The Governor of the State of Montana may also appoint a chief elective 

 official of local government to participate as an ex officio member 

 of the Committee in its technical deliberations. The Saskatchewan 

 Minister of the Environment may also appoint a similar local represen- 

 tative. 



B. Functions of the Committee 



The role of the Committee will be to fulfill the purpose of the 

 Arrangement by ensuring the exchange of monitored data in accordance 

 with the attached Technical Monitoring Schedules, and its collation 

 and technical interpretation in reports to Governments on implementa- 

 tion of the Arrangement. In addition, the Committee will review the 

 existing monitoring systems to ensure their adequacy and may recommend 

 to the Canadian and United States Governments any modifications to 

 improve the technical monitoring schedules. 



1. Information Exchange 



Each Cochairman will be responsible for transmitting to his counter- 

 part Cochairman on a regular, and not less than quarterly basis, 

 the data provided by the cooperative monitoring agencies in accor- 

 dance with the Technical Monitoring Schedules. 



2. Reports 



(a) The Committee will prepare a joint Annual Report to the partici- 

 pating governments, and may at any time prepare joint Special 

 Reports. 



(b) Annual Reports will 



i) summarize the main activities of the Committee in the year 

 under Report and the data which has been exchanged under 

 the Arrangement; 



ii) draw to the attention of the participating governments any 

 definitive changes in the monitored parameters, based on 

 collation and technical interpretation of exchanged data 

 (i.e. the utilization of summary, statistical and other 

 appropriate techniques); 



iii) draw to the attention of the participating governments any 

 recommendations regarding the adequacy or redundancy of any 

 scheduled monitoring operations and any proposals regarding 

 modifications to the Technical Monitoring Schedules, based 

 on a continuing review of the monitoring programs including 

 analytical methods to ensure their comparability. 



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