Review of Lake Superior Lakewide Management Plan

摘要

This document provides opportunity for comment on the proposed Stage 1 Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) for Lake Superior. This Stage 1 LaMP, when finalized, will serve to satisfy the obligations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) under Section 118 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). It also serves as a report on progress under the Binational Program to Restore and Protect Lake Superior. This proposed LaMP was developed through a binational process involving EPA, Environment Canada, the Province of Ontario, and the States of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin under the ongoing implementation of the Binational Program. EPA puts forward this proposed LaMP for public comment in the United States on behalf of the agencies involved in the Binational Program. The proposed Lake Superior LaMP describes a selected list of Critical Pollutants causing or contributing to adverse impacts on the Lake Superior ecosystem based on information available as of January 1, 1991, and informs the public of the variety of actions that Federal, State, Provincial, Tribal, and local governments and private organizations are taking, will take, or could take to reduce the amount of th