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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
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)
   


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