Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy
Stakeholder Forum
GLBTS Links
Sector and Substances Working Groups Meeting
Rosemont, Illinois
December 2-3, 2008
Agenda
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | |
1:00-1:15pm | Registration |
1:15-1:30pm | Introductions, Review of Agenda |
1:30-1:45pm | Path Forward [PDF 16Kb, 5pps] |
1:45-2:45pm |
Framework - PFOS Review of General Framework for Identifying Substances to be Considered in the Great Lakes Basin - example using PFOS [PDF 79Kb, 20pps] Binational Framework for Identifying Substances of Potential Threat to the Great Lakes - Test Case: Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), its Salts and its Precursors [PDF 115Kb, 11pps] |
2:45-3:45pm |
Framework - PBDEs
Example Using Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers [PDF 67Kb, 24pps] Binational Framework for Identifying Substances of Potential Threat to the Great Lakes - Test Case: Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers [PDF 242Kb, 18pps] |
9:45-10:00am | BREAK |
4:00-4:45pm | Framework - NPE
(continued)
Example Using NPEs [PDF 134Kb, 16pps] Binational Framework for Identifying Substances of Potential Threat o the Great Lakes - Test Case: Nonylphenol and its Ethoxylates (NPEs) [PDF 183b, 10pps] |
12:00-1:00pm | LUNCH (hosted by Environment Canada) |
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | |
8:30-8:45am | Update on IJC Chemicals of Emerging Concern |
8:45-9:15am | Updates on Monitoring and Surveillance Emerging Contaminant Monitoring and Surveillance in the Great Lakes - Todd Nettesheim, U.S. EPA [PDF 45Kb, 4pps] Update on Monitoring and Surveillance under the Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) [PDF 42Kb, 6pps] |
9:15-10:15am | Discussion on Monitoring and Surveillance in the GLBTS [PDF 11b, 2pps] |
10:15-10:45am | Next Steps |
Thursday, December 4, 2008 | |
8:45am | Registration (Continental Breakfast Hosted by Environmental Canada) |
9:00am | Welcoming Remarks, Introductions, Roundtable and
Announcements Danny Epstein, Director, Environmental Protection Operations Division, EC Gary Gulezian, Director, Great Lakes National Program Office, USEPA |
9:20am | Keynote Speaker – Margaret Kenney
(invited), Director General, Chemical Sectors, Environment
Canada Chemicals Management Plan – Linkages and Opportunities to the Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS) - Margaret Kenny, Environment Canada [PDF 473Kb, 16pps] |
9:40am | Keynote Speaker – Jim Willis, USEPA/OPPT
Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP) EPA’s Chemical Assessment and Management Program UPDATE - Jim Willis [PDF 93Kb, 16pps] |
10:00am | Workgroup Updates & Path Forward for PCBs, HCB &
B(a)P, Dioxins/Furans, Mercury – Workgroup co-chairs
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11:00am | BREAK |
11:15am | Substance/Sector Group Path Forward Updates – Facilitated general discussion |
12:15pm | Lunch (Hosted by Environment Canada) |
1:15pm | Substance/Sector Group Path Forward Updates – Facilitated general discussion (continued) |
2:30pm | Substance/Sector Group Path Forward Updates – Facilitated general discussion (continued) |