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Weekly Update

27 July 2009

 

*	Briefing:  Manufacturing a Better Future for America
*	Great Lakes Task Force Meeting
*	German Government Officials Visit Great Lakes

and Chesapeake Bay Ballast Test Facilities

*	New Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition Members
*	Upper Mississippi River Basin Association Meeting
*	Visions of a Sustainable Mississippi River Conference

 

 

Briefing:  Manufacturing a Better Future for America

 

The Senate Task Force on Manufacturing is holding a briefing with the
Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) on Monday, July 27, at 11:00
AM in room 428-A of the Russell Senate Office Building - the Senate
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Hearing Room.  The
briefing will include presentations from industry experts about the
challenges faced by U.S. manufacturers and the need to revitalize our
manufacturing base.

 

AAM recently published a new book entitled Manufacturing a Better
Future for America, written by leading academic and industry experts.
The book outlines why manufacturing is vital to the U.S. economy, and
provides objective information and analysis.  Topics include the
current state of U.S.-based producers and industry trends, the history
of U.S. trade and industrial policies, analysis of other countries'
trade practices, and the impact of these changes on workers, society,
training, research, and defense.

 

The AAM executive director, and two of the book's authors, will make
brief presentations and field questions:

 

.         Richard McCormack, Editor and Publisher of Manufacturing
<http://www.manufacturingnews.com/>  & Technology News;

.         Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President of the Economic
<http://www.econstrat.org/>  Strategy Institute; and

.         Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance
<http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/>  for American Manufacturing.

 

Contact Chris
<mailto:chris_hickling at reed.senate.gov?subject=July%2027%20Manufacturi
ng%20Briefing>  Hickling (202/224-0606) at the Northeast Midwest
Senate Coalition.

 

 

Great Lakes Task Force Meeting

 

On Monday, July 27, there will be a meeting for Great Lakes Task Force
staff with Cameron Davis, the newly appointed Great Lakes Coordinator.
Mr. Davis will provide a short overview of this new position, and then
staff will be free to ask questions.  The meeting will take place at
2:30 PM in room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

 

Contact Joy
<mailto:joy_mulinex at levin.senate.gov?subject=July%2027%20Task%20Force%
20Meeting>  Mulinex (202/224-1211) at the Great Lakes Task Force.

 

 

German Government Officials Visit Great Lakes
and Chesapeake Bay Ballast Test Facilities

 

On August 20-21, representatives of the German government visited the
Northeast-Midwest Institute's Great Ships Initiative (GSI) ballast
treatment test facility and the Maryland-based Maritime Environmental
Resource Center (MERC).  The German government is considering
accepting data from the two facilities to help determine if the
treatments can meet International Maritime Organization standards.
Both GSI and MERC will make themselves available to measure treatment
performance against domestic standards once they are promulgated.

 

Contact Allegra
<mailto:acangelo at nemw.org?subject=German%20Government%20Officials%20Vi
sit%20GSI%20and%20MERC>  Cangelosi  (202/464-4007) at the
Northeast-Midwest Institute.

 

 

New Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition Members

 

The Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition continues to grow, and
would like to extend a welcome to the following new Members of
Congress:  Representatives John A. Boccieri (OH-16), Charles W. Dent
(PA-15), Donna F. Edwards (MD-04), Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), John P.
Murtha (PA-12), and Gary C. Peters (MI-09).

 

Contact
<mailto:mary.cronin at mail.house.gov?subject=New%20Coalition%20Members>
Mary Cronin (202/226-6795), Legislative Director, Northeast-Midwest
Congressional Coalition.

 

 

Upper Mississippi River Basin Association Meeting

 

The Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA) has announced
the agenda for its August 4-6 meetings
<http://www.umrba.org/meetings.htm>  in Peoria, Illinois.

 

The UMRBA's goal is to facilitate dialogue and cooperative action
regarding water and related land resource issues in the Upper
Mississippi River Basin region.  Issues addressed by the UMRBA include
nonpoint pollution, water quality planning and management, inter-basin
diversions, cost-sharing strategies, water project financing, sediment
and erosion, hazardous spills, toxic pollution, habitat restoration,
navigation capacity, channel maintenance, flood response and recovery,
floodplain management, wetland protection, hydropower development and
licensing, and drought planning.

 

For more information about the meetings contact Margie Daniels
<mailto:mdaniels at umrba.org?subject=August%20Meeting>  (651/224-2880)
at the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association.

 

 

Visions of a Sustainable Mississippi River Conference

 

The Visions of a
<http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/mississippiriver/index.html>
Sustainable Mississippi River Conference will be held in Collinsville,
Illinois, from August 10-13.  According to the hosts (The National
Great Rivers Research and Education Center, and The Nature
Conservancy), the conference "will attract diverse participants with
interest in our nation's largest river, including stakeholders in the
recreational, navigation, and agricultural sectors, researchers, and
natural resource professionals."  The conference will have four focus
areas:

 

*	ecosystem services and economic value;
*	flood plain connectivity, flood control and hydrologic regime;
*	ethanol production, and
*	clean water uses and threats.

 

The conference will include a session, "Policy Forum:  Presentations
to Elected Officials and Other Decision Makers," on the last morning
of the conference.  The goal of that session is to summarize the
proceedings of the conference, and present key policy issues to an
audience of elected officials and other decision makers governing the
Mississippi River basin.

 

Contact Mark
<mailto:mgordon at nemw.org?subject=Mississippi%20River%20Conference>
Gorman (202/464-4015) at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.

 

 

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