FY95 Great Lakes Program Priorities and Funding Process
1995 GREAT LAKES PROJECT
SUMMARIES
This document contains project summaries for Great Lakes
projects funded by the Great Lakes National Program Office and Regions 2, and 5 in Federal
Fiscal Year 1995. The summaries are brief descriptions of projects based on the proposals
submitted to, and approved by, USEPA. Since the date awards were made, there have been
numerous changes in projects and in project contacts. In many cases, final reports have
been completed. More current information is also available for some projects in the
following documents:
USEPA Contacts
for Projects |
Contaminated Sediments |
Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369) |
Pollution Prevention |
Elizabeth LaPlante (312-353-2694)
Danielle Green (312-886-7594) |
Habitat Protection/restoration |
Karen Holland (312-353-2690) |
Monitoring |
Glenn Warren (312-886-2405) |
Education/outreach |
Anthony Kizlauskas (312-353-8773) |
Information Management |
Pranas Pranckevicius (312-353-3437) |
State Capacity |
Michael Russ (312-886-4013) |
General LaMP/RAP Activities |
Mark Elster (312-886-3857) |
Region 2 |
Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3948) |
Region 5 |
Gene Wojcik (312-886-0174) |
We may also be contacted via e-mail using the
convention: lastname.firstname@epa.gov
Contaminated Sediments
- Erie
Contaminated Sediment Support for Clinton River and
Trenton Channel, Michigan (DW96947740-01-0: $225,000)
IAG with Corps of Engineers to support MiDNR
Project Officer: Callie Bolattino (312-353-3490)
The goal of this project is to conduct sediment assessments
and provide technical assistance in pursuit of sediment remediation for two Michigan
waterways: Clinton River and Trenton Channel. Comprehensive assessments of the sediments
within specific areas of the river and channel will be completed in order to further
define locations of extensive contamination.
Subbottom Profiling of Trenton Channel, Detroit River
(DW96947730-01-0: $25,040.19)
Recipient: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Project Officer: Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369)
This is a joint effort with Large Lakes Research Station and
the Army Corps of Engineers to examine the utility of acoustical profiling to map the
3-dimensional physical properties of bottom sediments. Once developed such a technique can
be used to assist both in the assessment and remediation of contaminated sediments by
providing information on sediment type as well as providing volume estimates of selected
sediment deposits. This technology was tested on the Trenton Channel with plans to use it
at other Great lakes AOCs if proven successful.
Contaminated Sediments of the Trenton Channel
(GL985207-01: $125,000)
Recipient: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369)
The Trenton Channel has been distinguished as containing the
most contaminated sediments of the Detroit River AOC. This project will encompass site
selection and treatment evaluation of sediment remedial technologies and their
applicability to Trenton Channel sites. Work will be carried out cooperatively with
efforts of the Essex Region Conservation Authority, Essex, Ontario.
Area of Concern - Reference Site Sediment Characterization
(GL985203-01-0: $110,000)
Recipient: OEPA
Project officer: Rick Fox (312-353-7979)
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will assess
reference sites for physical and chemical characteristics within four Ohio Lake Erie Areas
of Concern from it's three ecoregions. This information will be used to determine how much
contamination originates from discrete, upstream or "background" sources. This
information will also aid in determining clean-up levels and "no action"
recovery times.
Contaminated Sediments - Huron
Contaminated Sediment Support for Saginaw River,
Michigan
(DW 96947741-01-0: $57,000)
IAG with Corps of Engineers to support MDNR
Project Officer: Callie Bolattino (312-353-3490)
This IAG will focus on providing sediment data management and
technical assistance in pursuit of sediment remediation for the Saginaw River, Michigan.
The goal of the project is to develop a GIS system which will provide a means for
importing, analyzing and reporting contaminated sediment sampling data. This will involve
the compilation of all previously collected sediment sampling data in digital or hardcopy
form and the transfer of this data into a standard database format.
Use of Congener-Specific PCBs to Distinguish Among Sources of PCBs Input Into the
Saginaw River and Bay
(GL985191-01-0: $101,353)
Recipient: University of Michigan
Project officer: Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369)
This project will be used to generate and provide information
on riverine and atmospheric transport of PCBs to the Saginaw River and Bay system. This
study will assist in delineating the sources of PCBs in the Saginaw River by determining
where major concentrations of PCBs exist in the Saginaw River watershed, how they are
transported during rain events, and whether airborne PCBs represent a substantial input to
the watershed.
Contaminated Sediments - Michigan
Waukegan Harbor AOC Use Impairment Reassessment 1995
utilizing Fish, Water, and Sediment Data
(GL 985226-01-0: $100,000)
Recipient: IEPA
Project Officer: Rick Fox (312-353-7979)
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Waukegan
Citizen's Advisory Group (CAG) will conduct a site assessment using fish, water, and
sediment in the Waukegan Harbor. This reassessment is necessary to determine the current
use impairments existing in the harbor since the Waukegan Harbor Superfund action, which
removed the majority of PCBs (the principle chemicals of concern) from the harbor
sediments.
Design and Engineering of a Contaminated Sediment Remedial Option in the Lower Fox
River
(GL985130-01; $100,000)
Recipient: WDNR
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
The objective of this cost-shared project will be to
accomplish the final pre-remedial activity including engineering design, plans and
specifications and development of bidding documents necessary to remove, treat and/or
isolate a mass of PCBs in the Lower Fox River. Costs for this efforts will be shared with
the industrial and municipal participants in the Fox River Coalition, a public/private
partnership group working to remediate PCB-contaminated sediments in the Fox River.
FY95 Fox River Sediment Assessment
(GL985143-01; $135,000)
Recipient: WDNR
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
This project will provide the data needed to resolve the
uncertainties with the current PCB data and, therefore, will advance the remediation of
the contaminated sediments in the Lower Fox River. This project also implements a Green
Bay RAP recommendation for characterization of the Lower Fox River contaminated sediments.
Sediment samples will be collected with the R/V Mudpuppy, a USEPA vessel, from
approximately 100 stations in the Fox River.
Contaminated Sediments - Ontario
Eastern Lake Ontario Drainage Basin Sediment Study
(GL985137-01-0: $314,004)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Diane Dennis-Flagler (312-886-4012)
The intent of this study is to evaluate sediments, including
those previously identified as contaminated in the Eastern Lake Ontario drainage basin.
Emphasis will be accorded to the validation of suspect data included on the National
Sediment Inventory and the study of contaminated sediment deposits identified as impacting
water quality by the NYSDEC Priority Water Problem list. Included in the this study as
part of the sediment assessment of the basin will be bioacculation tests using
Lumbriculus
variegatus (Oligochaeta) to assess uptake of nonpolar organic chemicals, metals and other
sediment associated contaminants.
Contaminated Sediments -- Base Program
(GL002967-03I: $444,900)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Maintain Great Lakes contaminated sediments inventory and
prioritized list of contaminated sites. Recommend site remediations to divisions and
agencies dealing with contaminated sediments. Monitor dredging projects for impacts on
Great Lakes waters.
