REVIEW OF ANNEX 1 OF THE GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY AGREEMENT

S., the Office of Management and Budget, under the president's direction, has the authority to review the terms of an international agreement to make sure that nothing in the agreement would commit the United States to any financial or other requirements which is not in keeping with the existing authorities, appropriations, or legislative priorities in the current laws. [...] Finally, it is important in our deliberations with regard to the Annex 1 objectives, that we recognize and attempt to have some consistency with several other ongoing programs in the Great Lakes, to name a few, the Lakewide Management Plan process, the indicators that are being developed and applied with the SOLEC (State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference) process, and the Great Lakes Binational To. [...] Questions and Discussion Pupp: Regarding the monitoring aspect of the work that you did, did you consider what that would contribute to the question of what to do with Annex 1? Of course, we would like to know the state of the lakes, what are the levels and, of course, we would like to compare these with the goals, but if we are questioning whether the goals set in Annex 1 are valid, how would one. [...] Endrin was an example? Fisher: To what extent did you find that those parameters for which the objectives came from the Food and Drug Administration originally, were really dominating the ones that were not being monitored? In my experience, of all the parameters on the Great Lakes lists that received the least monitoring, the ones that originally came from the Food and Drug Administration were am. [...] But the origin of a lot of the parameters, you compare the ones that show up on the Food and Drug Administration are the ones that are not being monitored.