The Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards will meet at Grand Valley State University's Eberhard Center, 301 W. Fulton Street, at 1 p.m. for Great Lakes Restoration: How? How Soon?
The subcommittee is interested in looking at the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration science recommendations more closely. They want to find out what the top priorities should be, given current resources and whether those priorities would change if new funding becomes available.
The subcommittee will also be asking to what extent has the GLRC encouraged and enabled effective scientific input for resource management policy decisions and to what extent has the GLRC helped foster new or stronger collaboration between scientists and policy makers, among other things.
Great Lakes members on the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology
and Standards include:
Vern Ehlers, R-Mich., chair, Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., Judy Biggert,
R-Ill, Timothy Johnson, R-Ill and Joe Schwarz, R-Mich. Other Great
Lakes members on the full Science Committee include: Curt Weldon,
R-Pa., Michael Sodrel, R-Ind. and Jerry Costello, D-Ill.
Other witnesses at the briefing will include representatives from the Great Lakes National Program Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the Coastal Management Program of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Healing Our Waters Coalition.
