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Your Role in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement Review Process

The U.S. and Canadian federal governments' intensive work to review the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement will begin in 2006. We encourage you to follow this process and take advantage of opportunities to share your views with the governments about how their Agreement work is proceeding.

To help them prepare for their review, the governments asked the International Joint Commission to hold a series of public meetings as well as an online consultation to gather as much input from the public as possible on their concerns and expectations for the Agreement and the Great Lakes ecosystem. The governments want to know what the public's views are about how the Agreement has worked, what issues should be included in a revised Agreement, and how those issues should be addressed.

The Commission will hold 14 public meetings and a Web Dialogue in October and November, 2005. It will also accept comments online, by e-mail, fax, mail and telephone. For details and developments, visit www.ijc.org/glconsultations regularly or call
1 866-813-0642.

All information provided to the Commission will be collected and presented to the two governments, with a synthesis report, in early 2006.

We encourage you to consider how you can contribute to the governments' review, and what you would like the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement to address.

The future of the Agreement and the Great Lakes rests in all of our hands. Through this review process, each of us can contribute to a process that ensures that the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem is truly restored and protected.

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