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December 2010 Meeting

IntegrationWorkgroup Meeting
December 1, 2010
77 W. Jackson Boulevard
Lake Michigan Room - 12th Floor
Chicago, Illinois

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8:00am	Registration
8:30am	Welcome and Introductions [DRAFT PDF 372Kb, 22 pages] Esther Bobet, Director, Environmental Protection Operations Division, EC and Gary Gulezian, Director, Great Lakes National Program Office, USEPA
8:45am	Roundtable – Stakeholder Updates
9:15am	Overview of National Wildlife Federation NGO Survey [PDF 558Kb, 19 pages] – Michael Murray, NWF Objective:  To present highlights of the NWF’s survey of NGOs on chemicals policy, the GLBTS and the GLWQA.
9:30am	Workgroup Updates
	HCB/B(a)P Workgroup [PDF 70Kb, 9 pages] – Steve Rosenthal, USEPA and Tom Tseng, EC  Dioxin/Furans Workgroup [PDF 91, 11 pages] – Anita Wong, EC and Erin Newman, USEPA  PCB Workgroup – Bradley Grams, USEPA and Ken De, EC
10:00am	Update on U.S. Action Plans [PDF 77Kb, 26 pages] – Bradley Grams, USEPA Objective:  To provide an update on the management of the following priority substances in the US Chemical Management Program and to discuss potential voluntary efforts to address toxics concerns:
	Benzidine dyes and pigments  Nonylphenols/Nonylphenol ethoxylates  HBCD (hexabromocyclo dodecane)  Future Plans under Consideration (Siloxanes and Isocyanates/Diisocyanates)
10:45am	BREAK
11:00am	Highlighting an Example of Industry Excellence [PDF 38Kb, 12 pages] – Graham Knowles, Vinyl Council of Canada, a Council of the Canadian Plastics Industry Association Objective: To present the Vinyl Council of Canada’s initiation of a voluntary program to minimize the exposure of tin stabilizers to the aquatic environment, the subsequent upgrade to an official Environmental Performance Agreement and implementation experience to date.
11:30am	Report out on Emerging Chemicals Screening in Multi-Media Working Group Meeting [PDF 149Kb, 12 pages] – Elizabeth Murphy, USEPA and Sean Backus, EC Objective:  To provide an update on efforts to screen emerging chemicals in the Great Lakes environment
12:00pm	Lunch (Hosted by Environment Canada)
12:45pm	Wastewater Treatment Update [PDF 1.13Mb, 28 pages] – Gary Klecka, DOW, Sonya Klegweg, Ontario MOE, and Shirley-Anne Smyth, EC Objective:  To provide an overview of how compounds of emerging concern are being quantified at WTPs, the related concern about the land application of biosolids containing these compounds, and how treatment technology can address emerging compounds.  Presentations will include an analysis of the effectiveness of WTPs that discharge into the Great Lakes Basin with respect to their removal of compounds of emerging concern.
2:15pm	BREAK
2:30pm	Report out on SETAC Annual Meeting [PDF 340Kb, 12 pages]– Ted Smith, USEPA Objective:  To provide information to GLBTS stakeholders related to the development of a Strategy for Assessing Exposure to and Effects of Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes.
3:15pm	Next Steps
3:30pm	Adjourn

Presentations

• Ontario Ministry of the Environment Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) Studies
  [PDF 176, 22 pages]
• CMP Wastewater Monitoring Program: Compounds of Emerging Concern in Canadian Municipal Wastewater [PDF 299Kb, 21 pages] - Shirley Anne Smyth,  Water Science & Technology

 December 1, 2010: Integration Workgroup Meeting Summary
 Welcome and Introductions [DRAFT PDF 372Kb, 22 pages]