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Great Lakes Article:

Bergson, Ross to sign Great Lakes Declaration
BusinessNorth.com
Published November 24th, 2004

News Advisory:

Dozens of government officials and Tribal representatives will convene in Chicago to sign a Great Lakes Declaration and a framework document for the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration. Officials in attendance will include members of President Bush's cabinet, United States senators and congressmen, state senators and representatives, and Great Lakes governors, Tribes, and mayors.

The Great Lakes Declaration is an intergovernmental pledge of support for the development of a strategy to further protect and restore the Great Lakes through the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration process. The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Framework Document outlines the process for developing a Great Lakes restoration and protection strategy.

WHO:

Confirmed Attendees Include: EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt, Secretary Tom Ridge, Jim Connaughton, Governor George Pataki, Governor Jim Doyle, Governor Bob Taft, Governor Rod Blagojevich, Senator Richard Durbin, Congressman Vernon Ehlers, Congresswoman Judy Biggert, Congressman Mark Kirk, Congressman Rahm Emanuel, Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, Frank Ettawageshik, Chairman, Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians and fifteen other Tribal leaders, Mayor Richard Daley (Chicago, Ill.), Mayor Scott King (Gary, Ind.) Mayor Jerry Irby (Marquette, Mich.), Mayor George Heartwell (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Mayor Herb Bergson (Duluth, Mich.), Mayor Jack Ford (Toledo, Ohio), Mayor Richard E. Filippi (Erie, Pa.), Mayor Tom Barrett (Milwaukee, Wis.), Mayor Gary Becker (Racine, Wis.), Mayor Dave Ross (Superior, Wis.), and others.

Additional Invitees Include: Other cabinet members, Great Lakes governors, United States senators and representatives, Tribal leaders, and mayors.

WHAT: Great Lakes Regional Collaboration meeting and signing of the Great Lakes Declaration document

WHEN: Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. (Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m.)

WHERE: Hilton Chicago Hotel (International Ballroom), 720 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Ill. 60605 312-922-4400

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