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Media Advisory: EPA and Regional Leaders to Announce October's Great
Lakes Week
http://www.glri.us/glweek.html

CHICAGO – (June 13, 2011) On June 15, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and other participating organizations will announce details of
the first-ever Great Lakes Week scheduled for October 2011 in Detroit,
Michigan. The theme of Great Lakes Week is “Working Together, Taking
Action” and will bring representatives of the U.S. and Canadian
governments together with a broad coalition of public and private groups
to highlight efforts to implement solutions for the lakes’ most pressing
problems.

Great Lakes Week advances President Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative, the largest investment in the Great Lakes in two decades.
The special week also gathers the annual meetings and conferences of
various organizations in one place, making it one of the most
wide-ranging Great Lakes summits in history.

WHO:
•	Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator (Great
Lakes).
•	Lana Pollack, U.S. Section Chair, International Joint Commission.
•	Jennifer Hill, Field Director, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes
Coalition.
•	Dr. Carol J. Miller, Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Wayne State University.

WHAT: EPA and participating organizations will host a conference call to
provide details about Great Lakes Week in October.

WHEN:  10:30 a.m. (Central Time), Wednesday, June 15.

To RSVP for the press call, reporters may contact Peter Cassell at
cassell.peter at epa.gov.
To register for events during Great Lakes Week, please go to
www.glri.us/glweek.html.

For more information on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, please
visit www.glri.us.

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