On November 15, 1990 the U.S. Congress amended the Clean Air Act and included provisions that established research and reporting requirements related to the deposition of hazardous air pollutants to the "Great Waters." The waterbodies designated by these provisions are the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, and Chesapeake Bay, and certain other coastal waters. The Office of Air Quality and Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides access to a summary and a downloadable version in PDF format of the second report that was submitted to the U.S. Congress in June 1997 on the atmospheric deposition of pollutants to the Great Waters.

Annual publication on environmental issues regarding the Great Lakes. This year's report highlights Lake Huron, "the forgotten lake," in the hopes of elevating it as a concern for policy makers in the region. Also includes: directional drilling for oil and gas below the Great Lakes; climate change in the Great Lakes Basin; Lake St. Clair: A Changing System; Great Lakes islands; Michigan State Waterways Commission; Great Lakes water levels; Air Toxics Deposition to the Great Lakes; ecological implications of impervious surfaces; 1997 Great Lakes fishery in review; and waterfront redevelopment. Illustrated.