1997-1999 Priorities and Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

Each Individual Board's report (chapter) will be used as background material during relevant sessions as listed in the program information.

• Great Lakes Water Quality Board
• Great Lakes Science Advisory Board
• Council of Great Lakes Research Managers
• International Air Quality Advisory Board

Other Priorities:

• Annex 2 Review
• Indicators

Reports produced by IJC Advisory Boards during the last 2 years:

• Overcoming Obstacles to Sediment Remediation in the Great Lakes Basin, Great Lakes Water Quality Board, November 1997
• Inventory of Radionuclides for the Great Lakes, Nuclear Task Force, December 1997
• A Workshop on the Future of Habitat Restoration and Protection on the Upper Great Lakes - Co-sponsored by the Water Quality Board, January 1998
• Sediment Remediation Case Studies, Great Lakes Water Quality Board, April 1998
• If You Don't Measure It, You Won't Manage It, Great Lakes Water Quality Board, 1998
• Review of Government Resources and Changing Program Thrusts as They Relate to Delivery of Programs Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Great Lakes Water Quality Board, October 1998
• Draft Report - Work in Progress - Identifying and Assessing the Economic Benefits of Contaminated Aquatic Sediment Cleanup. Please send any comments regarding the draft report to Karl Schaefer, Great Lakes Water Quality Board, August, 1999

Ninth Biennial Report on Great Lakes Water Quality

• Canadian Response
• U.S. Response

Binational Toxics Strategy

Great Lakes Areas of Concern

Other Papers

• Exotic Policy: An IJC White Paper On Policies for the Prevention of the Invasion of the Great Lakes by Exotic Organisms, Eric Reeves, July 15, 1999 (PDF Title Page, Table of Contents, and Content)

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