Curious about the blood lead content in North Idaho's children?

How about the status of the $1.34 billion cleanup plan proposed for the upper basin?

Updates on all this - as well as other hot-topic environmental projects - will be discussed all day Wednesday at the Coeur d'Alene Basin Commission's quarterly meeting.

"It's a regular quarterly meeting, but there's always something going on," said Terry Harwood, executive director of BEIPC.

Wednesday's agenda includes an update from the Environmental Protection Agency on the progress of the cleanup plan being considered for the upper basin.

"They've got over 6,000 individual comments on the plan," Harwood said, adding that the agency is reviewing every one. "They said about 600 were kind of nonsensical, but the rest they're in the process of going through."

The state and Coeur d'Alene Tribe will also discuss the implementation of the Coeur d'Alene Lake Management Plan so far, Harwood said.

"Folks from Coeur d'Alene might want to know how the state and tribe are doing managing the lake," he said.

The basin members will also be presented with results of blood lead testing among basin children in 2010, he said.

Also scheduled is a 5-year review by the EPA of its efforts cleaning mining waste in the basin, Harwood said. And the Department of Environmental Quality will discuss the new repositories approved in Osburn and near Canyon Creek.

The basin commission will also present its annual accomplishments report, measuring how much of its work plan from the beginning of the year was achieved.

"We say, 'This is what we accomplished,' and if we did more or less, we explain why," he said. "It's an accountability process. It's a way the government can be accountable to the community."

The meeting is scheduled for from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Gold Room in the Wallace Inn at 100 Front St. in Wallace.