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

The CEC North American Regional Action Plan on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. D C McKay. 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)

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

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  1. The CEC North American Regional Action Plan on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment D C McKay

  2. 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 M&A NARAP & National PBT Monitoring Strategy interact

  3. VISION STATEMENT The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Monitoring and Assessment NARAP

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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”

  13. 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)

  14. WEB SITES • General CEC • http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english • M&A NARAP (MAY 8) • http://www.cec.org/programs_projects/pollutants_health/321/index.cfm?varlan=english

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