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 Cochairman will be responsible for transmitting to his counterpart 

 Cochairman 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 wil 1 



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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