Reports

Bound copies of these reports can be obtained free of charge by faxing your request to WGA at 303-534-7309.

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Air Quality

• Air Quality Initiative - Action Report (1997)
• Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission: Recommendations for Improving Western Vistas (1996)

Economic Development

• Financing Electricity Transmission Expansion in the West: A Report to the Western Governors (February 2002)
• Conceptual Plans for Electricity Transmission in the West (2001)
• Cadastral Data and Policy Forum Final Report (2001)
• Electric Industry Restructuring Roundtable Report (1996)

Environmental Management

• Abandoned Mine Cleanup in the West: A Partnership Report (1998) -- PDF File format
• Improving the State Implementation Plan Process (1997)
• Mixed Waste Working Group Final Report (1996)
• Abandoned Mine Waste Working Group Final Report (1996)
• Military Munitions Working Group Final Report (1996)
• Hazardous Waste Generic Technologies Working Group Final Report (1996)
• Interstate Technology and Regulatory Cooperation Working Group Final Report (1996)
1. Low Temperature Thermal Desorption Protocol
2. In Situ Bioremediation Protocol
3. Plasma Technologies
4. Cone Penetrometer (SCAPS-LIF)

Regional Forum on Military Base Technology (1996)

Health

• The Health Passport Project: Assessment and Recommendations -- executive summary (2002)
• Final Report: Sixth Annual Western Summit on Indian Health Care, August 29-31, 1999.   Please contact WGA for a copy.
• The State Child Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) Western State Schip Implementation Update for the Fifth Annual Western Summit on Indian Health Care (1998)
• Telemedicine Action Update (1998)
• Health-Care On-Ramps: A Road Map to Western States' Information Highways (1998)
• The State Child Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) and American Indian and Alaska Native Children (1997)
• A Western States' Effort to Address Telemedicine Policy Barriers (1997)
• WGA Health Passport Project (1995)
• WGA Telemedicine Action Report (1995)

International

• Sharing State Environmental Information Electronically in the Mexico-United States Border Region (1997)/ -- En Espanol
• Multilateral Agreement on Investment Report (1997)
• Outcomes of the Ten State Retreat: A Regional Approach to the U.S.-Mexico Border (1996) / -- En espanol
• International Trade, the Environment, and the States: An Evolving State-Federal Relationship; Journal of Environment and Development, University of California San Diego (1995)

Land Stewardship

• A Collaborative Ten-Year Strategy for Restoring Health to Fire-Adapted Ecosystems -- Implementation Plan (2002)
• Purchase of Development Rights: Conserving Lands, Preserving Western Livelihoods (2002) 
• A Collaborative Ten-Year Strategy for Restoring Health to Fire-Adapted Ecosystems (2001)
• Partners For Tomorrow's West (1998)
• The Land of Wide Open Spaces:  Setting an Open Lands Conservation Agenda for the West - Summary and Recommendations of Governors' Open Lands Conference (1997)

Technology

• The Health Passport Project: Assessment and Recommendations -- executive summary (2002)
• Cadastral Data and Policy Forum Final Report (2001)
• Universal Service: Expanding it to Schools, Libraries and Rural Health Providers (1998)
• Telemedicine Action Update (1998)
• Health-Care On-Ramps: A Road Map to Western States' Information Highways (1998)
• Sharing State Environmental Information Electronically in the Mexico-United States Border Region (1997)/ -- En Espanol
• A Western States' Effort to Address Telemedicine Policy Barriers (1997)
• Public Mistrust of Government Collection, Use, and Protection of Personal Information (1997)
• WGA Health Passport Project (1995)
• WGA Telemedicine Action Report (1995)
• Information Technologies and State Governments: Challenges for Political Leadership (1995)

Transportation

• Transportation Futures: Rail Efficiency and Community Livability (1998) -- PDF format
• Challenge Paper: Rail Issues in the Western States (1998)
• Summary Comments and Recommendations - Rail Freight Roundtable (1998)
• Challenge Paper - Telecommunications Access to Highway Rights-of-Way (1998)
• Transportation Futures: The West's Economy on the Move (1996)
• Western States Committed to Radioactive Waste Transport Safety - Fact Sheet (1997)
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Transportation Safety Program Implementation Guide (1995)
• Memorandum of Agreement Between The U.S. Department of Energy and WGA For The Safe Transport of Transuranic Waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (1996)

Waste Management

• Western States Committed to Radioactive Waste Transport Safety - Fact Sheet (1997)
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Transportation Safety Program Implementation Guide (1995)
• Memorandum of Agreement Between The U.S. Department of Energy and WGA For The Safe Transport of Transuranic Waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (1996)
• DOIT Committee Final Report:  Collaborative Approaches that Save Time and Money in Cleaning Up Federal Waste Sites (1996)

Water

• The Western Drought Experience (1999)
• Improving the Interaction of Science, Measurement Techniques and TMDL Listing Management - Western Watershed/TMDL Management Issues - Workshop Summary (1999)
• The Federal Role in Watershed Partnerships (1998)
• Drought Response Action Plan (1997) - PDF format
• WGA/Federal Agency MOU Regarding Future Management of Floodplains in the West (1998)
• An Action Plan for Reducing Flood Risk in the West (1997)
• Watershed Partnerships: A Strategic Guide to Local Conservation Efforts in the West (1997)
• Wildland/Urban Interface: Fire Policy Action Report (1996)
• The Relationship Between DoD Installations and the Priority Landscapes of the Great Plains of North America (1996)
• Essential Elements of Amendments to the Endangered Species Act (1995)

More

• Principles for a More Workable and Effective Relationship Between the State and Federal Governments -- by Governor Michael O. Leavitt and Governor E. Benjamin Nelson (1995)