Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

To accelerate the restoration of the Great Lakes, the President’s FY 2010 budget includesa new $475 million inter-agency initiative to address issues that affect the Great Lakes,such as invasive species, non-point source pollution, and toxics and contaminatedsediment. The Initiative builds upon five years of work of the Great Lakes InteragencyTask Force (IATF) and stakeholders, guided by the Great Lakes Regional CollaborationStrategy. The Initiative supports federal projects and over $250 million in grants andproject agreements, jump-starting achievement of long term goals: safely eating the fishand swimming at our beaches, assuring safe drinking water, and providing a healthyecosystem for fish and wildlife.

The Initiative was announced in May of 2009 as part of the President’s FY2010 budget.
Information about the Initiative, Agency-by-Agency funding allocations, and general
descriptions of the work they will do has been posted to
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/glri/index.html