I am writing on behalf of Great Lakes United regarding the proposed rule to list the silver carp(Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) as an injurious species of wildlife under the federal Lacey Act, as published in the June 27, 2003 issue of the Federal Register (Vol. 68, No. 141), RIN 1018-AI87. Great Lakes United supports: Listing of silver carp as an injurious species of wildlife under the federal Lacey Act; expansion of the Lacey Act listing to include other Asian carp species, including the bighead, grass and black carp; removal of species of carp where currently stocked or traded in the U.S.

Scientists have been forecasting the introduction of zebra mussels to North America for over a century, and yet these alarm bells were ignored for decades. T.F Nalepa and D.W. Schlosser summarize several of these warnings in the opening of Zebra Mussels- Biology, Impacts and Control (1993, Lewis Publishers, CRC Press Inc, Boca Raton, FL, 810 pp.) Quotes and reference citations from the book are listed in this document.

An overview of key milestones in the development of ballast water management in the Great Lakes region.

A list of media contacts from commercial and sport fisheries.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of Great Lakes United oppose the
construction of this pipeline.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United call on the Canadian
Government to adopt the SCFAIT recommendation #8 to reject the burning of MOX he1 and failing that, that no shipment of MOX he1 for testing be undertaken into Ontario until all the above concerns are fully addressed in comprehensive, thorough public hearings held by an independent panel of experts.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Great Lakes United spare no effort to convince the
parties that all five Great Lakes must have LAMPS and that Lake Huron with all its waters be protected by a Lakewide Management Plan as called for in the GLWQA.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United, in concert with its member
groups, will exert pressure upon the federal government of Canada to ensure that the following elements are in place prior to passing the revised regulation into law: Acute lethality tests based on both rainbow trout and Daphnia magna; Lowered limits for pollutants on the MMLER list of substances; A legal link between the Environmental Effects Monitoring Program and the regulation; A national toxicity registry to give Canadians access to important monitoring information.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United commends the U.S. Government for
recognizing the importance of sea lamprey control and the need to pursue alternatives to lampricides; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United commends the Canadian Federal Government for its increased commitment to the program; BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that Great Lakes United urges the Congress of the United States to fund the commission at the proposed $12 million level so that it can continue to suppress sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes while improving implementation and research into alternative sea lamprey control techniques.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that governments be requested to legislate the permanent
closure and decommissioning of theses reactors and withdraw any and all publicly funded subsidies,and; BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED that all those public subsidies immediately be shifted into new decentralized generation facilities using clean and safe, sustainable renewable energy sources to help restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes
Basin ecosystem.

Therefore be it resolved: Great Lakes United calls upon the US and Canadian Federal
Governments to reaffirm their commitments to a strong and effective, legally binding global POPs treaty, and to instruct their POPS negotiating team to revise the stances they have been taking in a number of key areas: Elimination, loopholes, precaution, and final obligation. Be it further resolved that Great Lakcs United will assist its member organizations, other Great Lakes institutions, and other organizations in efforts to convince the US and Canadian governments to revise their POPs negotiating stance in advance of the December rneering in order to assure that a strong and effective, legally binding, global POPs treaty is agreed.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the provinces, states, federal and first nation governments of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin to put in place bans on new diversions from the individual surface and groundwater watersheds of the basin, such watersheds to e defined as small as scientifically justified, but no larger than major river watersheds.