Lake Ontario Sediment Sampling
(GL002967-03J: $137,950)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Collect 2 cores in each of the Lake Ontario depositional
zones of the Black, Oswego, and Genesee Rivers. Document historical trends of toxics
inputs from tributaries. Evaluate present significance of inputs to prioritize trackdown
activities. Cooperative effort with Environment Canada (EC): EC will collect the cores and
NYSDEC will analyze them.
Contaminated Sediments - Superior
Survey and Mitigation of Mercury in Sediment
Contamination for Six Reservoirs on the Lower St. Louis River (Phases I & II).
(GL985025-01-0: $200,000)
Recipient: Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee
Project officer: Rick Fox (312-353-7979)
The Fond du Lac Reservation will undertake a study to further
assess mercury contamination in sediments and to investigate potential mitigation of the
mercury contamination. Previous work (funded by GLNPO and Region 5) show that mercury is
at high concentrations in surfaces sediments. Prior to this, it was thought that mercury
contamination was being buried. This study will further assess the extent of mercury
contamination in sediment and benthos in six reservoirs, investigate mercury
bioaccumulation mechanisms, and test specific field methods to reduce the uptake and
bioaccumulation of mercury in fish.
Sediment Remediation Scoping Project for the M.L. Hibbard Power Generating Plant
Site in the St. Louis River Area of Concern (MPCA Cluster GL985131-01; $100,000)
Recipient: MPCA
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
Sediments in the inlets north and south of the M.L. Hibbard
coal-powered electricity generation plant have been identified as being highly
contaminated by previous GLNPO/MPCA investigations. Restoration of the area as a
high-quality wetland is of interest tot he Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. This
project will assess remediation scenarios for sediments adjacent to the plant. The
assessment will include an analysis of current data, possible augmentation of that data,
mapping of sediment contamination areas, evaluation if remedial options, and
identification of potentially responsible parties.
Design of a Sediment Treatment Plant at the Duluth-Superior Harbor Erie Pier
Confined Disposal Facility
(GL985132-01; $92,000)
Recipient: University of Minnesota-Duluth
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
As originally envisioned, this project was designed to
characterize the sediment contamination and grain size distribution within the Erie Pier
Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), with the intent of developing a process that could be
used to remove substantial quantities of sediment from the facility through their
treatment in a particle-separation process that would render them suitable for less
restricted disposal (e.g., construction fill, beach nourishment, etc.). Investigations by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, principal users of the CDF, revealed
in late 1995 that the materials in the CDF appear to be far less contaminated than
initially believed and less amenable to treatment than hoped. The project is currently
being re-scoped to investigate potential disposal options for sediments as removed from
the CDF, in order to provide capacity in the CDF for disposal of contaminated sediments
that may be removed from non-navigation channel areas of the Duluth-Superior AOC.
Contaminated Sediments - Multiple Lakes
IAGLR Annual Meeting
( GL985076-01-0--$10,000)
Recipient: IAGLR
Project Officer: Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369)
This project provided funding support for the 38th Conference
of the International Association for Great Lakes Research. The meeting was held in E.
Lansing, Michigan in May, 1995.
Evaluation of the Variability in the USEPA Freshwater Sediment Toxicity and
Bioaccumulation Methods
(0824161-01: $20,000)
Recipient: Wright State University
Project Officer: Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369)
This is a jointly funded project with EPA Headquarters to
assess and evaluate the intra- and inter-laboratory variation in freshwater sediment
toxicity tests. Both acute and chronic toxicity and bioaccumulation testing using
freshwater organisms will be assessed in round-robin testing. The output of this project
will be a comprehensive evaluation and documentation of the variation in these tests which
help define the usefulness of these methods in compliance monitoring and site assessment.
Costs and Benefits of Cleaning Up Contaminated Sediments in Great Lakes Areas of
Concern
(GL985062-01; $61,463)
Recipient: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
This project will develop a systematic mathematical model
that clearly describes and integrates the cost, performance and effectiveness of selected
processes for sediment remediation. This mathematical model development is part of a
multi-institutional project to develop a methodology, framework, tools and provide
training in estimating the costs and benefits of sediment remediation in the Great Lakes
AOCs. The Great Lakes Protection Fund has awarded grants for the project to the
Universities of Wisconsin-Madison, Minnesota-Duluth, Windsor, and Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Pollution Prevention/Virtual Elimination/Clean Sweeps
- Michigan Indiana Lake Michigan Basin Counties Pesticides Clean Sweep (GL985133-01-0: $50,000)
Recipient: Purdue University
Project Officer: Edward Master
The Indiana Great Lakes Basin Counties Clean Sweep is a
pollution prevention program with its goal being the elimination of agricultural
pesticides finding their way into the waters of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. Many farmers
and agricultural chemical dealers, to this day, have in their possession canceled,
suspended, or unwanted pesticides. The Office of the Indiana State Chemist (OISC) will set
up collection dates in each of two targeted counties: Lake and DeKalb. The OISC will
contract with a qualified hazardous waste disposal firm to take control of, transport, and
dispose of all pesticides that will be brought to the collection site.
Pollution Prevention/Virtual Elimination/Clean Sweeps - Ontario Rochester
Embayment Mercury Pollution Prevention (GL985142-01-0: $61,000)
Recipient: Monroe County Department of Health
Project Officer: Danielle Green (312-886-7594)
A pilot study will be conducted in one medical center and at
one dental center to identify, quantify, and evaluate existing and potential
cost-effective mercury pollution prevention opportunities. The expected outcome of this
program will be identifying the potential for reducing the mercury discharges to
wastewater and to air in the Rochester Embayment watershed. This project will share
successes and failures with the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District and the National
Wildlife Federation both during and after the project.
Great Lakes Mercury Sources Inventory and Pollution Prevention
(GL992375-01: $90,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Alice Yeh (212-637-3702)
Identify sources of mercury in New York's Great Lakes basin.
Recommend pollution prevention plans to significant sources identified, in order to
achieve reductions in mercury inputs to Lake Ontario.
Impacts of Pollution Prevention
(GL992106-02: $72,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Alice Yeh (212-637-3702)
Direct future pollution prevention efforts by assessing the
impact of past efforts. Make pollution prevention recommendation to New York Great Lakes
basin facilities that are significant sources of priority toxic chemicals.
Erie County Clean Sweep Projects Expansion -- 1996
(X002728-02: $90,000)
Recipient: Erie County
Project Officer: Alice Yeh (212-637-3702)
Establish the Clean Sweep program at three more counties in
the New York Great Lakes basin for collection and proper disposal of unused agricultural
pesticides. To date, Erie County has introduced Clean Sweep programs to 8 counties,
resulting in approximately 47,000 lbs of pesticides collected and properly disposed.
Provide a final analysis of each Clean Sweep's effectiveness.
