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 

 representative. 



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 

 implementation 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 Co-chairman will be responsible for transmitting to his 

 counterpart Co-chairman on a regular, and not less than quarterly, 

 basis, the data provided by the cooperative monitoring agencies in 

 accordance with the Technical Monitoring Schedules. 



2. Reports 



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

 participating governments, and may at any time prepare joint 

 Special Reports. 



(b) Annual Reports will 



1) 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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