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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is the largest investment in the Great Lakes in two decades. EPA is soliciting applications for grants and cooperative agreements to be awarded under GLRI.
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (multi-agency website)
GLRI Action Plan FY 2010 - FY 2014 (PDF) (41pp, 1.3MB About PDF) February 2010.
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Great Lakes Topics
- Areas of Concern (AOCs)
- Contaminated Sediments
- Ecosystems
- Environmental Indicators
- Funding Program
- Great Lakes Atlas
- Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy
- Great Lakes Ecosystem Report
- Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA)
- Human Health Program
- Invasive Species
- Lakewide Management Plans
- Monitoring Program
- Great Lakes Image Collection
Other Topics of Interest
About the Great Lakes Program
Pollution Prevention & Toxic Reductions
State-of-the-Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC)
Great Lakes Atlas
Visualizing the Great Lakes Image Collection
Sampling Procedures
Quality Management
Landscaping with Native Plants (Greenacres)
Native Vegetation Enhancement Project
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) 2012 Request for Applications announced
The Great Lakes form the largest surface freshwater system on the Earth. More than 30 million people live in the Great Lakes basin, and the impact of their daily activities, from the water consumed to the waste returned, directly affects the Great Lakes environment.
Recognition
In May 2004, a Presidential Executive Order was signed recognizing the Great Lakes as a national treasure, calling for the creation of a "Regional Collaboration of National Significance 
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and a cabinet-level federal Great Lakes Interagency Task Force.
The U.S.- Canadian Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy issues annual reports. To date, 12 of the 17 goals for source- and emissions-reductions set in 1997 have been met, and the rest are well advanced.
The Great Lakes Legacy Act provides funding to take the necessary steps to clean up contaminated sediment in "Areas of Concern" (AOCs) located wholly or partially in the United States. Forty-three AOCs have been identified: 26 located entirely within the United States; 12 located wholly within Canada; and five that are shared by both countries.
The United States and Canada together assess the ecological health of the Great Lakes ecosystem and follow the trends of Great Lakes ecosystem conditions. /State of the Lakes Ecosystem/
This site provides information about efforts to keep the lakes clean for the people, animals, and plants that depend on them.