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