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Chapter: Appendix A: Guest Speakers at Committee Meetings

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Guest Speakers at Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2008. Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12051.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Guest Speakers at Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2008. Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12051.
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Appendix A Guest Speakers at Committee Meetings Nonprofit Organizations and Trade Associations Gretchen Bonfert, The McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota Doug Daigle, Lower Mississippi Sub-basin Committee on Hypoxia, New Orleans, Louisiana Jon Devine, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. Jerry Enzler, National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa Ted Heisel, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, St. Louis, Missouri William Herz, The Fertilizer Institute, Washington, D.C. Oliver Houck, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Maxine Lipeles, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Don Parrish, American Farm Bureau, Washington, D.C. Richard Sparks, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, Alton, Illinois Holly Stoerker, Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, St. Paul, Minnesota Nancy Stoner, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. Roger Wolf, Iowa Soybean Association, Urbandale, Iowa Federal Agencies Richard Batiuk, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Annapolis, Maryland 227

228 MISSISSIPPI RIVER WATER QUALITY AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT David Bolgrien, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Duluth, Minnesota William Franz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago, Illinois Ron Nassar, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee, Vicksburg, Mississippi Amy Parker, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Diane Regas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Jeff Stoner, U.S. Geological Survey, Mounds View, Minnesota Mike Sullivan, U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, Little Rock, Arkansas State Agencies Phil Bass, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Jackson, Mississippi Charles Correll, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, Iowa Steven Heiskary, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, Minnesota Richard Ingram, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee, Vicksburg, Mississippi Dean Lemke, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Des Moines, Iowa Dugan Sabins, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Baton Rouge, Louisiana John Sullivan, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, La Crosse, Wisconsin Tom VanArsdall, Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Frankfort, Kentucky Marcia Willhite, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, East Springfield, Illinois Jim Wise, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Little Rock, Arkansas

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The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.

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