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Stakeholders Meeting - November 19, 1999
Draft Summary of Integration Group Meeting

POTENTIAL ACTIONS TO PROMOTE FURTHER PROGRESS

This is a transcription of a flip chart list developed during an informal brainstorming session at the Binational Toxics Strategy Integration Workgroup meeting on November 19, 1999, in Chicago. Partners who expressed interest in taking or sharing responsibility for specific actions are noted in parentheses. (It was noted that the list contains several items that could be combined with or subsumed under others.) EPA and EC agreed to consider these suggestions and recommend follow up actions they could take. In the interim, partners were encouraged to take action on their own where appropriate.

  1. PCP Workshop (Pesticides Workgroup with HCB and Dioxin Workgroup Coordination)
  2. Link with CEC
  3. Clean Technologies Seminars for Selected Sectors (GLU, WLSSD, C2P2, NWF, Minnesota, LSA)
  4. Follow up with utilities on PCBs
  5. Regular updates on challenge goal progress (CGLI)
  6. Communication on impacts of poor quality burning, including barrel burning, wood stoves, and outdoor furnaces (CGLI, WLSSA)
  7. Outreach on lead in candles
  8. Support to the EPA headquarters national conference on PBTs/possible binational approach (CGLI)
  9. Follow up on "front-end" separation of wastes scheduled for incineration (GLU, CGLI)
  10. Recruit key sectors, including utilities, incineration operators, municipalities; possible national outreach (CGLI, NWF)
  11. Follow up on cross-cutting sectors affecting several workgroups, including incineration and utilities for which timing issues are important (Minnesota, GLU)
  12. Recognition for successes (C2P2, WLSSD)
  13. Education and awareness on PCB equipment
  14. Outreach to industry on cost-effectiveness of toxics prevention/elimination (CGLI, C2P2, PCB Workgroup)
  15. Fill data gaps (CGLI)
  16. Coordinate with other initiatives (CGLI, NWF, Minnesota)
  17. Expand wood-stove change-up program (Michigan, GTBWSI)
  18. Outreach to chemical industry (CGLI, Michigan)
  19. Establish science panel on workgroup closure (CGLI)
  20. Follow up on long range/out of basin transport issues including multi-media transfer of pollutants and specific superfund actions in other regions (WLSSD, NWF, Delta Institute, LSA, Minnesota, CGLI)
  21. Establish new workgroup on PBBs/flame retardants (Minnesota)

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