THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakea United supports these provisions in the 1985 Farm Bill;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United supports the reforms of existing federal farm programs t a remove subeidies for production of surplus crops on wetlands drained and cleared after 1981.

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 THAT, Great Lakes United encourages that adequate funding levels for government efforts to reduce non-point pollution be establiahed, coordinated and maintained; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, voluntary coneervatioa measures be achieved through incentives and by example and that local direction for non-point pollution probleme be emphasized as a primary component in such an effort.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United reaffirm its Navigation Resolution of 1983; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the Navigation Task Force undertake the preparation of a poeition paper representing the Great Lakee United view of commercial navigation use of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence. In the preparation of this poaition paper, the task force will consider the need to place the issue of navigation on the Great Lakes within the wider context of social, economic and environmental factors--the ecosystem approach. Specifically, the task force shall address navigation issues, including:

• user fees;
• additional locks and channel widening;
• harbor and port development and improvement;
• coordination of research between the United States and Canada;
• winter navigation end season extension; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, with these considerations in mind the task force shall develop a Great Lakes United action strategy for effective protection of the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the task force shall submit its poaition paper and recomrendations to the Great Lakes United Annual Meeting in 1985, with recorrendationa for inmediate action forwarding to the Board of Directors in the interim.

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, the Coastal Management Act be reauthorized with continued etrong federal support for state management programs; and

BE IT FURTHER RBSOLVBD THAT, special emphasis and additional funding be provided for additional acquisition of estuarine sanctuaries forprotection and study; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the crippling Supreme Court decision undermining the consietency provision be overturned in the area of offahore oil and gas leaeing, and that the federal consistency provision be strengthened to encompass other important federal activities, such as the designation of ocean incineration sites; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the Coaetal Zone Management Act, with a reinstituted consistency provision for ell federal activities directly affecting states' coastal zonee, be expeditiously reauthorized by Congress at adequate funding levels during the 1984 legielative session.

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.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, where the current effluent level of a discharge is below the permitted level for a particular parameter, any permit reissued shall require the current discharge level to be the new permitted level; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the wildlife criteria shall be designed to protect the most ecologically sensitive species; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, the human health criteria shall be designed to protect high risk populations, including heavy consumers of fish and sensitive groups such as newborns and the elderly; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, as part of the implementation procedures, any permit which regulates discharges of bioaccumulative, persistent compounds shall include a sunset provision to phase out the use of the compound; therefore achieving zero discharge; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, any new or reissued permit must include a pollution prevention plan developed by the discharger and approved by the permitting agency; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, all aquatic, wildlife and human criteria shall be expanded to include protection from reproductive, neurological, and other non-cancer effects.

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 Lakea United provide expertise and assistance to achieve the goals of erosion control, future State ownerahip and long-term management.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United encourage the Federal Governmental Agencies, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the New York Department of Parka and Recreation to apply ecologically aound methods to control erosion and to further enhance the recreational, fisheries and other natural benefits of the island.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United adopts a policy banning the use of disposable products, especially polystyrene and other plastic products, where alternative recyclable and reusable producis exist in ail its offices and at all its meetings, even when where such poiicy is understood to increase COSTS; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United will adopt a policy promoting the recycling of all paper, glass and beverage czns used in its ofices and at all its meetings; AND

BE IT FGRTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United will adopt a policy to use recycled paper in all its publications, the office and other activities to the greatest extent possicie; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, thar Great Lakes United will publicize these policies wherever possible as a means of setting a positive example and acting as a model in this area.