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Stakeholder Forum
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Sector and Substances Working Groups Meeting
Chicago, Illinois
September 24-25, 2008
Agenda
| Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | |
| 8:00-8:15am | Registration |
| 8:15-8:30am | Introductions, Review of Agenda |
| 8:30-9:00am | Guide to Substance and Sector Workgroup
[PDF 32Kb, 4pps]- Ted Smith, US EPA
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| 9:00-9:45am |
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| 9:45-10:00am | BREAK |
| 10:00-12:00pm | Review of Comments by Stakeholders and Discussion on Framework - Discussion Facilitated by John Menkedick |
| 12:00-1:00pm | LUNCH (hosted by Environment Canada) |
| 1:00-1:15pm | CMP Monitoring and Surveillance
[PDF 40Kb, 6pps]- Greg Carreau,
Environment Canada
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| MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE | |
| 1:15-1:30pm | US Great Lakes Monitoring and Surveillance
[PDF 83Kb, 12pps] - Beth
Murphy, US EPA
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| 1:30-2:00pm |
Monitoring and Surveillance in the Context of the Framework
[PDF 173Kb, 7pps] - Discussion |
| 2:00-2:10pm | Path Forward |
| Thursday, September 25, 2008 | |
| CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES - ACTION | |
| 8:45am | Registration (Continental Breakfast hosted by Environment Canada) |
| 9:00am | Welcoming Remarks, Introduction, Roundtable and
Announcements Danny Epstein, Director, Environment Protection Operations Division, EC Gary Gulezian, Director, Great Lakes National Program Office, US EPA |
| 9:20am | Workgroup Reports Outcome: Updates by workgroup co-chairs for Mercury, PCBs, HCB & B(a)P |
| 9:45am | Substances/Sector - Path Forward Update (facilitated general discussion) |
| 10:30am | BREAK |
| 10:45am | Substances/Sector - Path Forward Update (facilitated general discussion con't) |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH (hosted by Environment Canada) |
| 1:00pm | Future GLBTS Meeting Frequency
and Reporting Format and Frequency [PDF 48Kb, 11pps] (facilitated general discussion) |
| 2:00pm | Agenda Planning |
| 2:30pm | Concluding Remarks and Adjoin Next Meeting: Thursday - December 3-4, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) |