RE: Keeping the Great Lakes Compact Strong: Update the Compact Council and Regional Body Procedures to Ensure Effective Public Participation in Diversion Decision-making

Our coalition supports all of the detailed concerns and suggested fixes to improve the published draft documents that are outlined in the comments submitted by Alliance for the Great Lakes (AGL), National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA). We summarize those concerns below and otherwise adopt the detailed substance of the referenced comments as our own. We also have included here a couple of additional comments our member organizations have on the proposed package