INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION
1999 GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY FORUM
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 1999

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

OPENING CEREMONY

  • Commissioner Susan Bayh
  • Carol Browner, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Commissioner Bayh
  • John Norquist, Mayor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Commissioner Bayh
  • Chairman Leonard Legault
  • Paddi Torsney, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment, Canada
  • Chairman Legault
  • Tony Clement, Minister of the Environment, Ontario
  • Commissioner Bayh
  • Lawrence J. Washington, Jr., Vice President, Environment, Health & Safety, Human Resources and Public Affairs, The Dow Chemical Company
  • Commissioner Bayh
  • James De Nomie, Meshkazeebee Ojibwe Anishinabe

    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

    GOVERNMENTS' PRESENTATION

    Accompanying Visuals:
    English French
    U.S. Great Lakes Program Presentation  
    Binational Great Lakes Activities Activités binationales dans les Grands Lacs
    Canadian Domestic Presentation Présentation nationale canadienne

  • Chairman Legault
  • Tom Barrett, Congressman
  • Francis X. Lyons (I), Administrator, Region V, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • George Meyer, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  • John Mills (I), Director General, Ontario Region, Environment Canada
  • Francis X. Lyons (II)
  • John Mills (II)
  • Doug Barnes, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Environment
  • John Mills (III)

    QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

  • Paula Dupere, President, Joyce Foundation
  • Elaine Marsh, Cuyahoga Remedial Action Plan, Ohio
  • Hy Schwartz, Sierra Club
  • Linda Lucasik, Past President, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan, Ontario; Vice President, Great Lakes United
  • Lianne Caston
  • Vicky Diesner, Ohio Environmental Council
  • Bruce Walker, STOP, Montréal, Québec
  • Rebecca Caters, Clean Water Action Council, Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • Andy Buchsbaum, Great Lakes Office, National Wildlife Federation, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Manfred Gershlin, Chair, Public Advisory Committee, Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan, Ontario; Canadian treasurer, Great Lakes United; representative for Canadian Ontario Public Advisory Committees on the Canada-Ontario Agreement Remedial Action Plan Steering Committee
  • Nichole Marsh, Student
  • Marty Sinclair, National Sierra Club
  • Sidney Bayman
  • Patty O'Donnell, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians; board member, Great Lakes United
  • Elizabeth Christie, Sierra Legal Defense Fund
  • Cory Cahn, Nuclear Energy Information Service
  • Suzanne Sholte, Cleveland, Ohio

    BOARD PRESENTATIONS

    Accompanying visuals:
    Great Lakes Water Quality Board
    Great Lakes Science Advisory Board
    Council of Great Lakes Research Managers
    International Air Quality Advisory Board

  • Commissioner Robert Gourd
  • Great Lakes Water Quality Board
  • Great Lakes Science Advisory Board
  • Council of Great Lakes Research Managers
  • International Air Quality Advisory Board
  • Commissioner Alice Chamberlin

    PUBLIC HEARING

  • Commissioner Chamberlin
  • Thomas Dawson, Director, Wisconsin Strategic Pesticide Information Project
  • Cameron Davis, Executive Director, Lake Michigan Federation
  • Andy Buchsbaum, Great Lakes Office, National Wildlife Federation
  • Cathy Evans, Michigan Statewide Public Advisory Council
  • Ann Reedish, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Glen Maxim, Duluth, Minnesota -- member, Save Lake Superior Association; member, Sierra Club
  • Dan Amortand -- Member, United Auto Workers Union; board member, Great Lakes United
  • Beverley McClellan, Toxics Coordinator and Counsel, Lake Michigan Federation
  • Clint King, Bear Clan of Anishinabe and Haudenoshone People
  • Emily Green, Director, Great Lakes Program, Sierra Club
  • Tom Anderson, Executive Director, Save the Dunes Council of Northwest Indiana
  • Tim Eder, Director, Great Lakes Office, National Wildlife Federation
  • Jack Manno, President, Great Lakes United; Executive Director, Great Lakes Research Consortium, New York
  • Amy Colner, Nuclear Energy Information Service
  • Cory Cahn, Board member, Nuclear Energy Information Service
  • Elaine Marsh, Cuyahoga Remedial Action Plan; board member, Great Lakes United
  • Tanya Cabala, Michigan Director, Lake Michigan Federation; Coordinator, Land and Water Conservation
  • Mike Ripley, Environmental Coordinator, Chippewa-Ottawa Treaty Fisheries Management Authority
  • Doray Stein, Evanston, Illinois

    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

    PUBLIC HEARING

  • Commissioner Frank Murphy
  • Dan Emerton, Fenton, Michigan
  • Verna P. Lawrence, Mayor, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
  • Siegfried Kleinow, Regional Director for Lake Huron, Great Lakes United
  • Patty O'Donnell, Environmentalist, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippawa Indians
  • Andrew Slade, Director of Education, Great Lakes Aquarium, Lake Superior Center
  • Margaret Wooster (I), Great Lakes United
  • Fran Beach, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
  • Sydney Behman, Chicago, Illinois
  • Eric Urham, Midwest Office, Great Lakes Program, Sierra Club
  • Alex Birthart, Student, Duluth, Minnesota
  • Mary Durphee, Professor, Michigan Technological University; U.S. Co-chair, Lake Superior Binational Forum
  • Sue Maholly, New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group; board member, Great Lakes United
  • Manfred Gershlin, Chair, Bay of Quinte Public Advisory Committee, Ontario
  • Linda Lucasik, Past Chair, Public Advisory Committee, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan, Ontario; Vice President, Great Lakes United
  • Nancy Madson, southern Minnesota
  • Margaret Wooster (II), Great Lakes United
  • Ann Mahan, writer, photographer, mother, concerned citizen
  • Nichole Marsh

    CLOSING CEREMONY

  • Chairman Legault