Pollution Prevention/Virtual Elimination/Clean Sweeps -
Superior
Mercury Reduction Through Treatment Chemical
Selection
(Cluster Grant GL985131-01-0: $35,000)
Recipient: MPCA
Project Officer: Danielle Green
Mercury is one of the critical pollutants that limits fish
consumption on the Great Lakes. The purpose of this project is to reduce mercury that may
be reaching Lake Superior through cooling water and effluents from power plants, boilers,
and other facilities. The proposed strategy is to switch from high mercury to low mercury
chemical feedstocks such as caustic soda and sulfuric acid.
Mercury Zero Discharge Pilot Project
(GL985121-01-0: $100,000)
Recipient: Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
Project Officer: Danielle Green (312-886-7594)
The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District supports the goal
of zero discharge of persistent bioacculmulative toxics within the basin and believes zero
discharge is a stepwise process that can be approached by working with customers to
eliminate use of and sources of mercury. The project will develop an integrated
multi-media program to reduce the discharge of mercury, a bioaccumulative toxic, using
"front end" pollution prevention techniques with hospitals, clinics, educational
institutions, laboratories, and dental practices.
Pollution Prevention/Virtual Elimination/Clean Sweeps -
Multiple Lakes
Mercury Reduction and Pollution Prevention in
Hospitals
(GL985135-01-0: $41,350)
Recipient: National Wildlife Federation
Project Officer: Danielle Green (312-886-7594)
This project will organize one or more hands-on educational
workshops with the goal of reducing and eliminating mercury use in hospitals. The purposes
of these workshops are twofold:
1) Collaboration and up-front planning with hospital staff;
and
2) Identify all hospital sources of mercury, determine the
viability and availability of alternatives and give hospital administrators options for
making the right choices.
Pollution prevention will be accomplished by reducing the
discharge of mercury from hospitals into both wastewater treatment plants and medical
waste incinerators.
U.S.-Canada Binational Virtual Elimination Strategy
(GL995563-01-3: $23,480)
Recipient: Environment Canada
Project Officer: Elizabeth LaPlante (312-353-2694)
The purpose of this project is to implement a public
participation strategy for the purpose of receiving public comment and input on the
virtual elimination strategy. This funding will be used for one public meeting, hiring a
consultant to organize and facilitate the meeting, and various outreach activities. The
binational virtual elimination strategy proposed an intensive education and outreach
program in the Great Lakes Region of both the U.S. and Canada.
Mercury Reduction in Medical Waste
($15,000: GL995793-01-0)
Recipient: Purdue University
Project Officer: Glynis Zwicki (312-886-4571)
The recipient will produce an environmental software program
(in a windows format) to educate hospital administrators and staff about the health
hazards associated with mercury. The program will: identify mercury-containing equipment
used in the medical setting; offer suggestions for alternative products; describe proper
disposal and spill clean-up procedures.
Habitat Protection/Restoration -
Erie
Cuyahoga River RAP Riparian Zone Restoration
(GL985134-01-0: $156,540)
Recipient: Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization
Project Officer: Karen Holland (312-353-2690)
The Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization will
reestablish a riparian corridor, re-establish natural community types using indigenous
plant species, create new partnerships among private landowners, public agencies, and
stakeholder organizations, demonstrate a new approach in coordination of the project, and
educate the public to ensure long term success.
Hamilton Lake (Fish Creek) Watershed Land Treatment
(GL995954-03: $44,220)
Recipient: Indiana DNR & Stuben County SWCD
Project Officer: Kent Fuller (312) 353-3503
Fish Creek, a tributary to the Maumee River in the Lake Erie
basin, contains one of the richest assemblages of fresh water mussels in the world. Thirty
one species are present including three that are endangered. It is the only location where
one of the endangered species is known to survive. Hamilton Lake is a 700 acre natural
impoundment on Fish Creek. Project funds are being used to support a partnership of
federal, state and local organizations which is working with land owners to install
management practices which control sediment, nutrients and other pollutants within the 110
square mile watershed. This assistance brings GLNPO's total contribution for this project
to $294,800.
Habitat Protection/Restoration - Huron
Establishment of Native Plants/Habitat on Lake Huron
(DW929477-01-0: $75,000)
Recipient: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Project Officer: Richard Greenwood (312-886-3853)
This habitat restoration project will establish and
demonstrate the techniques required to restore native habitat to lakeshore areas which
were previously in commercial/industrial use. Three parks owned by the City of Rogers
City, Michigan on Lake Huron will be the sites for this restoration project. Included will
be the development of methods of propagating native plants from the area. Natural plant
communities will be identified, samples collected, and native plants propagated and
planted.
Habitat Protection/Restoration - Michigan
Pigeon River Biodiversity Maintenance and Restoration
(GL985125-01: $78,486)
Recipient: InDNR, Division of Nature Preserves
Project Officer: Kent Fuller (312-353-3503)
The recipient will prepare a strategic plan for restoration
and maintenance of biodiversity in the Pigeon River ecosystem. The Pigeon River watershed
contains areas rich in biodiversity as recognized in the Nature Conservancy 1994 report on
the Great Lakes. Major tasks supported by this grant include assembly of existing
information on the hydrology and biology of the area; gathering additional
biological/ecological information; and integration and analysis of the information.
Critical Habitat Protection in the Fox-Wolf Basin
(GL985124-01-0: $50,000)
Recipient: Fox-Wolf Basin 2000, Inc.
Project Officer: Kent Fuller (312-353-3503)
The project will create a locally based entity that can
receive ownership or other interests in land that is ecologically important, but which may
not be of a scale that is attractive to statewide or national conservancy organizations.
The project includes assembly of information on critical and high quality habitat within
the region; and contact with land owners to provide assistance in arranging protective
agreements, dedications or purchases. The Fox-Wolf basin is tributary to Green Bay of Lake
Michigan.
Restoration of Habitat for the Endangered Karner Blue Butterfly in the Illinois
Beach State Park Project (IAG)
(DW14947739-01: $18,000)
Recipient: U.S. FWS Chicago Field Office
Project Officer: Kent Fuller (312) 353-3503
The native wild lupine (Lupinus perennis) within the Illinois
Beach State Park (IBSP) will be mapped, evaluated and restored as a critical step in
restoring the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). Restoration
activities will include removal of invasive brush and trees. When recovery of the lupine
is sufficient for IBSP to be given priority by the Illinois Department of Natural
Resources for reintroduction of the butterfly, larvae will be obtained and released. Sites
in the park are uniquely well suited for this endangered species and the objective is to
support local populations of the butterfly as part of a regional mega-site along Lake
Michigan extending into Wisconsin.
