Relations with the Council of State Governments are conducted through the Minnesota Commission on Interstate Cooperation. consisting of five members from each house of the state legislature and five administrative officers or other state employees; in addition, the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house are nonvoting members. Minnesota also participates in the Great Lakes Charter, which it formed with seven other states in 1985 to preserve the lakes' water supply, and in other regional compacts. Minnesota is a party to the Boundary Compact Between Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; the Great Lakes Commission; the Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission; and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact. In 2001, Minnesota received over $5.2 billion in federal grants.