Therefore be it resolved that the Canada/United States Air Quality Agreement strengthened by the parties to the agreement to include annexes that include objectives addressing:

• Nitrogen oxide emissions from stationary sources in Canada and the United States
• Volatile organic compounds emissions from stationary and mobile souces in Canada and the United States
• Air toxics emissions from stationary sources in Canada and the United States
• Particulate matter emissions from stationary and mobile sources in Canada and the United States
• Greenhouse gases emissions from stationary and mobile sources in Canada and the United State

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.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United set up a transboundary working group in conjunction with the Zero Discharge Alliance to develop a strategy for implementation of the air toxics provisions of the Clean Air Act and similar Canadian clean air initiatives and strategies for applying the policy of zero discharge to air toxics in accordance with Annex 15 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
 

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United emphatically reaffirms its resolution on incineration of municipal solid waste as adopted at the Annual Meeting on May 18, 1986, and opposes the construction of the Detroit Resource Recovery Facility unless it is equipped with state of the art technology including a baghouse and dry scrubber;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that any incinerator must not be allowed to operate without a proper emission monitoring system for toxic pollutants in place, the results of which must be available to governments and publics in both the United States and Canada;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an integrated waste management strategy must be developed with an emphasis on, and articulation of plans to implement recycling and waste reduction programs. Any such strategy should contain mechanisms to provide for public participation in all stages of development.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that any new municipal waste incinerators not be built until the affected area has exhausted all efforts to reduce at least 50% of its waste through recycling, recovery, reuse, reduction, composting, and other alternative waste management strategies other than landfilling, and only then can such facitilities be built if they meet the standards of lowest achievable emission rates.

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United members continue to urge Mayor Coleman Young, the City of Detroit, and Governor Blanchard to support these resolutions and the organization consider joining the appropriate legal case which would force state of the art pollution control devices on the plant.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec to develop a comprehensive strategy to control emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that such a strategy should include the following elements:
1. Reduction of volatility of gasoline sold in Ontario and Quebec between May and September;
2. Tougher tailpipe emission standards on new motor vehicles sold in Canada;
3. Mandatory in-use venicle inspection and maintenance progrzms; and
4. Further controls on emissions of volatile organic compounds from stationary sources.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes proposed legislation in Michigan and elsevrhere in the Great Lakes Basin that would allow toxic incinerator ash to be disposed of in municipal solid waste landfills.

THBREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United, assembled in annual meeting of Way 17-19, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, endorses and urges immediate implementation of "A Proposal for a Program to Study Atmospheric Loading of Toxic Chemicals to the Great Lakes: Report to Great
Lakes Environmental Administration, August 1984; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports necessary federal, state-and provincial f.unding needed to achieve the proposal's recommendations for monitoring, research on gaseous and dry deposition sampling, and pollution source inventories.

SPECIFICALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakee United endorses:
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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 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 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.

Therefore be it resolved that the governments of Canada and the United States develop a Great Lakes inventory and indepth assessment of contaminated sediment sites in the Great Lakes Watershed by 1994, and

Be it further resolved that both governments should use compatible assessment techniques and units of measure.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that there be an immediate ban on the construction of all and any new in water diked disposal facilities in the Great Lakes; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all existing confined disposal facilities undergo a detailed review and evaluation to determine the current integrity of their barriers, such review to be carried out by appropriate government agencies in each country; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a protocol for ongoing monitoring for leaking, discharges, and progress impacts on the surrounding ecosystem be established by December, 1988 for all currently existing confined disposal facilities and that monitoring be implemented at all sites immediately, even as the protocals are being established; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that an action plan for the removal and/or closure and remediation of all confined disposal facilities be developed and that remediation of confined disposal facilities in Areas of Concern be incorporated into the Remedial Action Plan for those Areas, and that this be done with the objective of determining ecosystem-positive methods of final treatment of the contiaminated sediments involved; AND

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