Great Marsh Wetland Habitat Restoration
(GL985140-01-0: $64,805)
Recipient: Indiana University
Project Officer: Karen Holland
Indiana University will assist Indiana Dunes National
Lakeshore in restoring disturbed portions of the Great Marsh. The project objectives are
to determine hydrology for the present Dunes Creek and Derby Ditch watersheds of the Great
Marsh, implement a pilot wetland restoration for which physical and biological factors
will be investigated, demonstrate the effects that hydrology has on the vegetation
composition, investigate sedimentation rates which reflect land use both on National
Lakeshore lands and on lands within the watershed which are the source areas for runoff,
and formulate recommendations based on the findings for expanded restoration and
management of the Great Marsh ecosystem and other similar wetland habitats.
Develop atlas of biodiversity of Chicago region & materials for start-up
(GL985200-01-0: $10,000 GLNPO/$25,000 OPPE)
Recipient: Illinois Office of The Nature Conservancy
Project Officer: Karen Holland (312-353-2690)
The Chicago Region Biodiversity project supports two
activities: preparation of an atlas of biodiversity of the Chicago region; and development
of materials for the "rollout" or full scale announcement of the very large
partnership effort by more than 30 organizations. The overall purpose is to provide
coordination of activities that address biodiversity and to increase public awareness of
the rich, but disappearing resources of this biological region.
Habitat Protection and Restoration at Grand Calumet Preserves, Indiana
(GL985066-0: $40,000)
Recipient: The Nature Conservancy
Project Officer: Richard Greenwood (312-886-3853)
The project includes construction of a fence at Hoosier
Prairie/Gaylord II Tract; and restoration, educational, outreach and stewardship
activities at the Ivanhoe Nature Preserve. Restoration will involve removing trash and
addressing the spread of exotic species. Efforts to expand habitat for Karner Blue
butterflies will include removing young oak trees from several sand dunes.
White Lake Area of Concern Habitat Assessment
(GL985147-01-0: $40,680)
Recipient: Lake Michigan Federation
Project Officer: Callie Bolattino (312-353-3490)
This grant will increase public knowledge of the White Lake
area habitat through the creation of a plant and wildlife inventory, habitat map and
educational video focused on the value of local biodiversity for fish and wildlife
populations and water quality.
Turn-A-Lot Around
(GL985202-01-0: $20,000)
Recipient: Resource Center
Project Officer: Callie Bolattino (312-353-3490)
The Resource Center will use this assistance to provide
environmental and business education opportunities for city-dwelling children while
restoring vacant lots to native seed gardens. The results of this grant will be the
establishment of an Ecology Club at the Chicago Housing Development, Stateway Gardens. The
participants in the Ecology Club will receive summer employment to clean vacant lots on
Stateway Gardens property and develop those areas into permanent native seed gardens. The
students will additionally study ways to market the seeds for profit and make the program
financially self-sustaining.
Oak Savanna/Karner Blue Butterfly Investigations
(DW14947694-01-1: $74,000)
Recipient: National Biological Survey (NBS), Great Lakes Center
Project Officer: Karen Holland (312-353-7996)
This additional assistance allows NBS to continue work to
define the oak savanna community and assist future restoration efforts by improving our
understanding of this endangered ecosystem. They will also investigate the use of this
habitat type by the endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the implications for management.
Habitat Protection/Restoration - Ontario
Sandy Pond Peninsula Protection and Restoration
(GL985129-01: $55,257)
Recipient: The Nature Conservancy - Midwest Regional Office (Central and Western
New York Chapter)
Project Officer: Robert Beltran (312-353-0826)
The project seeks to restore and protect a mile-long section
of the barrier beach that separates North Sandy Pond (a large bay) from Lake Ontario. It
enables the recipient to channel foot traffic while providing public access via dune
cross-over structures and appropriate signage. It also employs an educational initiative
to help instill stewardship values in area residents and other site users. Together, these
measures are intended to protect the fragile dunes and wetlands important to nesting and
resting for numerous shorebirds.
Habitat Protection/Restoration - Superior
Control of Harmful Fish Through Natural Spawning
Pheromone Attractants
(GL985189-0: $70,000)
Recipient: Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee
Project Officer: Richard Greenwood (312-886-3853)
Introduction of exotic species have resulted in significant
impacts to Great Lakes aquatic resources. This habitat protection and restoration project
to control the Eurasian ruffe and the common carp, will be conducted in the St. Louis
River estuary, Lake Superior by the Fond du Lac Natural Resources Program and Ceded
Territory Biologist, the National Biological Service, and the College of Fisheries and
Wildlife-University of Minnesota/St. Paul. The project goal is to determine and implement
an effective control method for ruffe and carp through the use of reproductive pheromones
to supplement other control measures to prevent or significantly slow the further
expansion of these harmful exotic species. Methodologies developed could be applied
basin-wide.
Habitat Protection and Restoration in the Lake Superior Basin
(GL985189-0: $70,000)
Recipient: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Richard Greenwood (312-886-6853)
The Minnesota of Department of Natural Resources will
coordinate and implement Lake Superior Binational Program and Lake Superior Work Group
habitat restoration and protection efforts. Important habitat areas in the Lake Superior
Basin will be identified, described, and appropriate management activities identified and
implemented. Partnerships, stewardship activities, and public information and involvement,
will be fostered for these Lake Superior habitat and restoration initiatives.
Bad River/Kakagon Watershed Management Project
(GL985001-0:$75,753)
Bad River Band of Lake Superior
Project Officer: Karen Holland (312-353-2690)
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians will
facilitate sound ecosystem planning and management in the Bad River Watershed and Kakagon
Sloughs by conducting biological inventories to identify baseline conditions, managing
collected data, collaborating with other agencies and stakeholders to maintain ecosystem
health, and educating Tribal and non-tribal publics about the natural resources of the
sloughs and watershed. The effort will enhance protection by producing biomonitoring
plans, assisting with the Tribe's Integrated Resources Management Plan, educating the
Tribe and non-tribal public about the resources, and encouraging other organizations and
individuals to undertake similar actions.
Habitat Protection/Restoration - Multiple Basins
Restoration of Great Lakes Coastal Habitats
(GL985180-01-0: $40,000)
Recipient: The Nature Conservancy
Project Officer: Callie Bolattino (312-353-3490)
The Michigan Chapter of The Nature Conservancy will use this
assistance to protect and maintain ecologically significant open dune, interdunal wetlands
and alvar grassland communities and the threatened and endangered plants and animals that
reside in four Michigan nature preserves. The grant will accomplish the protection goals
be reclaiming habitat from alien plant species distributions, determining distributions of
key elements in relations to alien plant species distributions, developing and
field-testing new biological management techniques and establishing local volunteer
preserve committees. (Huron & Michigan Basins.)
Michigan's Upper Peninsula Native Plant Demonstration Area
(GL985160-01-0: $16,350)
Recipient: Upper Peninsula RC&D Council
Project Officer: Callie Bolattino (312-353-3490)
The Upper Peninsula Resource Conservation & Development
Council will use this assistance to increase public knowledge on the potential for use of
native plants in ecosystem planning, habitat restoration and ornamental plantings within
the region. The results of this grant will be the development of a native plant
demonstration area which will include walking trails and plant information stations.
