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Article: Great Lakes: Organizational Leadership and Restoration Goals Need to Be Better Defined for Monitoring Restoration Progress.
- Article from:
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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GAO-04-1024 September 28, 2004
The Great Lakes remain environmentally vulnerable, prompting the United States and Canada to agree on actions to preserve and protect them. As requested, this report (1) determines the extent to which current EPA monitoring efforts provide information for assessing overall conditions in the Great Lakes Basin, (2) identifies existing restoration goals and whether monitoring is done to track goal progress, and (3) identifies the major challenges to setting restoration goals and developing a monitoring system.
Current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitoring does not provide the comprehensive information needed to ...