THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United petition Congress to Increase the funding for federal Great Lakes research programs because of their losses due to Inflation since 1980; these programs Include, but are not limited to:

1. NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
2. EPA's Research Stations at Grosse lle, Michigan and Duluth, Minnesota;
3. Great Lakes research programs funded through the United States Commerce Department's Sea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region;
4. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fisheries Center - Great Lakes, Arbor, Michigan;
5. NOAA's Great Lakes Research Coordinating Office as specified in the 1987 Clean Water Act; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United support the full annual eleven million dollars funding level authorized in Congress to implement the Great Lakes Amendment to the Clean Water Act.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges both negotiating partles to the Canada-Ontario Agreement to:

1) Acknowledge the right of the publlc and thereby the right of the R.A.P. Public Advisory Committees to be provided the opportunity to present public concerns and expectations to both negotiating parties, respecting the R.A. P. process and Implementation of remedial actions within C .O.A.; and

2) Provide such oppohunity In good faith and prior to finalizing a C.O.A. draft document to ensure full opportunity for consideration and inclusion of public expressions and recommendations in all C.O.A. negotiations; and

3) Recognize the urgency for completing a new C.O.A. and therefore arranging for public consultation without any further delay.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that GLU call on the Province of Ontario to conduct a thorough review of the proposed Mathews prolect under the Environmental Assessment Act and the Federal Canadian Government under the Environmental Assessment Review Process in order to ensure that the project will have the minimum adverse impact on the island's natural resources, the rural community of Wolfe lsland and the international Thousand Islands region.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United, at its 1992 annual meeting in Saginaw, Michigan, calls upon U.S. EPA Administrator William Reilly to restore the public's right of access and right to comment on the importance of the lnitiative by immediately publishing the draft rules in the Federal Register and holding public hearings, AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we call on governments at all levels to immediately implement programs to stop the discharge of toxic chemicals into Great Lakes and their tributaries, and to implement the promises in the U.S.€anada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the U.S. Clean Water Act.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that GLU calls upon all its member organizations to write Administrator William Reilly calling for the immediate publication of the draft rules in the Federal Register. Additionally, the letter should request that during public comment period, EPA provide education and Information dissemination as part of the public hearings.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, GLU encourages member organizations to educate their members about the issues pertaining to the Great Lakes initiative in preparation to actively participate In the public hearings along with submitting written comments during the public comment period.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the delegates assembled for the 10th Annual Meeting of Great Lakes United, this 3rd day of May, 1992, that:

1) The lndiana Water Pollution Control Board, IWPCB, be requested to adopt proposed revisions to Indiana's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, NPDES, rule, 327 IAC 5, as expeditiously as possible to implement limits in NPDES permits for discharges to the State's surface waters which will assure standards In 327 IAC 2-1 that adequately protect human, terrestrial, and aquatic life from the toxic Impacts of water pollutants are met: AND

2) The IWPCB Include In those revisions, a requirement to phase out as expeditiously as possible the use of mixing or any dilution allowances for discharges of both the 43 pollutants annotated in Indiana's new water quality standards rule "to be bloconcentrating and of concern" and to sunset these and any other chemicals currently Identified and any other pollutants cunently Identified by the U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative as "Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern," AND

3) The IWPCB include in those revisions, a requirement to employ alternative techniques, such as monitoring of internal processes, caged biota studies, or regular analysis of tissues of resident fish species for detecting and restricting discharges of pollutants whose water'quality based effluent limits are below levels of detection or quantitation; AND

4) The WPCB retain the State's ability In those revisions to enforce the Level of Detection as a compliance point in NPDES permits when water quality based effluent limits are below the Level of Detection; AND

5) To prevent further loading of pollutants in impaired waters, the IWPCB prohibit in those revisions, discharges of Intake water containing concentrations of a background pollutant in excess of its water quality based effluent limit to receiving waters that are not from the same source as the intake water; AND

6) The IWPCB retain the variance provision in the new water quality standards rule, 327 IAC 2-1 -8.8, and in revisions to the NPDES rule, that will place a burden of proof on a discharger to make the maximum effort possible to meet a water quality based effluent limit for a pollutant, through reducing, eliminating or treating a pollutant in the effluent, before being eligible for consideration of a variance from meeting that water quality based effluent limit; AND

7) To cleanup Indiana's impaired surface waters, the IWPCB not add criteria for variances to the new water quality standards rule or the NPDES rule revisions that would include conditions in the receiving stream, such as background pollutants, low flow, other physical features or human induced conditions as grounds for considering variances from meeting water quality standards.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United contact the Canadian Minister of the Environment and Members of Parliament to request the continued funding from the Wildlife Protection Fund for Pierre Beland's critical research and matching funds he sought from the appropriate U.S. Federal Agency t o recognize their binational responsibility to protect this endangered species.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the government of Ontario to substantially revise and immediately implement the draft Provincial Wetlands Planning Policy Statement; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Ontario government must immediately develop effective wetlands protection legislation and expedite its implementation and enforcement to provide effective protection for wetlands; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Ontario government must undergo a full review of the municipal land use planning and review process to ensure that it provides adequate protection for wetlands; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that in the meantime, all existing statutes and regulations that provide for the protection of all wetlands must be used and enforced, including the Conservation Authorities Act, the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act, the Public Lands Act, and the Federal Fisheries Act.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that a new Annex specifically addressing wetlands losses and their effects on the integrity of the Great Lakes ecosystem be added to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement at its next revision; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that for the wetland base in the Great Lakes Basin to be restored, the U,S, and Canadian federal governments should immediately declare the Great Lakes Basin a "demonstration region" for a "Net Gain" in wetland functions and quantity.

BE I T RESOLVED, that to further promote and encourage the protection of land in the Province of Ontario and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region, that the Provincial Government be urged and encouraged to adopt legislation that will allow private not-for-profit organizations to acquire conservation easements; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Federal Government be urged to change Canadian Federal Law so that it promotes the use of the conservation easement by providing tax incentives f o r property owners, that is, making gifts of such easements tax-deductible to the property owner(s).

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United will send letters to key legislators in the House supporting the passage of Congressman Peter Viscloskeyf's Dunes Expansion bill ("The Columbus Day Comprise) ; send letters to Senators Lugar and Coats urging that a comparable or better bill be introduced in the Senate; send letters to key senators supporting the passage of such legislation this year; and encourage its constituent members to also support these efforts with letters to their senators and congress people on their own letterhead whenever feasible.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United strongly urges the International Joint Commission to recommend, and the U.S. and Canadian federal governments to designate, Trail Creek, Indiana as an Area of Concern.