New York Great Lakes Initiative

New York Great Lakes Initiative for Science and Education
New York Has Not Received Its Fair Share of Federal Great Lakes Funding
To date New York has not received our equitable share of federal resources devoted to the Great Lakes. What would a fair share be? New York has 19% of the Great Lakes Areas of Concern, 12% of Great Lakes shoreline, 14% of the drainage area, 18% of the population, and pays 20% of the total federal taxes paid by Great Lakes states. From this estimate New York’s fair share should be between 15-20%. Calculating the actual amount New York has received using data gathered by the Congressional Research Service and the GLRC, New York received between 3% and 8%, depending on how the estimates are derived.
This inequity has resulted from the same geographic factors we faced when the Consortium was founded. All of the major federal programs and laboratories are located near the upper lakes, in Minnesota (EPA Environmental Research Labs), Wisconsin, Illinois (EPA Large Lakes Research Station, Great Lakes National Program Office) and Michigan (NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, National Biological Service Great Lakes Science Center, US Fish and Wildlife Service Great Lakes Fishery Lab, EPA Large Lakes Research Center, Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes District Office, USGS Water Resources Division, Great Lakes Fishery Commission). Without significant new investment in Great Lakes science in New York, this unequal distribution of resources will continue well into the future.
Great Lakes Research Consortium scientists have been warning for some time that despite the clean-up successes of the last two decades, New York’s Great Lakes are highly altered ecosystems, unstable and prone to crisis.	The Growing Great Lakes Crisis The Crisis of the Late 1960s and 70s The Scientific Response The Origins of the Great Lakes Research Consortium The Need to Support Science in New York New York Has Not Received Its Fair Share of Federal Great Lakes Funding
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What is New York’s
Fair Share?

New York possesses-

19% of Great Lakes Areas of Concern
12% of Great Lakes shoreline
14% of drainage area
18% of basin population
20% of total federal taxes paid by Great Lakes states

New York’s fair share should be between 15%-20%.

New York receives
between 3% and 8%.*

Based on data supplied by Congressional Research Office and other sources analyzed by the GLRC.

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