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Great Lakes National Program Should Improve Internal Controls to Ensure Effective Legacy ACT Operations
Author | : U S Environmental Protection Agency |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781500562403 |
Sediment contamination, primarily caused by industrialization in the Midwest, has been a problem in the Great Lakes for several decades. Historically, Great Lakes stakeholders have pursued sediment remediation through a variety of mechanisms, such as enforcement agreements and voluntary partnerships. It has been reported that polluted sediment is the largest major source of contaminants entering the food chain from Great Lakes rivers and harbors. This includes most of the areas of concern designated by the United States and Canada, the parties to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was first signed in 1972 and renewed in 1978. The agreement expresses the commitment of each country to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem. EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) was established in 1978 to oversee U.S. efforts to implement the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Congress passed GLLA to expedite the remediation of contaminated sediment sites and improve the ability of the United States to meet its commitments under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. GLLA established an innovative approach to conducting sediment remediation in that it uses partnerships with nonfederal sponsors to accomplish the work. Project agreements under these partnerships require that the nonfederal sponsor provide a minimum of 35 percent of the effort in cash or in-kind contributions to the project.
A Five Year Program Strategy for the Great Lakes National Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Great Lakes National Program Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Great Lakes (North America) |
ISBN | : |
Great Lakes, Great Legacy?
Author | : Theo Colborn |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : Conservation Foundation ; Ottawa : Institute for Research on Public Policy |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
This study argues that simply augmenting actions already taken to remedy environmental degradation in the Great Lakes region, such as control of polluters, and piecemeal restrictions of physical development, is not a sufficient response. Rather, it shows that a far-reaching commitment to reduce the environmental assault on the Great Lakes from all sources is necessary. It also underscores the need for a dramatic break from the crisis management approach to environmental degradation that persists in the region, and to develop a commitment to anticipate and prevent future legacies of environmental destruction.
Great Lakes Environmental Research
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Great Lakes Water Quality and Restoration Efforts
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Legal Pollution of the Great Lakes
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Great Lakes Human Health Effects Research Program
Author | : Barry L. Johnson |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2000-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0756700124 |
In 1990, Congress amended the Great Lakes (GL) Critical Programs Act, also known as the Fed. Water Pollution Control Act, mandating that the EPA and the ATSDR and the GL states submit a research report assessing the harmful human health effects of water pollutants in the GL basin. ATSDR developed the GL Health Effects Research Strategy to identify human populations residing in the GL basin that may be at greater risk of exposure to chemical contaminants, and to help prevent any adverse health effects. This report provides insight into ATSDR efforts to assess the adverse effects of water pollutants in the GL system on the health of people in the GL states.