Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports and prioritizes the restoration of natural reefs and aquatic habitat that have been destroyed or degraded due to human activity over the construction of artificial reefs.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United supports prohibition of logging for the purpose of commercial timber extraction on federal lands, as the first step towards managing Great Lakes forested ecosystems sustainably.

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, a basin wide organization concerned with the health of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence ecosystem and its inhabitants opposes the construction of this plant.

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 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 urges the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board and the members of the Wisconsin legislature to remedy the deficiencies described above by amending the draft regulations proposed by the WDNR to include the improvements recommended by Great Lakes United and the other groups participating in the Wisconsin Campaign for Clean Water and then to adopt them in final form; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Governor of Wisconsin, the Secretary of the WDNR, members of the appropriate committees of the Wisconsin legislature, and all seven members of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board.

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, 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 that Great Lakes United supports a bill to amend the Clean Water Act to:

• Require full-scale demonstrations at the five ARCS sites--Buffalo, Ashtabula, Saginaw, Indiana Harbor, and Sheboygan
• Test more technologies at five new Areas of Concern, possibly including Duluth/Superior, Green Bay, Kalamazoo River, Maumeenoledo, and a binational site like St. Mary's River
• Provide sediment assessments for all other AOCs with recommendations for management
• Provide public education and participation before and after the full-scale cleanups
• Provide technological transfer money to the states to hire sediment coordinators and money to the Environmental
• Protection Agency, Bureau of Mines, and the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and train them
• Sediment source modeling and non-point reduction strategies
• Make Lake Superior an Outstanding National Resource Water by the year 2000
• Provide timelines for Great Lakes Initiatives 2 to control non-point pollution from farms and streets; sediments (with standards to protect human, wildlife and aquatic health); air toxics (building on the Great Lakes Waters study); and landfills dumping onto the lakes
• Funding for the above at $20 million to $25 million per year, and

Be it further resolved that the Canadian government adopt similar measures.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United calls upon all U.S. and Canadian Jurisdictions on Lake Superior to ban the use of chlorine and chlorine compounds used for de-lignification and bleaching by the paper industry on Lake Superior; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United views this as a litmus test issue in determining whether or not political leaders and regulators are willing to comply with the visionary spirit of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; AND

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports a ban on the use of chlorine and chlorine compounds for de-lignification and bleaching by the paper industry throughout the Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence River Basin, throughout North America and throughout the world.