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.

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United support a legislative proposal to create a Great Lakes Advisory Council with representatives from conservation/environmental groups, private sector overnment agencies, and the legislature to assist in the implementation of New York's Great Lakes Agenda and to advise the Governor and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on Great Lakes issues; AND

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports full membership of New York State and Pennsylvania in the Council of Great Lakes Governors and supports a close cooperative relationship with the Premiers of Ontario and Quebec.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the concept of the states establishing a fund to provide additional, stable, long term financing of Great Lakes research, monitoring and clean-up activities; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the Great Lakes Governors and a steering committee of the Great Lakes Protection Fund to provide for environmental group and public representation on the steering committee, the Board of Trustees and on all other entities created to oversee or administer the Fund; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that this endowment fund not be invested in corporations or municipalities or bond issues of those entities who have a record of violations of environmental laws; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that contributions to the Fund and disbursements from it should supplement and not replace direct state or federal funding of Great Lakes research, monitoring, or clean-up activites, and that such fudning be consistent with the "polluter pays" principle as adopted by Canada and the Unisted States as members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Great Lakes Governors should agree to perform and make public an annual audit of each state's spending on Great Lakes research, monitoring, and clean-up activities, including the expenditure of federal grant funds, so as to demonstrate that contributions to or from the Fund are not replacing direct state or federal funding of Great Lakes research, monitoring, or clean-up activities; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that the governing body of the Fund with the advice of policymakers throughout the basin should establish clear priorities as to the types of projects eligible for funding and that, within those priority categories, funding decisions should be made exclusively on their scientific merit; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the participation of Ontario and Quebec in the Fund or the establishment of a companion fund in Ontario and Quebec; AND

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that all research, literature review leading to that research, and monitoring data be made readily available to the public.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United petition Congress to increase the funding for federal Great Lakes research rograms 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 Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, Michigan;
(3) Great Lakes research pro rams funded through the United States Commerce De artment's ea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region ocused on restoring environmental quality;
(4) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fisheries Center - Great Lakes, Ann Arbor, Michigan; AND
(5) NOAA's Great Lakes Research Coordinating Office as specified in the 1987 Clean Water Act; AND

FURTHER BE IT 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.

Resolution Summaries topcis are Air Pollution, Fallout, Water Quality, Hazardous Waste, Toxic Substances, Water Levels, Water Flow, Diversions, Navigation, Fish Health, Wildlife Health, Habitat Health, Land Use, Energy Distribution, Energy Development, and Education.

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 calls upon the Environrental Protection Agency to replace their general policy for remedial action at abondoned hazardous waste sites in the Great Lakes Basin with a policy which emphasises permanent solutions to these
problems through:
1. source removal of mobile wamtes in an environmentally sound and humanly safe manner using Best Available Technology,
2. clean-up technologies and remedial alternatives that lead to effective waste destruction employing Best Available Technology.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United be authorized to join local organizations actively opposing construction and operation of new land burial facilities such as CECOS Secure Chemical Residue Facility (SERF) #6 being proposed by CECOS Int'l.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United petition the government of Ontario to reverse its decision not to designate this project and to formally designate this project under the Environmental  Assessment Act or to establish a commission under Public Inquiries Act to suspend approvals process and to report within 60 days.

FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United work with the Friends of the Magpie River to ensure these environmental concerns are addressed and no increased diversion are permitted into the Great Lakes Basin.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United actively seek to stop overflow dredging.

THBREPORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakee United supports promulgation and implementation of the Greet Lakee Toxic Substances Control Agreement;

BE IT FURTHBR RESOLVED, that U.S. and Canadian citizen involvement in the implementation and review of the Great Lakes Toxic Substance Control Agreement is essential to the control of toxic pollutants entering the Great Lakes System;

BB IT FURTHBR RESOLVED, that U.S. and Canadian citizen involvement is the design of any Basin-wide agreement including, at a minimum, consultation and responce as provided for in the agreement, is essential to the control of toxic pollutants; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that the success of the Great Lakes Toxic Substance Control Agreement in controlling the entry of toxic pollutants into the Great Lakes system is dependent upon continuing public involvement.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United requests the:

United States House of Representative Committee on Energy and Commerce; and
the United states Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; and
the Canadian Special Committee on Acid Rain; and
the Ontario Legislative Committee on Environment,
to hold (oversight) hearings throughout the Great Lakes Basin on the issue of toxic airborne deposition.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOVLED THAT those states with federally approved Coastal Management Programs under the DZMA should work expeditiously to significantly improve their Programs, and that pertinent Canadian federal and provincial jurisdictions vigorously undertake protection of costal areas.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT states without federally approved Coastal Management Programs under the CZMA should make the creation and approval of a Program a top priority; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED THAT Coastal Management Programs should include strict erosion set-back regulations, a coherent policy overseeing commercial and residential lakefront development and assured access for the public to lakefront areas; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT serious water quality issues, including but not limited to toxic pollution, acidic deposition, heavy metals and other pollutants associated with development, be address by the Great Lakes states so that water-dependant industries, and recreational and aesthetic uses of the Lakes can continue; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED THAT coastal barriers not presently protected by state or federal laws, and those that are proposed for inclusion in the Coastal Barriers Resources System, be included in the System.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United endorse the establishment of a US-Canadian joint Coastal Management program.