Currently, over 600 school children a year tour the area in which the native plant
demonstration project is to be added. (Michigan & Superior Basins.)
Develop Great Lakes Imperiled Species Information
(Total of $225,000)
Recipients:
- Minnesota DNR (GL985187-01-0: $20,000)
- Wisconsin DNR (GL985190-01-0: $20,000)
- The Nature Conservancy (Michigan) (GL985181-01-0: $20,000)
- Illinois DNR (GL985183-01-0: $20,000)
- Indiana DNR (GL985184-01-0: $20,000)
- Ohio DNR (GL985185-01-0: $20,000)
- The Nature Conservancy (New York) (GL985186-01-0: $20,000)
- Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (GL985182-01-0: $20,000)
- The Nature Conservancy (Eastern PA) (GL985179-01-0: $20,000)
- The Nature Conservancy (GL States) (GL985178-01-0: $40,000)
Project Officer: John Schneider, (312-886-0880)
Following up on a 1991 USEPA grant of almost $65,000 to The
Nature Conservancy/Midwest Heritage Task Force, in FY95 GLNPO issued a cluster of 10
grants in the 8 Great Lakes states. The purpose of these grants is to assist the states in
their ability to manage biodiversity data electronically. This will assist them in
assessing imperilled species information on an ecosystem basis.
State Wetlands Protection Program
(CD985010-01: $354,090)
Recipient: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Carolyn Bury
Biological Criteria Survey for the Rouge River
(X985208-01: $20,000)
Recipient: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Gene Wojcik
Wetland technical assistance to the 10 tribes in
Michigan
(CD985017-01: $57,370)
Recipient: Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan
Project Officer: Janice Cheng
The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan (MITC) will assist the
Bay Mills Indian Community and the Keweenaw Management Plans. MITC's goal is to eventually
develop wetland management strategies for all the Michigan Tribes that request their
assistance. The strategies will include the identification, preservation, and management
of wetlands on reservations. MITC will also produce a reference document that outlines the
wetland regulatory program and how it applies to Native American Tribes.
Wetland Protection and Conservation Ordinance
(CD985014-01: $50,000)
Recipient: Grand Portage Reservation
Project Officer: Janice Cheng
The Grand Portage Reservation will develop a Wetland
Proection and Conservation Ordinance for the reservation that includes regulatory ad
non-regulatory approaches to wetland protection. A wetland conservation task force will be
established to draft the ordinance. The ordinance will ensure that valuable wetland areas
are fully protected. A wetland technician will perform wetland delineations and
evaluations on approximately 20 percent of the reservation (2,000 acres). Sections of land
most at risk due to development will be the primary focus.
Monitoring Wetland Permit Activity in the Northwest and North Central Districts of
Wisconsin
(CD985063-01: $308,571)
Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Catherine Garra
The grant will be used to develop a wetland database for 22
counties in the Northwest and North Central Districts of Wisconsin, based on the Wisconsin
Wetland Inventory Maps, including the lake Superior shoreline. Information in the database
will include 401 water quality certification decisions and 401/404 enforcement violations.
WDNR will perform a programmatic evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses associated
with the implementation of wetland water quality standards in the study area, and suggest
specific improvements.
Improve Wetlands Protection in Wisconsin through Strengthened Shoreland Zoning
Standards
(CD985063-01: $62,354)
Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Catherine Garra
The grant will examine the scientific basis for existing
State regulatory program criteria on lands bordering lakes in Wisconsin, including Lake
Michigan and Lake Superior. It will clarify ambiguous or difficult standards, document the
impact of shoreland and near shore development and articulate the benefit to Wisconsin's
environment and economy from effective shoreland zoning administration.
Monitoring - Erie
Atmospheric Monitoring in Lake Erie
(GL995239-03-2: $7,705)
Recipient: OEPA
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
Operation and maintenance of an IADN site on Lake Erie.
Atmospheric Monitoring in Lake Erie
(GL995488-01-1: $11,780.32)
Recipient: SUNY Research Foundation
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
Operation and maintenance of Sturgeon Point IADN site on Lake
Erie.
Monitoring - Michigan
MDNR Lake Michigan Mass Balance Air and Water
Monitoring Workshop
(Gl995381-01-4: $15,000 Federal Share - Amends State Capacity Grant)
Recipient: Michigan DNR
Project Officer: Mark Elster (312-886-3857)
MDNR will hold a workshop which will bring together key
process researchers and air and water modeling experts from the US and Canada. This
workshop will facilitate exchange of information and ideas between various areas of
expertise and will result in a document directing the air-water model linkages to be used
in the Lake Michigan Mass Balance model.
Mercury Measurement for LMMB
(GL995569-01-2: $69,912 GLNPO/$43,572 R5 Water)
Recipient: University of Michigan
Project Officer: Dave Anderson (312-353-2015)
The University of Michigan will continue collection and
analysis of samples for vapor-phase, particle-phase and precipitation mercury in support
of the LMMB. The Recipient will provide an analysis of the data including estimates of the
atmospheric loadings of total mercury to Lake Michigan and source receptor modeling.
Preparation of XAD-2 Sampling Columns and Analysis of
Open-lake Water Column Samples in Support of LMMB
(IAG # DW89947684-1: $600,000)
Recipient: Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (DOE)
Project Officer: David Anderson (312-353-2025)
This award continues laboratory support for LMMB open-lake
monitoring. It covers the preparation of sampling equipment and the analytical chemistry
for two of the LMMB target parameters, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and
trans-nonachlor.
Food Chain Studies & Contaminant Analysis in
Support of LMMB
(IAG # DW14947692-01-1: $540,878)
Recipient: National Biological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center
Project Officer: Paul Bertram (312-353-0153)
Assistance continues for this multi-part IAG for biological
information for the LMMB. The data obtained through this effort will subsequently be used
to develop or calibrate components of the food web model for the transport of contaminants
from water to the top predator fish in Lake Michigan. Included are project elements for:
1) collection of lake trout and forage fish for contaminant analysis; 2) chemical analysis
of contaminants in lake trout, coho salmon, and forage fish; 3) assessment of lake trout
and forage fish diets; and 4) determination of coho salmon growth rates.
Collection of Coho Salmon for Contaminant Analysis
and Determination of Coho Salmon Diet for LMMB
(IAG # DW14947693-01-1: $79,539)
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI)
Project Officer: Paul Bertram (312-353-0153)
Funding continues for this LMMB project to collect coho
salmon for contaminant analysis and to determine coho food habits. This effort will
provide important information about one of the three target fish species identified in the
LMMB Work Plan. The contaminant burden and diet information will subsequently be used to
develop a model to describe contaminant flow through the Lake Michigan food web to coho
salmon.
