Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United:

• Endorses the recommendations of the International Joint Commission's Sixth Biennial Report pertaining to toxic substances
• Urges the Virtual Elimination Task Force of the International Joint Commission to adopt the background report by T. Muir et al. titled: "Case Study: Application of a Virtual Elimination Strategy to an Industrial Feedstock Chemical-Chlorine" (hereinafter referred to as the "chlorine case study")
• Urges the inclusion of the chlorine case study as part of the main report of the Virtual Elimination Task Force
• Recommends that the governments work to apply and implement the methodology, findings, and recommendations in the chlorine case study, and
• Circulates copies of this resolution and the chlorine case study to the members of the Great Lakes United and urges them to endorse the case study

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the governor of Michigan, the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, and the Great Lakes Basin Water Resources Management Committee to reject this precedent-setting proposal and to implement a water resources conservation plan that documents all withdrawal and consumption of Great Lakes water and groundwater resources.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports the concept of funding environmental improvement projects from the recovery of unclaimed beverage container deposits and other sources, and that Great Lakes United supports enactment of New York State's Environmental Assistance Fund to assist municipalities in financing needed environmental projects, preserve and protect open space, enhance public recreational opportunities, and assist Adirondack Park communities in developing and improving land use plans.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United reaffirms its historic position in support of public participation in the development and implementation of all government programs to protect and restore the Great Lakes Ecosystem, and

Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United calls upon President Clinton to direct the Office and Management of Budget not to interfere with promulgation of the final Great Lakes Initiative, and

Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United calls upon the governments of Canada, Ontario, and Quebec to reform their laws and procedures for citizen access, at a minimum, to provide information on pollution discharges and sources, including water quality and fish and wildlife contaminant monitoring data, to the same extent as such information is available under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and U.S. environmental laws, and

Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United opposes efforts by Michigan Governor John Engler to reorganize Michigan's environmental programs in any manner that will restrict opportunities for public participation in decisions concerning Great Lakes programs, or that will restrict citizen-commission control of natural resource management programs.

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 petitions Congress to restore full funding provided by the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to ensure the completion of current research programs designed to develop strategies to understand, deal with, and perhaps reduce the economic and ecological impacts of nonindigenous aquatic nuisance species such as zebra mussels and sea lamprey, and

Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United call upon all its member organizations to write their state congresspersons and members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees urging them to support the restoration of full funding for zebra mussel research in the Great Lakes.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the Canadian federal through the agencies of Fisheries and Oceans in cooperation with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food to pursue research on the impacts of these exotic species.

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 opposes proposed legislation in Michigan and elsevrhere in the Great Lakes Basin that would allow toxic incinerator ash to be disposed of in municipal solid waste landfills.

THEREFORE, be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports passage of HB 4719 and encourages passage of similar legislation in other states, provinces and by both federal governments.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that GREAT LAKES UNITED will work to support the establishment and implementation of the Great Legacy Program to preserve natural areas as reservoirs of biodiversity and protect the best examples of biodiversity in aquatic and terrestrial sites located in pristine or restored areas of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that GLU strongly urges the Council of Great Lakes Governors to provide regional political leadership necessary to establish and implement the Great Legacy program, a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin-wide biodiversity conservation strategy; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that GLU urges the states and provinces in the Great Lakes Basin as well as local units of government to take expeditious and appropriate steps to support the establishment and implementation of the Great Legacy program;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be conveyed to the Governors and Premlers of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Basin and the office of the Council of Great Lakes Governors.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the government of Ontario be urged to take the steps outlined above with respect to the Long Polnt watershed: AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the governments of Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York across Lake Erie from Long Point and the federal governments of Canada and the United States, through the appropriate legislators, agencies and ministries, the International Joint Commisslon, and non-governmental agencies and groups be urged to ask the Ontario government to pursue the actions listed above to protect and preserve Long Point, a world class example of biodiversity and variety of natural habitat.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United opposes HR 1330 and S 1463 and endorses HR 4255 as an important, fair legislative tool to halt further loss of wetlands in the US.; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United will communicate this position to all U.S. Senators and Representatives from Great Lakes states within the next month.