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GLRI Action Plans | Reports to Congress | GLRI Guidance and Implementation | GLRI Creation and Establishment | GLRI Authorizations | GLRI Partnership and Engagement

GLRI Action Plans

Federal agencies do the work of the GLRI guided by five-year Action Plans, developed with input from states, tribes, local governments, universities, business and others. Amended Clean Water Act Section 118(c)(7)(G) requires the Action Plan to be reviewed and revised not less often than once every five years.

• GLRI Action Plan III (FY2020-2024)
• GLRI Action Plan II (FY2015-2019)
• GLRI Action Plan I (FY2010-2014)

Reports to Congress and the President

Federal agencies report GLRI progress in Reports to Congress and the President. Amended Clean Water Act Section 118(c)(7)(H) requires the EPA Administrator to report on GLRI progress to Committees of the House and Senate.

• Fiscal Year 2020 - Fiscal Year 2021 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2019 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2018 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2017 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2016 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2015 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2010 - FY2014 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2012 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2011 GLRI Report to Congress
• Fiscal Year 2010 GLRI Report to Congress

GLRI Guidance and Implementation

• GLRI Environmental Accomplishments in the Great Lakes Implementation Manual - September 2021
• GLRI Action Plan III Measures Reporting Plan - September 2021
• Adaptive Management Process 2016 

Creation and Establishment of GLRI

• Establishment of Great Lakes Interagency Task Force and Promotion of a Regional Collaboration of National Significance for the Great Lakes May 18, 2004. Executive Order 13340 (PDF)
• Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy (PDF) - December 2005

GLRI Authorizations (first and current)

• Public Law 111-88, October 30, 2009 / Interior Department and Further Continuing Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2010
• 33 U.S. Code Section 1268 – Great Lakes
  • (GPO.gov link)
• Public Law 116-294, January 5, 2021/ Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2019

GLRI Partnership and Engagement

• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Distinct Tribal Program Framework
• Lakewide Action and Management Plans and Biodiversity Conservation Strategies