GLIN==> Great Lakes Restoration Action Plan available for review

In July 2009, EPA and the other members of the Great Lakes Interagency
Task Force (IATF) shared an outline for a Great Lakes Multi-Year
Restoration Action Plan for the purpose of public consultation. In July
and August, a series of consultation meetings were held across the Great
Lakes basin to get input on the outline from States, Tribes, local
governments, and other Great Lakes stakeholders, as well as the public.
Using information from these meetings, the Federal partners drafted the
Great Lakes Restoration Action Plan.
http://greatlakesrestoration.us/action/?p=5

This Plan provides information about how the Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative GLRI will address specific high profile, basinwide issues
(for example, aquatic invasive species) as well as critical but more
localized issues (for example, contaminated sediments). EPA and the IATF
will use this plan to guide the overall direction and focus of GLRI and
lays out the goals, objectives, measures, and actions that will help
track our federal efforts from fiscal year 2010 through 2014.

We are now soliciting final input on this draft Plan. Stakeholder input
is crucial for this Plan to be successfully developed into an
accountable and actionable tool. We will consider your comments as we
finalize the Plan for release in February in conjunction with the
President’s 2011 Budget.

Please use the form at
http://greatlakesrestoration.us/action/?page_id=26 to send us your
comments.

Comments must be submitted no later than noon CST on January 8, 2010.
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Pranas Pranckevicius, CISSP
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 West Jackson Blvd.  G-17J
Chicago, IL  60604-3590
pranckevicius.pranas at epa.gov
312 353-3437 Tel
312 385-5446 Fax
www.epa.gov/greatlakes