The CEC North American Regional Action Plan on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

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The CEC North American Regional Action Plan on
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

• D C McKay

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The Presentation

• What is the Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC)
  within the Commission for Environmental
  Co-operation (CEC)
• What is a North American Regional Action Plan
  (NARAP)
• What is the Monitoring and Assessment NARAP
• How can MA NARAP National PBT Monitoring
  Strategy interact

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VISION STATEMENT

• The Commission for Environmental Cooperations
• Initiative on the Sound Management of Chemicals
• will provide leadership to promote the sound
• management of chemicals in North America and
• through this work will offer a successful model
  for
• international cooperation in other regions of the
• world.

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INTENDED OUTCOMES

• Intended Outcomes of the Sound Management of
  Chemicals
• Initiative
• Reduction of persistent toxic substances in the
  North American environment.
• Improvement of North American capacities for the
  Sound Management of Chemicals, including
  preparing the three Parties to sign and ratify
  the emerging Global Convention on Persistent
  Organic Pollutants.
• Improved monitoring and assessment of persistent
  toxic substances in the North American
  environment.

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INTENDED OUTCOMES

• Intended Outcomes of the Sound Management of
  Chemicals
• Initiative (continued)
• Ongoing assessment of substances harmful to the
  environment, including their possible selection
  for North American regional action.
• Increased trilateral cooperation to address
  persistent toxic substances in North America.

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Monitoring and Assessment

• NARAP

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Purpose of NARAP

• Provide a course of action to increase
  information on PTS in North America.
• Cooperate to establish trends and effects of PTS.
• Focus on capacity building.
• Stimulate cooperation between experts and
  officials.
• Work toward virtual elimination of PTS.
• Advance international initiatives to reduce PTS.

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NARAP OBJECTIVES

• Establish a North American Reference Network of
  designated Integrated Index Sites.
• Identify and recommend Satellite Sites.
• Identify and recommend Reference Data Sets.
• Plan and initiate exposure survey of newborn
  children, infants, and reference communities.
• Produce biennial progress reports on PTS in North
  America.
• Assess progress addressing Council Resolution
  95-05.

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Actions to Meet Objectives

• Build Integrated Index Sites Reference Network.
• Establish a form to implement the NARAP.
• Identify Satellite Sites and Reference Data Sets.
• Initiate baseline exposure survey for children,
  infants, and reference communities.
• Establish collaborative sites for substances.
  addressed by existing NARAPs.
• Promote capacity building.

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Actions to Meet Objectives

• Build a North American Reference Network of
  Integrated Index Sites for the environmental
  monitoring and assessment of persistent toxic
  substances in North America.
• Establish an international forum to implement the
  NARAP
• Identify and designate Satellite Sites to be
  associated with the North American Reference
  Network on Persistent and Toxic substances.
• Identify and designate Reference Data Sets to
  be associated with the North American Reference
  Network on Persistent and Toxic substances.

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Actions to Meet Objectives

• Initiate a baseline survey in the North American
  region of the exposure of newborn children and
  infants to persistent toxic substances.
• Initiate a baseline survey in the North American
  region of the exposure of reference communities,
  populations or occupations believed to have a
  higher than average exposure to persistent toxic
  substances.

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Actions to Meet Objectives

• Establish initial collaborative monitoring sites
  for monitoring certain persistent toxic
  substances currently being addressed under other
  North American Regional Action Plans. These
  sites are to be extensions of existing networks
  in the United States and Canada and they may or
  may not be eventually designated as Integrated
  Index Sites or Satellite Sites

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Actions to Meet Objectives

• Actively promote and encourage cooperation to
  build capacity, especially in Mexico, where
  capacity building refers generally to the
  development and re-enforcement of the different
  elements required to improve and sustain the
  ability of governments and stakeholders to
  facilitate the advancement of SMOC (Sound
  Management of Chemicals) obligations and
  commitments, particularly in promoting the North
  American Regional Action Plans (NARAPs)

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WEB SITES

• General CEC
• http//www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlanenglish
• MA NARAP (MAY 8)
• http//www.cec.org/programs_projects/pollutants_he
  alth/321/index.cfm?varlanenglish