The Collection and Analysis of Total Mercury in the
Water Column of Lake Michigan
(GL995593-01-1: $24,182/GL995593-02-0: $69,930)
Recipient: University of Maryland
Project Officer: Glenn Warren (312) 886-2405
Assistance for this LMMB project is continued for analysis of
total mercury in Lake Michigan lakewater samples. Clean techniques and clean room
facilities are used to collect, process and analyze the samples. Mercury is a pollutant of
current concern, and this work is the most extensive on the Great Lakes looking at the
very low trace concentrations in the water.
Sediment Sampling & Analysis for LMMB
(IAG # DW13947696-01-0: $220,130)
Recipient: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Project Officer: Glenn Warren (312-886-2405)
Assistance continues to: measure the gross downward fluxes of
particulate material and organic carbon; collect samples of the resuspendible pool of
materials in regions of the lake where modern sediments do not accumulate; and provide
samples of these materials for target compound analysis.
Contaminant Transfer in Lake Michigan Lower Pelagic
Foodweb
(GL995616-01-1: $64,192/ GL995616-01-2: $154,603)
Recipient: University of Minnesota
Project Officer: Glenn Warren (312-886-2405)
Assistance continues for this LMMB study to: 1) develop and
implement the methods used to collect phytoplankton and zooplankton samples from open lake
stations in Lake Michigan by the R/V Lake Guardian; 2) determine the concentrations of
target analytes in phytoplankton and zooplankton samples collected during open water
surveys; and 3) develop and calibrate a dynamic, predictive model for estimating
contaminant concentrations in phytoplankton and zooplankton from known water
concentrations.
Fate and Transport of Atrazine and Metabolites in the
Great Lakes
(GL995592-01-1: $57,425)
Recipient: University of Minnesota
Project Officer: Glenn Warren (312-886-2405)
Assistance for this LMMB Study continues. Samples from the
open waters of the lower Great Lakes, emphasizing Lake Michigan, will be analyzed for
Atrazine and its breakdown products. Alachlor and Metolachlor will also be quantified. The
data will contribute to a mass balance model. The persistence of the herbicides in the
Great Lakes will be determined.
Customization and Implementation of the Research Data
Management and Quality Control System
(GL995563-02-0: $10,000)
Recipient: Environment Canada
Project Officer: Lou Blume (312-353-2317)
Funding has been added to this project for development of a
Research Data Management and Quality Control software package for use in GLNPO. The
software will facilitate data verification and flagging for the Lake Michigan Mass Balance
study.
Lake Michigan Tributary Monitoring Program
(X995469-02: $580,000)
Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Gene Wojcik
Monitoring - Ontario
Sampling and Analysis [Trackdown Activities]
(GL002967-03K: $38,000)
Recipient: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Conduct follow-up activities based on results of FY94
toxic-source trackdown activities. New actions may include additional trackdown,
improvement of lower-detection-limit methods, identification of regulatory activities to
address sources found.
Investigation of Mercury Contamination in Lake
Ontario
(GL002967-03L: $63,000)
Recipient: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Evaluate risk associated with mercury "hot spot" in
Lake Ontario (3 miles off-shore, near mouth of Genesee River, 100 feet deep). Recommend
remedial actions, if necessary.
Lake Ontario Supplemental Biomonitoring Project
(GL992370-01: $42,000)
Recipient: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
Project Officer: Alice Yeh (212-637-3702)
Collect spottail shiners to identify significant sources of
BCCs into Lake Ontario. Collect bald eagle blood and egg tissue to monitor trends of
toxics in the lake ecosystem. As a top predator, the bald eagle is a good indicator of
conditions faced by a variety of species in the food web. Analyze netplankton chemical
concentrations as an indicator of food web toxic uptake. These data provide an early
indicator of toxics trends in the lake ecosystem.
Lake Ontario BioIndex Program
(DW14941715-0: $37,000)
Recipient: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Project Officer: Alice Yeh (212-637-3702)
Confirm that Lake Ontario total phosphorus levels are at
target levels and assess the health of Lake Ontario's pelagic community. This information
is crucial to the beneficial use impairment assessment of the Lake Ontario Lakewide
Management Plan.
Monitoring - Superior
Operation of Lake Superior IADN Site
(GL995473-01-2: $28,264)
Recipient: Michigan Tech.
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
Operation and maintenance of Eagle Harbor IADN site on Lake
Superior.
Mercury Emissions in the Lake Superior Region
(GL995438-01-1: $16,000)
Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Dave Anderson (312-353-2015)
The goals of the project are to determine the species of
mercury emitted to the atmosphere from a variety of sources in the Lake Superior basin and
the mercury deposition to the Lake Superior basin.
Monitoring - Multiple Lakes
Operation of Integrated Atmospheric Deposition
Network (IADN)
(GL995656-01-1: $218,795) (GL995656-01-2: $109,609 GLNPO / $200,428 OAQPS)
Recipient: Indiana University
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
This cooperative agreement allows Indiana University to
collect and analyze atmospheric samples for trace organic compmounds, PCBs,
organo-chlorine compounds, and PAHs at three IADN sites in the Great Lakes Basin. (Lakes
Superior & Michigan)
Continued Site Maintenance for IADN
(GL995476-01-3: $14,544)
Recipient: U. of IL - IL State Water Survey
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
This project supports completion of sampling and analytical
work and data interpretation for IADN sampling done by ISWS.
Toxic Atmospheric Deposition LK MI & LK SU
Loadings Study
(GL995483-01-1: $397,546 from OAQPS)
Recipient: U. of IL - IL State Water Survey
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
This project supports completion of sampling and analytical
work and data interpretation for IADN sampling done by ISWS. Additional sampling and
analysis were part of the Lake Michigan/Lake Superior Loadings Study.
Toxic Atmospheric Deposition LK MI & LK SU
Loadings Study
(GL995022-05-2: $48,950)
Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
Continuation of assistance to the WDNR for the maintenance
and operation of Wisconsin atmospheric monitoring sites included in the Lake Michigan Mass
Balance and Lake Superior Loading Study. Samples (air and precipitation) are collected by
WDNR and sent to the Illinois State Water Survey for analysis for PCBs, PAHs,
organochlorine compounds and trace metals.
Intercomparison of Precipitation Collectors for
Metals Determination in IADN (GL985136-01-1: $4,188)
Recipient: SUNY Research Foundation
Project Officer: Angela Bandemehr (312-886-6858)
The U.S. and Canada have been monitoring metals in
precipitation using a variety of methods and collectors. This project investigates the
uncertainty associated with the use of differing collectors and protocols. (Lakes
Superior, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario.)
Education/Outreach - Erie
Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and
Technology
(GL985016-01; $2,000,000)
Recipient: Great Lakes Science Center
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
The Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) is a non-profit
educational institution whose mission is to stimulate interest and increase understanding
of the sciences, with a particular emphasis on the interdependence of scientific,
environmental and technological activities in the Great Lakes region. Located in
Cleveland, Ohio, the center is currently under construction. This grant will help develop
a 10,000 square foot exhibition titled "The Great Lakes Environment." The
exhibition, central to the GLSC's mission, will feature over 90 interactive exhibits
focusing on the Great Lakes as an ecosystem.
