PBT Management and Reporting Programs

Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS)

The GLBTS provides a framework for actions to reduce or eliminate persistent toxic substances from the Great Lakes Basin. The Strategy establishes reduction challenges for an initial list of persistent toxic substances targeted for virtual elimination: aldrin/dieldrin, benzo(a)pyrene, chlordane, DDT, hexachlorobenzene, alkyl-lead, mercury and compounds, mirex, octachlorostyrene, PCBs, dioxins and furans, and toxaphene.

• GLBTS 2002 Annual Progress Report: Environmental Indicators of Change - Trends in Ambient Air

A summary of existing atmospheric PBT monitoring data for the Great Lakes region.

• Long-Range Transport Workshop 2003

The GLBTS challenges EC and the U.S. EPA to evaluate the contribution and significance of long-range transport of these substances from worldwide sources to the Great Lakes. In response to this challenge and the growing evidence of long-range transport, EC and the U.S. EPA, with the support of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the International Joint Commission (IJC), organized this workshop as a further step under the GLBTS to work with international experts to characterize and ultimately reduce releases of such substances.

Great Waters Program

In 1990, in response to mounting evidence that air pollution contributes to water pollution, Congress amended the Clean Air Act and included provisions that established research and reporting requirements related to the deposition of hazardous air pollutants to the "Great Waters." The waterbodies designated by these provisions are the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, Chesapeake Bay, and certain other coastal waters.

• National Air Toxics Deposition Monitoring Meta-Database

The EPA Great Waters Program is developing a national toxics deposition monitoring metadatabase. Its purpose is to identify activities related to monitoring of atmospheric deposition of toxic air pollutants.

• Frequently Asked Questions About Atmospheric Deposition: A Handbook for Watershed Managers

EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds: Air Pollution and Water Quality - Atmospheric Deposition

EPA’s Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) Chemical Program

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC) Program

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Chemicals

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants:  Legislation

EPA POPs Booklet

The Foundation for Global Action on Persistent Organic Pollutants: a United States Perspective

POPs Factsheet (USEPA)

POPs in the Marine Environment Factsheet (UNEP)

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