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.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED TEAT, Great Lakes United undertake a comprehensive collation of data and information on the proposed structural and land use options and review the risks of each so that we may better evaluate our future ections. Where there is a lack of information
we will seek to petition the appropriate agenciee to undertake further studies.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the 1986 Annual Meeting of Great Lakes United formally endoraea the document and the following seven-point program recoamendations:

1. Each state and province should formally incorporate a water registration system for all users of Great Lakes waters. This mandatory registration system should include amounts of water returned to the Great Lakes system and in what quality. In addition, this system should not be used to legitimize existing diversion. We should not accept thie registration system as a basis for "grand-fathering" all existing diversions and consumptive uses.

2. Establish present consumptive use needs in the basin based on the registration data and develop projected future consumptive use needs under a variety of economic growth scenarios. This must be coordinated with the establishment of a data base that understand the quantity and quality of water available to the Great Lakes Basin.

3. Detailed analysis of the environmental, social and economic impacts of water diversion, and incorporate those findings into a Public Health and Welfare case. Economic impacts could only be incorporated as they relate to the health and welfare of the citizenry, to avoid economic protectionism as in the El Paso case.

4. Advocate water conservation/improvement programe within and outside the Great Lakes Basin.

5. Develop state and provincial prohibitive diversion legislation based on the Public Health and Welfare case.

6. Great Lakes jurisdicitions would defend the legislative ban on diversion of Great Lakes water out of the basin in courts based on the Public Health and Welfare case. If the legal case was loat, Great Lakes jurisdictions could then incorporate a permitting system for
water withdrawals.

7. Great Lakes jurisdictions would work with national and-international leaders to develop and implement anti-diversion legislation and agreement 8.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urge the Conference Committee Members to move at once to approve a strong and comprehensive Clean Water Act and calle upon the Great Lakes Congressional Delegetes to urge the Conference Committee to avoid further delays in completing its work on the Clean Water Act.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the following recommendations with respect to the Agreement, as well as such others as shall be developed by task forces of Great Lakes United, be brought to the attention of the International Joint Commission, the Governments of the United States and Canada, the Governors and Premiers of Great Lakes States and Provinces, members of Gongress and Parliament, the legislators of said states and provinces, and other interested parties.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, THAT Great Lakes United reaffirms ite support of the policies of the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and opposes any weakening of the Agreement. Great Lakes United will continue to work towards increase public participation in the implementation and review of the Agreement and offers the following recommendations which apply to any opportunity to strengthen the Agreement by technical Amendment or other means:

1. The Parties ehould adopt an integrated approach to protecting both water quality and water quantity in the Great Lakee Basin.
2. The IJC strengthen its commitment to an ecosystem approach by developing specific programs to coneider the interactione between environrental components, ae well aa the effects of chemical and other contarinante on thoee interactions.
3. The existing Agreement's policies for the virtual elimination" and "zero discharge of persistent toxic subetancee ahould be retained in the Agreement, but they ehould be clarified.
4. The Great Lakes States and Provinces and non-government bodies should be urged to develop environmentally sound alternative methods for the disposal of hazardous waetes. Great Lakes United also encourages the Great Lakes states and provinces to follow the lead of New York State in implementing a phased reduction of the landfilling of hazardous organic waetes, as an initial step towards better policies that do not degrade the environmental quality of the Great Lakes Basin.
5. The IJC and the Parties enter into diecuesions for the purpose of including provisions to protect the Great Lakes Ecoeystem from any potentially adverse

Et Cetera.

NOW 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) BPA's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Isle, Michigan;
(3) Great Lakea research programs funded through the United States Commerce Department'e Sea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region; and
(4) Great Lakes research program funded through the U . S . Fish and Wildlife Service.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the member organizations of Great Lakes United charge the Board of Directors to continue to designate a week to be called "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Week" (GLW) for the purpose of educating citizens about the basin's hietory, ecology, and resource management issues; and to focus attention upon the Great Lakes ecoeyetem; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that since GLW encompasses all the educational goals of Great Lakes United, it should become a plenary seesion agenda item at the Great Lakes United Annual Meeting for ae long as Great Lakes United continues to proclaim Great Lakes Week; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that sember organizations of Great Lakes United take a coordinating role in organizing events for euch a week in their respective communities; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that each Great Lakes United region designate a repreeentative to coordinate activities within their own region; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that in order for a region to designate a GLW representative, Great Lakes regions of Great Lakes United need to meet to deeignate a representative; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Great Lakes Week Task Force of Great Lakes United designate individuals to obtain proclamations of each a week by Governors, Premiers, the President, the Prime Ministers and legislative bodies throughout the Great Lakes Basin; and

Et Cetera

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakee United actively promote new federal, state, provincial and local regulations to suspend the transportation of high level nuclear waste within the Great Lakes Basin until such a time that the above concerns are fully addressed and the safe transport of the fuel can be assured.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United:

- opposes any attempts to reduce the scope of the Section 404 program or the protections now given wetlands by the U.S. EPAss 404(b) (1) Guidelines;
- supports reforms of existing federal farm programe to remove subsidies for production of taurplua crops on wetlande drained and cleared after 1981;
- recommends the elimination of federal, state, and provincial tax incentives for draining and clearing of wetlande.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes B.R. 1519 or any such legislation to fund the atudy of a Lake Erie-Ohio River Canal Project; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that it is inappropriate to fund studies on far-reaching projecta inconsistent with the Great Lakes Charter when other federal qualitative and quantitative research prograre for the Greet Lakes Basin are being crippled in the Halls of Congrees.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Great Lakes United navigation task force should be broadened and continue its work for the purpose of:

(1) investigating the critical issues which have been advanced in the position paper and any others which may arise; and

(2) work along with Great Lakes United members in the development and refining of an action strategy for implementation of Great Lakes United resolutions on commercial navigation; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United Navigation's Task Force-promote the following recommendations:

The establishment of uniform and coordinated regulatory standards and rules governing commercial navigation on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River System which takes the unique environmental, 'social, climatic, economic conditions of the Basin into account. Elements to be coneidered in these uniform regulatory initiatives are:

1. limitation of hazardous goods transported on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River System to ice free and good weather conditions;

2. and in some instances, completely banning the transportation of some kinds of hazardous material, such as radiotoxic material;

3. the enactment of provisions which would impart absolute liability for carriers and shippers of hazardous materials;

4 . the application of stringent safety requirements (which would equal thoee most stringent standards now existing in the basin);

5. the mandatory development of proven containment and clean-up provisions and mechanisms

6. the creation of coordinated mechanisms to ensure the proper monitoring and enforcement of the uniform regulations between Canada and the U.S

7. further research ott the ecological and human health effects of various substances and materials and the working toward a more specific and uniform definition of "hazardous" and "dangerous" material.

THEREFOREs BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United supports water conservation planning, programs, and measures in the Great Lakes region and in more arid regions in the U.S. and Canada, not only for present needs but also for use by future generations; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes the conversion of additional arid lands to agricultural lands through irrigation.