Education/Outreach - Michigan
The Grand Traverse Bay Watershed Initiative
(NE985042-01-0: $24,956)
Recipient: Grand Traverse Bay Watershed Initiative
Project Officer: Steve Garbaciak (312-353-0117)
This environmental education grant will provide training and
support to 30 5th grade teachers on water monitoring based on Stapp's Field Manual for
Water Quality Monitoring. Grand Traverse Bay Watershed initiative will provide a two-week
summer institute for teachers, provide follow-up support for Fall and Spring monitoring
activities, and culminate the year's effort with a student congress.
Lake Michigan Mass Balance Project
(GL985106-01-0: $43,950)
Recipient: Lake Michigan Federation
Project Officer: Don Deblasio (312-353-3612)
Materials will be developed for a program that will increase
public awareness and understanding of past and present problems facing the Lake Michigan
ecosystem and the initiatives, with an emphasis on the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Project,
underway to improve the health of the Lake.
Education/Outreach - Superior
Lake Superior Public Forum Facilitation
(GL995906-01-4: $64,995)
Recipient: Northland College/Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
Project Officer: Mark Elster (312-886-3857)
$4,000 of this increase will fund Forum member travel to the
Lake Superior Binational Forum Public meeting being held at the IJC Biennial Meeting in
Duluth, MN Sept. 22-25, 1995. Under the revised grant, support will be used for
Forum-sponsored workshops addressing PCBs, mercury and dioxin. The remaining $60,995 will
provide funding for FY1996 facilitation of the Lake Superior Public Forum, continuing
support for the public involvement goals of the Lake Superior Binational Program.
Education/Outreach - Multiple
Lakes
Perception of Great Lakes Water Quality: Attitudinal
and Usage Study
(GL 995854-02-1: $13,810)
Recipient: Health Education Research, Inc.
Project Officer: Philip Hoffman (312-886-7478)
This amendment increased a previous award of $33,750 for the
research study of Great Lakes attitudes in an eight state area. The project was designed
to complement ongoing Great Lakes education efforts by assessing how the general public
processes information and what are their perceptions of environmental issues. The project
was completed in September 1995.
Research Data Management and Quality Control software
(GL99563-01-2: $10,000)
Recipient: Environment Canada
Project Officer: Lou Blume (312-353-2317)
Continues support for the development of the Research Data
Management and Quality Control (RDMQ) software package for use in GLNPO. This QA software
package will assist in the verification and flagging of data for the Lake Michigan Mass
Balance Program and the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN). RDMQ is
presently in use in Canada and will therefore provide a common link for qualifying IADN
data. RDMQ has the potential for use in all major GLNPO data collection activities.
Great Lakes Monitoring Database - Applications
Development
(DW89947742: $100,000)
IAG Recipient: US Department of Energy
Project Officer: George Mbogo (312-353-7463)
In order to expedite access to the voluminous Lake Michigan
Mass Balance datasets, the Department of Energy is providing its expertise in developing
and managing complex computer database applications. The applications developed under this
Interagency Agreement (IAG) will include data entry, data access and analysis software.
These applications will applicable to all additional project datasets in the Great Lakes
Monitoring Database.
Expand Great Lakes Information
(GL995708-01-1: $189,650)
Recipient: Great Lakes Commission
Project Officer: Pranas Pranckevicius (312-353-3437)
This additional support for this FY94 project will be used to
increase the public's accessibility to environmental data in the Great Lakes region and to
provide technical consultation, data and material support to partner organizations in
order to make their environmental data more accessible. The Recipient will incorporate
information compiled for the 1996 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference into the Great
Lakes Information Network and will host the 1996 Great Lakes Information Network
Conference April 9-10 in Lansing, MI.
State Capacity Grants:
- IEPA (GL985201-01-0
- MDNR (GL995381-01-5:)
- MPCA (part of cluster GL985131-01-0)
- NYSDEC (GL995389-01)
- OEPA (GL995647-01-1)
- WDNR (GL995918-01-03)
Contact: Michael Russ (312-886-4013)
Through $70,000 State Capacity grants, GLNPO is assisting
State Environmental Protection Agencies to better coordinate their management of and input
into the variety of Great Lakes federal programmatic activities occurring in the Basin.
Such activities currently include: LaMPs, RAPs, the USEPA Great Lakes Five Year Strategy,
the Great Lakes Initiative, state participation on the Binational Executive Committee,
data integration, and Great Lakes research activities. Pennsylvania did not participate in
these grants. IDEM was previously funded.
General LaMP/RAP Activities -
Lake Erie
Lake Erie LaMP
(GL002967-03E: $20,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Participate in Lake Erie LaMP development, including
attending workgroups/meetings; reviewing LaMP documents; providing NY-related data for
LaMP reports, to ensure that Niagara River priority toxics are addressed.
RAP/LaMP Coordination
(X995759-03: $880,000)
Recipient: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Project Officer: Nick Damato
Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan
(X995606-02: $1,231,694)
Recipient: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Project Officer:
Participation of LaMP and Other Great Lakes
Activities
(X995625-02: $6,500)
Recipient: Chippewa-Ottawa Treaty Fishery Management Authority
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funding will allow for the Authority's participation in
Lakewide Management Planning activities, including decision-making.
Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan
(X995609-02: $60,000)
Recipient: Clean Lakes, Inc.
State: Illinois
Project Officer: Francine Norling
Fund continued work on the public participation program for
the Lake Erie LaMP.
General LaMP/RAP Activities -
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan LaMP
(X995400-02: $70,000)
Recipient: InDEM
Project Officer: Gene Wojcik
Great Lakes AOC and LaMP Support
(X981390-01: $560,000)
Recipient: MiDNR
Project Officer: Gene Wojcik
General LaMP/RAP Activities - Lake Ontario
Implementation of Lake Ontario Toxics Management Plan
[LOTMP]
(GL002967-03B: $20,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Participate in LOTMP/LaMP implementation, including attending
workgroups/meetings; coordinating input into Lake Ontario monitoring needs workgroup;
developing Lake Ontario Coordination Committee reports.
RAP Development and Implementation
(GL002967-03C: $155,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Support development of RAPs for the 6 Areas of Concern (AOCs)
in New York State. Develop reports documenting actions for toxic chemical reductions at
each AOC.
General LaMP/RAP Activities -
Lake Superior
RAP/LaMP Coordination, Toxic Loading and Biocriteria
Testing
(X985104-01: $135,000)
Recipient: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Project Officer: Gene Wojcik
Lake Superior Lakewide Management Plan Activities
(X985211-01: $6,500)
Recipient: Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funding will allow for the Authority's participation in
Lakewide Management Planning activities, including decision-making.
Lake Superior Lakewide Management Plan Activities
(X995619-01: $3,500)
Recipient: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funding will allow for the Authority's participation in
Lakewide Management Planning activities, including decision-making.
