In his October 2009 Annual Report, Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, commented positively on the adoption of the Canada-Ontario Decision-Making Framework for Assessment of Great Lakes Contaminated Sediment. Commissioner Miller noted that the Framework "enhances the scientific assessment process for contaminated sediments" and praised the "comprehensive public consultation and national and international peer-review" conducted as part of its development. The Framework was developed under the Canada-Ontario Agreement (COA) jointly by Environment Canada (EC) and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to harmonize federal and provincial approaches to sediment assessment. EC members of the COA Sediment Task Group, which oversaw the Framework development, were Janette Anderson (co-chair), Lee Grapentine, Roger Santiago and Michael Zarull.
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