Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy
Stakeholder Forum

Minutes

Agenda - December 6, 2006 [PDF 13b 1pp]

BaP_HCB [PDF 62Kb 12pps]
Dioxins [PDF 76Kb 11pps]
Mercury [PDF 60Kb 8pps]
PCBs [PDF 60Kb 10pps]
Marta Panero, Director Harbor Project, Industrial Ecology, Pollution Prevention and the NY/NJ Harbor [PDF 936 40pps]

BaP/HCB Workgroup Meeting:

Jon Dettling, Great Lakes Commission, "Benzo(a)pyrene Emissions in the Great Lakes Region: A Reassessment of 2002 Emissions"
[PDF 247Kb 27pps]
Curtis Englot, Environment Canada, "Wood Preservation Sector Strategic Options Process Update"
[PDF 341Kb 30pps]
Victor Li, Environment Canada - Ontario Region, "Ontario’s Residential Wood Combustion Program 2006-07"
[PDF 52Kb 5pps]
Tracey J. Norberg, Rubber Manufacturers Association, "Scrap Tire Management Update"
[PDF 1.33MB 37pps]
Steve Rosenthal, U.S. EPA, "Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative, GLBTS"
[PDF 1.76Mb 22pps]
Ed Wojciechowski, U.S. EPA, "Coke Plants – Major BaP Sources"
[PDF 69Kb 10pps]
Cindy Yang, Environment Canada, "Ontario Release Inventory Update-2005 BaP and HCB"
[PDF 81Kb 13pps]
"Major B(a)P Source Categories and Reduction Activities" - December 2006
[PDF 919Kb 56pps]
"Residential Wood Combustion and Outdoor Wood Boilers Updates"
[PDF 647Kb 45pps]

Dioxin Workgroup Meeting:

Agenda - December 6, 2006 [PDF 10Kb 1pp]
Richard Canady, Paul South - US Food and Drug Administration, "Dioxin in Food/Feed: US FDA Sampling"
[PDF 155Kb, 27pps]
Biorn Hedman, Morgan Naslund, and Stellan Marklund, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, "Discussion of 2006 EST Paper"
John Jake Ryan, Health Canada - Bureau of Chemical Safety, "Human Biomonitoring, Intake Values and Food Monitoring for Dioxins and Furans in Canada"
[PDF 19Kb 9pps]
Erin Newman, U.S. EPA, "Learn Not to Burn, Reducing Backyard Burning of Household Waste"
[PDF 675Kb 23pps]
Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative, SOLEC
[PDF 1.76Mb 22pps]

Mercury Workgroup Meeting:

Cass Andary, "End of Life Vehicle Solutions"
[PDF 229Kb 16pps]
Michael Berndt and John Engesser, Minnesota DNR "Minnesota DNR's Coordinated Hg Research Effort: Mercury in Taconite Stack Emissions"
[PDF 340Kb 36pps]
Jon Dettling, Great Lakes Commission, "Atmospheric Mercury Monitoring in the Great Lakes Region"
[PDF 156Kb 6pps]
John Gilkeson, MN PCA (Peggy Harris, CA DTSC; Mary Blakeslee, ECOS), "National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program (NVMSRP) Discussions"
[PDF 103Kb 12pps]
Stephen Hoffman, U.S. EPA, "Mercury Releases from Artisanal Gold Mining, Industrial Scale Gold Mining and Metallic Smelting"
[PDF 16Kb 9pps]
Debra Jacobson, WMRC - IDNR, "Development of a Great Lakes Mercury Phase-Down Strategy"
[PDF 42Kb 10pps]
Dawn Jensen, ERCO Worldwide, "Port Edwards Membrane Conversion Evaluation"
[PDF 614Kb 36pps]
Marie-Hélène Lacasse, Environment Canada, "Environment Canada National Mercury Programs Update"
[PDF 307Kb 13pps]
Dennis Leonard, DTE Energy, "Need for Clarification on Mercury Policies"
[PDF 461Kb 19pps]
Cara Sweeney, Clean Air Foundation, "Brief Updates"
[PDF 147Kb 8pps]

Agenda - December 7, 2006 [PDF 14Kb 1pp]

Nicole Davidson, Environment Canada, "CEPA – Domestic Substance List Post-Categorization and Relevance to the GLBTS"
[PDF 98Kb 17pps]
David Garabrant, "Measuring People's Exposure to Dioxin Contamination Along the Tittabawassee River and Surrounding Areas"
[PDF 2.22Mb 58pps]
Carri Lohse-Hanson, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, "Lake Superior 2005 Chemical Milestones"
[PDF 227Kb 22pps]
Deborah Savage, Ph.D., EMA Research & Information Center (EMARIC), "Accelerating Phase-out of PCB Transformers: Software and Case Study"
[PDF 80Kb 15pps]
- PCB Transformer Case Study: Chimanco, Inc.
  [PDF 72Kb 6pps]
John Warner, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Lowell - Center for Green Chemistry, "Laying the Foundation for a Great Lakes Green Chemistry Network"
[PDF 190Kb 28pps]
SOLEC Conference Summary
[PDF 58 18pps]