Lake Superior Lakewide Management Plan Activities
(X995627-01" $3,500)
Recipient: 1854 Authority
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funding will allow for the Authority's participation in
Lakewide Management Planning activities, including decision-making.
Other - Ontario
Implementation of Niagara River Toxics Management
Plan [NRTMP]
(GL002967-03A: $32,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Participate in NRTMP implementation, including attending
workgroups/meetings; reviewing draft Declaration of Intent amendments; developing reports
required by Niagara River Coordination Committee.
Great Lakes Point Source Permit Review Project
(GL002967-03F: $150,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Improve Great Lakes point source permits by increasing
emphasis on reducing Lake Ontario/Niagara River priority toxics, enabling PCS to generate
accurate loadings data, lowering SPDES effluent limits for BCCs to correspond to
consistently achieved EEQ (only where EEQ < SPDES limits), and developing procedures to
reduce the discharge of toxics that cannot be regulated quantitatively.
Implementation of Great Lakes Water Quality Guidance
[GLWQG]
(GL002967-03G: $120,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Comply with GLWQG by modifying New York State water quality
standards and methodologies for developing standards, revising NYSDEC antidegradation
policy, and modifying NYSDEC water quality-based permit-writing procedures.
Coordinate Division of Water [DOW] Activities
(GL002967-03H: $82,000)
Recipient: NYSDEC
Project Officer: Barbara Spinweber (212-637-3848)
Coordinate implementation of Great Lakes-related activities
by serving as contact for BEC and IJC requests for meetings/comments on reports, ensuring
consistency and avoiding duplication in Great Lakes-related projects conducted by DOW and
other NYSDEC divisions, and ensuring that appropriate actions are taken following
identification of toxics sources in trackdown activities.
Other - Multiple Lakes
SOLEC '96
(GL985221-01-0: $50,000)
Recipient: Great Lakes Fisheries Commission
Project Officer: Kent Fuller (312-353-3503)
This cooperative agreement enables the Recipient to fully
participate in preparations for the 1996 State of the Lakes Conference and to support both
the steering committee and preparation of background papers. The Recipient will provide
both direct expertise and the benefit of its network of relationships with the many
partners that must become involved to provide an integrated ecosystem view of the state of
nearshore resources and stresses affecting them.
SOLEC '96/GL Atlas
(GL985192-01-0)
Recipient: Environment Canada
Project Officer: Kent Fuller (312-353-3503)
Environment Canada will assist in the development of the 1996
State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference and will print additional copies of the third
edition of the Great Lakes Atlas.
GLWQI Mussel Toxicity Optimization
(99482195: $50,000)
Recipient: Region 4 (Clemson University)
Project Officer: Rick Fox
The U.S. EPA is evaluating existing water quality criteria
and developing new criteria (including GLWQI) for the protection of endangered freshwater
mussels. This project will optimize and standardize the use of juvenile Utterbackla
imbecillis for toxicity testing.
Environmental Technology Transfer and Training for
Baltic Scientists
(GL985214-01-0; $17,000)
Recipient: Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Project Officer: Edward W. Klappenbach (312-353-1378)
Proposal provides logistical support for environmental
scientists from the Baltic Republics to attend the Fourth International Symposium on Fish
Physiology, Toxicology, and Water Quality, at Montana State University. The project brings
together aquatic scientists from several countries, including speakers from nine countries
in western and eastern Europe, Asia, and North America.
Water Pollution Control Program
(I995797-02: $38,000)
Recipient: Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee
State: Minnesota
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funding supports the development of federally recognized
Tribal water quality standards for water of the Reservation. Of great interest to the
Tribes is the protection of water for subsistence and culture uses, sustainable
development, and wild rice production.
Drafting and Adoption of Surface Water Quality
Standards
(I985109-01: $38,000)
Recipient: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
State: Michigan
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The grant will allow for the development of federally
recognized Tribal water quality standards for waters of the Reservation. Of great interest
to the Tribe is the protection of waters for subsistence and culture uses, sustainable
development, and wild rice production.
Water Pollution Control Program
(I995079-05: $10,000)
Recipient: Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funds will allow for the development of federally
recognized Tribal water quality standards for waters of the Reservation. Of great interest
to the Tribe is the protection of waters for subsistence and culture uses, sustainable
development, and wild rice production.
Water Resources and Water Monitoring
(X995621-02: $45,000)
Recipient: Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Project Officer: Claudia Johnson-Schultz (312) 886-6108
The funding will allow for the Tribe to contract with the
United States Geological Survey to perform water quality sampling and analysis for trace
metals and organics on the Wolf River, a tributary of Lake Michigan.
Development of Urban Water Control Programs
(CP995288-02: $40,000)
Recipient: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Project Officer: Ernie Lopez
Identification of present Lake management problems; provide
solutions to stagnation and high nutrient levels in Indian Lakes; and perform limited
watershed work to support future wetland restoration on the site.
Accelerating Environmental Technology Diffusion
(X985148-01: $197,000)
Recipient: Minnesota Office of the Attorney General
Project Officer: Charles Pycha
Develop and present training seminars, educational forums, a
technology fair and industry-sector focus groups to provide businesses of all sizes with
the information they need to become good customers of environmental technology.
Sustainable Development Initiative for Northwest
Indiana
(X985110-01: $100,000)
Recipient: Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
Project Officer: Jennifer Beese (312) 886-6713
Enable the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
to forge a sustainable development vision for the future of Northwest Indiana with
business/industry and government communities, in concert with local universities,
environmental organizations, labor and citizens. Specifically, it will support the
planning and development of a vision-setting process, as well as public education,
consensus-building efforts, and development of a sustainable development action plan.
Environmental Indicators on a Regional Scale:
Milwaukee River Basin Pilot
(X985171-01: $110,000)
Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Michael Phillips
The development of indicators to describe and evaluate
ecological conditions. These indicators can be used to address national and international
policy needs, assess ecosystem status and trends, anticipate emerging environmental
problems and broaden our understanding of ecosystem's structure and sectioning.
Zero Discharge Pilot Project
(X985119-01: $300,000)
Recipient: Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
Project Officer: Gene Wojcik
Development of Self Audit/Pollution Prevention
Program
(X985169-01: $50,000)
Recipient: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Project Officer: Matt Gluckman (312) 886-6089
To support development of a self-audit and pollution
prevention program to train staff of publicly owned treatment works in Southeast Michigan,
to maximize plant efficiencies and promote incorporation of pollution prevention into
industrial pretreatment programs.
Pollution Prevention Assistance to Publically Owned
Treatment Works
(X995418-01: $95,000)
Recipient: Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
Project Officer: Matt Gluckman (312) 886-6089
Develop an industrial pretreatment pollution prevention
program for Publicly Owned Treatment Works in the Southeast Michigan Area. SEMCOG will be
working closely with Michigan Department of Natural Resources in the selection of one or
two pilot plants for the development of this program.
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