GLIN==> NY Great Lakes Compact draft report public input sessions

**Please distribute widely**

 

The Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council has released the draft report Our
Great Lakes Water Resources: Conserving and Protecting Our Water Today for
Use Tomorrow. This draft report offers recommendations to Governor Paterson
and the NYS Legislature in response to the directive issued to the Council
by the New York State Legislature in approving the ratifying legislation of
the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (the
Compact) in 2008.

 

The draft report is available at this website:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/56095.html

Public recommendations on the report are being accepted until August 14,
2009. Comments can be submitted via email to glakes at gw.dec.state.ny.us or by
regular mail to: 

Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council Report
c/o NYSDEC Region 9
270 Michigan Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14203

In addition, written comments and recommendations will be accepted at each
of the public input sessions listed below.

July 22 Plattsburgh SUNY Plattsburgh,  Hawkins 153C 4-6pm

 

July 15 Watertown State Office Building
Conference Room #1 4 - 6 pm

 

July 21 Cortland SUNY Cortland
Jacobus Lounge, Brockway Hall 4 - 6 pm 

 

July 23 Troy Center for Environmental Health
Conference Room 4A/B
Flanigan Square, 547 River Street

4 - 6 pm 

 

July 27 Buffalo Great Lakes Center, Teaching Pavilion 4 - 6 pm 

 

July 28 Rochester RIT, Building #76
(Carlson Center for Imaging Science)
Carlson Auditorium 4 - 6 pm

For Further Information on the Compact and other States/Provincial Programs,
please visit the Council of Great Lakes Governors <http://www.cglg.org/>
website.


View the Draft Report


Main body of report <http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/glbacrpt1.pdf>
(833 KB PDF)
Appendices A - C <http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/glbacrpt2.pdf>
(1,456 KB PDF)
Appendices D - F <http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/glbacrpt3.pdf>
(1,529 KB PDF)

The Compact is contained in New York
<http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/glwrcompact.pdf>  Environmental
Conservation Law Article 21, Title 10 (116 KB PDF).

 

 

 

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