls on the point and non-point source discharges of toxic substances into the Great Lakes Ecosystem.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United promote alternatives to the generation and discharge of toxic and hazardous substances, with special focus on the need for the development of a comprehensive resource recovery and waste management plan within the Great Lakes Basin.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United create a centralized repository/clearing-house for information relevant to the goals and objectives of Great Lakes United and its member organizations, readily accessible to its members.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United is opposed to the wholesale disposal of these lands to achieve short term objectives of questionable value.

IN AS MUCH AS Land and Water Conservation Funds have been appropriated for the acquisition and development of the Great Lakes National Parks and for acquisition and development of urban parks.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United stands strongly in support of the release of these funds to acquire and complete these parksystems as intended.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT land use changes which would adversely affect the health of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin should be discouraged through economic and regulatory means.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United opposes such land use changes outside the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin which would result in the transport of Great Lakes water beyond the physical limits of the Basin water shed.

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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the areat Lakes United Board of Directors be charged with the responsibility of establishing an ongoing working body responsible for the promotion of environmental awareness, either through the establishment of an ongoing task force or through a formal working relationship with Great Lakes Tomorrow and other related educational organizations.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United at its annual meeting in Toronto, May 13, 1984, opposes any filling of Lake Michigan for the 1992 World's Fair.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT two (2) "toxic hot spots" in the Great Lakes be chosen, based on the following criteria:

• binational concern involved;
• the situation offers opportunity for precedent-setting policy;
• the cases will effectively serve to clarify current management policies and practices;
• active locally-led group(s) can be identified.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United work with the locally based group(s) to obtain information about the case, identify issues of concern, share this information with interested persons from other states and provinces and provide background to the local group by whatever assistance may be captured from GLU's efforts.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United urges the revision of the existing Great Lakes Basin Compact of 1955, with emphasis on powers to regulate diversion issues or endorses the establishment of a new compact with theee powers;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United encourage the International Joint Commiseion to exercise ite authority over Lake Michigan as part of the international Great Lakes system by applying the provieions of the Boundary Waters Treaty; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT a Great Lakee Management plan be developed which demonstrates that existing water resources must remain within the baein states to address current and projected economic and environmental needs.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United reaffirm its Navigation Resolution of 1983; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the Navigation Task Force undertake the preparation of a poeition paper representing the Great Lakee United view of commercial navigation use of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence. In the preparation of this poaition paper, the task force will consider the need to place the issue of navigation on the Great Lakes within the wider context of social, economic and environmental factors--the ecosystem approach. Specifically, the task force shall address navigation issues, including:

• user fees;
• additional locks and channel widening;
• harbor and port development and improvement;
• coordination of research between the United States and Canada;
• winter navigation end season extension; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, with these considerations in mind the task force shall develop a Great Lakes United action strategy for effective protection of the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the task force shall submit its poaition paper and recomrendations to the Great Lakes United Annual Meeting in 1985, with recorrendationa for inmediate action forwarding to the Board of Directors in the interim.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakea United supports these provisions in the 1985 Farm Bill;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United supports the reforms of existing federal farm programs t a remove subeidies for production of surplus crops on wetlands drained and cleared after 1981.

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

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