1:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Nancy Sutley Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality

1:20 pm Overview of Federal Efforts

Task Force Members
Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Robert Verchick, Deputy Associate Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency
John Balbus, Senior Advisor on Public Health at National Institutes of Health
Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary for Civil Works at the Department of the Army

1:55 pm Focusing on the Region

George Heartwell Mayor of Grand Rapids Michigan

2:00 pm Great Lakes Ecosystem Panel

Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the Administrator for the Great Lakes at the Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. James F. Kitchell, Professor of Zoology at the Center for Limnology at University of Wisconsin
Nancy Schuldt, Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa Indians
Andy Buchsbaum, Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation

2:50 pm Public Comments

3:30 pm Great Lakes Urban Infrastructure Panel

Scott Bernstein, President of the Center for Neighborhood Technology
Lynn Broaddus, Director of Environment Programs at the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread
Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Environment
Dr. Jonathan Patz, Professor & Director of Global Environmental Health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

4:20 pm Public Comment and Closing Remarks

Nancy Sutley Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality