This Environmental Cooperation Agreement between the Province of British Columbia and the State of Washington establishes an Environmental Initiative to promote and coordinate mutual efforts to ensure protection, preservation and enhancement of the environment for the benefit of the current and future generations. The Agreement invites the parties to develop an environmental action plan to address environmental problems. The Environmental Initiative’s purpose is to ensure coordinated action and information-sharing on environmental matters of mutual concern. The Environmental Initiative describes its working procedures, the preliminary actions and the following priority issues: water quality initiative on Georgia Basin/Puget Sound, Columbia River/Lake Roosevelt; Nooksack River flooding; regional air quality management; management of groundwater in the Sumas-Abbotsford area; solid, hazardous and biomedical waste cooperation; water resources management; wetlands protection.
Canada, United States of America · 1992-05-07