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NRBS - Home Table of Contents		Northern River Basins Study Final Report 5.0 First Nations/Métis Recommendations 5.1 Background and Board Position The NRBS Board requested that its First Nations Committee (made up of First Nations members of the Board) address the issues arising from the Study that have specific significance for the First Nations peoples of the northern river basins. The Northern River Basins Study Board received the First Nations / Métis Issues - Recommendations document from the Board's First Nations Committee. After a thorough review at the Board's Meeting No. 31, February 23, 1996, the Board agreed, by consensus:    a)    that the document is the Committee's final report to the Board; and    b)   to support all six of the Recommendations contained within the main body of the document. The recommendations, as supported by the Board are:
NRBS - Home Table of Contents Top of Page		1.   Governments establish a committee, that will involve communities and other stakeholders, to consult, advise and implement resulting programs and projects which are the outcome of the recommendations from the Northern River Basins Study, so that the interests and rights of the First Nations / Métis are safeguarded and protected.    2.   The governments develop a government to government relationship with First Nations / Métis governments concerning implementation of northern river basins strategies and recommendations.    3.   An ecosystem management approach be used which includes all aspects of the watershed management and encompasses the commitment of First Nations / Métis people to the ecosystem approach.    4.   Any future research programs developed or endorsed by the governments or research organizations be encouraged to focus on the integration of scientific and traditional knowledge within a First Nations / Métis research protocol.    5.   The northern river research strategies endeavour to enable First Nations / Métis communities and governments to initiate and carry out scientific research which answers First Nations / Métis environmental questions about the northern river basins.    6.   Governments commit to a cooperative and participatory thrust of future research in the northern river basins focusing on human health and its link to environmental contaminants or ecological change, and the cause and effect relationship of environmental contaminants or ecological change to the health of the communities and peoples involved; particular effort should be placed on the quality of water within the region encompassed by the Northern  River Basins Study boundaries. The Board appreciates the commitment and efforts of the Board's First Nations Committee members in bringing forward the attached document.

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