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, in keeping with the virtual elimination goal and zero discharge policy of the GLWQA, Great Lakes United urges the governments of Canada and the United States to choose methods for destroying stockpiles of PCBs and other chlorinated hazardous waste that meet the following critera:

1. No incineration of chlorinated hazardous waste
2. Alternative, non-incineration technologies must be evaluated on the basis of a 100% destruction efficiency standard
3. Alternative, non-incineration technologies must be closed loop systems
4. Alternative, non-incineration technologies must not be used as an alternative to banning and stopping the generation of hazardous waste.  These technologies must never be used as an excuse not to meet the IJC's goals of zero discharge. Alternative, non-incineration technologies must only be used for the destruction of historic stockpiles of chlorinated hazardous waste, and must never be used for control of process waste.
5. Alternative, non-incineration technologies must not themselves  generate persistent toxic substances or otherwise threaten or endanger human health or the environment
6. All alternative, non-incineration destruction methods should be properly and comprehensively evaluated before applications are approved and their use tightly regulated and controlled by federal, state, provincial and municipal authorities
7. Destruction, transportation and/or handling of these substances shall not pose additional risk to human health and/or the envionment
8. All proposals must pay particular attention to occupational health and safety issues.  Potential risks from occupational exposure should be monitored and fully disclosed to all employees.
9. All communities and workers have a right to fully participate and accept or reject destruction proposals.
10. Potential host communities should be fully consulted before implementation of destruction programmes, with all available data fully disclosed.  Emergency response plans shall be developed with host community input.
11. Destructio nof wates should be paid for by the generator of such wastes.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
1) That Great Lakes United endorses the recommendations, condusions and substance of the IJC's "Seventh Biennial Report on Great Lakes Water Quality,"
2) That Great Lakes United endorses the proposal to create a multi-organization, Great Lakes Basin campaign to sunset chlorine~ontainingin dustrial feedstocks; that it seeks active and equal participation in this effort from both professional environmental groups and grassroots, community-based groups; and that it will endeavor to provide as much leadership and coordination to this effort as is appropriate and acceptable to other participants in the campaign.
3) That the policy framework that will govern Great Lakes United's participation in a multi-organization campaign to sunset chlorinecontaining industrial feedstocks includes the recommendations, conclusions and substance of: the IJC's fifth, Sixth and Seventh Biennial Reports; the "Chlorine Case Study" submitted to the IJC Virtual Elimination Task Force; and the Citizens' Presentation to the IJC Seventh Biennial Meeting.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that all GLUE fundraising purchases/items (teeshirts, calendars, stationery etc.) shall be ecologically fiiendly products (i.e. unbleached teeshirts and chlorine free, recycled paper products).

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, whenever possible, all items shall be union-made.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United supports the goals of the Green Vehicle Challenge, a campaign which challenges vehicle manufacturers to produce vehicles in the near-term that meet a strong green standard, meeting the following criteria:

• Fuel Efficiency, 1.5 time s the fleet average for that vehicle's class
• Tailpipe Emissions, meeting California's ULEV standard's or better
• Clean Manufacturing, that includes best-in-class paintinglcoating, elimination of
• substances of concern and design for recyclability/recycled content

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that GLU supports a pledge campaign to collect commitments from vehicle consumers and fleet purchasers to purchase green vehicles if made available;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that GLU support policy initiatives, such as financial incentives and extended product responsibility, to promote the goals of the campaign;

AND BE IT FlNALLY RESOLVED that GLU supports the development of transition strategy to maintain and create jobs in the Great Lakes region while moving to greener vehicles.

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

1. Stringent emissions standards should be developed in each government jurisdiction consistent with the 1987 Amendments to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; as stated in the Agreement, these standards should be based on the ability of substances, "singly or in synergistic or additive combination with another substances, to have an acute or chronic toxic effects on aquatic, animal or human life."

2. Best Available Technology, regardless of cost, should be the basis for licensing hazardous waste conversion facilities.

3. If the Best Available Technology cannot meet stringent health and environment-based stnadards, the waste conversion facility should not be built.

4. The size of waste conversion facilities should be built on such a scale that once waste reduction and source se aration occur, the facilities do not require additional sources of hazar i ous waste to maintain them.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the following policies:
1. No hazardous wastes (whether pretreated or not) should be placed in landfills.
2. Above-ground storage of pretreated hazardous wastes under carefully controlled situations should be substituted for below-ground landfills.

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.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United:

• Urges the International Joint Commission to advocate strongly with the U.S. EPA and Environment Canada to adopt strong rules which eliminate the discharge of persistent toxic compounds from medical waste incinerators,
• Urges the International Joint Commission to advocate for and work with the health care industry to adopt a materials policy which will lead to zero discharge of persistent toxic compounds, and
• Urges the U.S. EPA to adopt strong rules to eliminate the formation of dioxin and the release of mercury by medical waste incinerators, and to encourage the health care industry to adopt a materials policy which will lead to zero discharge of persistent toxic substances.

THEREFORE, 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; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United make the reclassification of Class C low level radioactive waste to high level a top priority issue.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes Untted urges the Ontario Government to drop its plans to build a hazardous waste incinerator and landfill;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the Ontario Government to divert the money it is now putting into the OWMC lnto waste reduction activities.