Therefore be it resolved that restoration processes related to the Collaborative’s restoration plan include means for addressing cleanup of radioactive mining, research, and power generation waste.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United recommend to Governor Granholm that
Michigan enact policies to discourage the paving of Michigan highways with aggregate sourced from environmentally sensitive and ecologically significant areas, such as the shores of Lake Superior.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the United States and Canadian governments to collaboratively adopt the key principles outlined in the Louisville Charter as an important step for chemicals policy in North America to protect the health of our communities and the environment.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the prohibition of shipments of high-level radioactive waste on the Great Lakes.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to disapprove DOE's attempts to declassify HLRW as "waste incidental to reprocessing" and abandon it on-site and Be it also resolved that Great Lakes United supports the exhumation and containment of the West Valley nuclear waste.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United: Demand that the governments of states and provinces possessing Great Lakes shoreline sand dunes ban the mining of Great Lakes shoreline sand dunes; Demand that industry turn to alternative sources of sand and that these sands are extracted with as little environmental impact as possible; Demand that industry develop alternative, low impact technologies to end their dependence on sand; Demand that the governments of states and provinces possessing Great Lakes shoreline sand dunes follow steps prescribed.

BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United is on record as opposing any and all legislation which would override the State of Nevada’s Notice of Disapproval and which would require radioactive waste transportation near or through the Great Lakes states to Yucca Mountain;

And BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the creation of an independent presidential commission to re examine the U.S. national radioactive waste policy.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United: Congratulates Canada and applauds its action to become the first country to ratify the
Stockholm Convention on POPs; Urges President Bush, through his staff and advisors, to expeditiously transmit the POPs Treaty to the US Senate for its “advice and consent” to ratification; Urges the United States Senate to ratify the Stockholm Convention in this first session of the 107th Congress so that the United States will also be one of the early countries to ratify the Convention and set an example of leadership for other countries to follow.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United call upon the Canadian Parliament to
take effective steps to preserve the Ojibway Industrial Site (Ojibway Shores) as a natural area.

In response to the Binational Executive Committee’s (BEC) invitation to comment on their draft review of the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA), the sixty-four groups who submit this brief congratulate the members of the binational Agreement Review Committee (ARC) for pulling together a summary that we believe fairly reflects the discussions carried out during 2006. Therefore, in this brief, instead of focusing on the ARC document, we present our preliminary position on revision of the Agreement. As the review and possible renegotiation continues over the next couple of years, we will present more details on these policy directions.