GLIN==> EPA Releases Great Lakes Task Force Report to the White House

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EPA Releases Great Lakes Task Force Report to the White House
Contact: Eryn Witcher, 202-564-4355 / witcher.eryn@epa.gov


(10/28/05) EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today signed and sent to the 
White House the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force report highlighting 
activities accomplished by the task force since its creation by President 
Bush in May 2004.

The report details task force successes including the construction of the 
dispersal barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to help prevent the 
spread of Asian carp and other invasive species into the Great Lakes, and 
implementation of the Great Lakes Legacy Act to accelerate remediation of 
contaminated sediments in the lakes. The report also outlines the Task 
Force's involvement in the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration and that 
partnership's efforts to develop a strategy for protecting and restoring the 
Great Lakes.

In addition, the report provides an inventory of federal programs and 
resources that demonstrate the broad scope of the federal government's 
involvement in the Great Lakes region.

The task force, under the lead of EPA, brings together 10 agency and Cabinet 
officers to provide strategic direction on federal Great Lakes policy, 
priorities and programs. The 10 agencies together administer more than 140 
different federal programs that help fund and implement environmental 
restoration and management activities in the Great Lakes basin.

For more information about the task force, see: 
http://epa.gov/greatlakes/collaboration/taskforce/index.html

Release date:10/28/2005 

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