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FY 1993 - 1994 Project SummariesProjects funded by the Great Lakes National Program Office and the Water Divisions of USEPA Regions 2 and 3 Overview
 This document is a first attempt to briefly describe what the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) funds each year for its Great Lakes partners. With this information, USEPA and its partners can better identify what is being done and what critical gaps need to be filled. Most of the included projects were sponsored by the Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) and the Water Divisions of Regions 2 and 3 during Fiscal Years (FY) 1993 and 1994. The Summaries cover some 160 projects totaling over $21 million which were funded during these two years. There are 3 Parts to the Summaries. Part I: Projects Not Based on Grants includes projects having basin-wide impact, but which are being implemented by means other than grants. Part II: Multiple-Lake Projects includes grants, cooperative agreements, and inter-agency agreements intended to have a direct impact beyond a single Basin. Part III: Lake-Specific Projects includes grants, cooperative agreements, and inter-agency agreements which are principally focused on activities within a single Basin and its Areas of Concern. Each entry identifies the project title, grant number and amount, recipient, USEPA project officer and phone number, and a brief project description. The project information is summary in nature and is not intended to provide up-to-date status and results. Many of these projects have been completed. Project Officers are available to provide detailed, current information. Project Officers can also describe the relationship of individual grants to larger projects such as the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study
PART I: PROJECTS NOT BASED ON GRANTS
USEPA and its partners have undertaken a number of important projects having basin-wide impact which are being implemented by means other than grants. Descriptions follow. Virtual Elimination Pilot Project. The Virtual Elimination Project began in FY93 with the purpose of identifying ways to get rapid reductions of the targeted chemicals with a specific focus on PCBs and Mercury. During the first public meeting that year, some 70 stakeholders were briefed and given an overview of the project. In 1994, Phase I of the project began which involved researching the uses, sources and regulations relating to mercury and PCBs in the Great Lakes basin. General findings and observations were summarized in three comprehensive reports, sent out to Great Lakes stakeholders in preparation for the second VE meeting, held in September 1994. At this meeting, stakeholders were asked to make recommendations on how to further accelerate reductions in mercury and PCBs. Also in 1994, as an outgrowth of this project, the US Department of Defense suspended sales of stockpiled mercury. In 1995, the project entails developing an options paper presenting ways to further accelerate reductions and incorporating the recommendations and observations that came out of the VE meeting. Integrated Great Lakes Information Management. GLNPO and its state and Federal partners are seeking to enhance the integration of Great Lakes information. Great Lakes system development efforts are focused on providing desk-top access to facility, site, and land-use information integrated with air and water monitoring data. The ultimate system will facilitate tracking of Great Lakes environmental health and trends, linking day-to-day pollution control activities with key environmental indicators and allowing for sound, science-based decisions to be made from the manager's desktop. To date, GLNPO has worked with EPA's Office of Information Resources Management in the development of Great Lakes Envirofacts, a system which allows user-friendly access with geographic display to five major EPA programmatic data bases (CERCLIS, FINDS, PCS, RCRIS, and TRIS) through either a desk-top windows application or via the Internet. In further pursuit of better access to Great Lakes information, GLNPO has established the Great Lakes Information Network and the GLNPO Gopher, two Internet servers that provide public access to multi-agency information and activities in the Basin. GLTRE/GLWQI. Information regarding the Great Lakes Toxics Reduction Effort and the Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative is expected for next year's Project Summaries.
PART II: MULTIPLE-LAKE PROJECTS
Excluding the Capacity, Coordinator, and Cluster grants described below, this Part includes project descriptions for 22 projects in FY93 and 23 projects in FY94 totaling $3,287,282 and $1,788,132, respectively, which are intended to have a direct impact beyond a single Basin.
PART III: LAKE-SPECIFIC PROJECTS
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