The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement commits Canada and the United States to prepare and issue Binational Strategies to reduce the release and impact of Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMC). The draft strategies for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) are now available for public review on binational.net. The period for interested agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft binational strategies has been extended from July 17 to July 31, 2017.
* DRAFT Binational Strategy for PCB Risk Management PDF (1.9 MB)
* DRAFT Binational Strategy for HBCD Risk Management PDF (964K)
Kindly use the Contact Us page to direct your submissions and questions by July 31, 2017.
More information on the Chemicals of Mutual Concern can be found at http://binational.net/dev/2016/05/31/cmcdesig-pcpmdesig/.