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Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

 


[Federal Register: October 25, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 207)]
[Notices]
[Page 63862-63863]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The next meeting of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board, a
federal advisory committee focused on environmental sustainability
within the U.S.-Mexico border region, will take place in Brownsville,
Texas, on November 2nd and 3rd, 2000. It will last from 8:30 a.m.--4:30
p.m. on Thursday, November 2nd, and from 8 a.m. until noon on Friday,
November 3rd. The entire meeting is open to the public.

Location: The meeting will take place at the Fort Brown Hotel & Resort
(Holiday Inn), located at 1900 East Elizabeth Street in Brownsville,
Texas. The hotel is one block from the international bridge to Mexico.

Agenda: During the morning of the first day, the draft agenda calls for
report-outs from Board Members on border-region activities, several
informational briefings from local officials and organizations, and a
public comment session late morning. After lunch, the meeting will
continue with another guest presentation, followed by a planning
session for the Board's upcoming Fifth Report to the President and
Congress of the United States. The hotel site portion of the meeting
currently is scheduled to end at 4:30 p.m., after which the Board will
travel to the Cameron Park Community Center, 2100 Gregory, Brownsville
for a briefing and informal discussion with Center officials scheduled
to begin at approximately 5:30 p.m.
    The second day of the meeting primarily will focus on ongoing Board
business such as dissemination of the Board's Fourth Report, strategy
sessions on increasing visibility, development of potential themes for
upcoming reports, and additional discussion on the framework for its
next report.

Public Attendance: The public is welcome to attend all portions of the
meeting. Members of the public who plan to file written statements and/
or

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make brief oral statements at the public comment session on the morning
of November 2nd are encouraged to contact the Designated Federal
Officer for the Board prior to the meeting.

Background: The Good Neighbor Environmental Board was created by the
Enterprise for the Americans Initiative Act of 1992. An Executive Order
delegates implementing authority to the Administrator of EPA. The Board
is responsible for providing advice to the President and the Congress
on environmental and infrastructure issues and needs within the States
contiguous to Mexico in order to improve the quality of life of persons
residing on the United States side of the border. The statute calls for
the Board to have representatives from U.S. Government agencies; the
governments of the States of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas;
and private organizations with expertise on environmental and
infrastructure problems along the southwest border. The Board meets
three times annually, primarily in various border locations. The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency gives notice of this meeting of the
Good Neighbor Environmental Board pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elaine M. Koerner, Designated Federal
Officer for the Good Neighbor Environmental Board: Office of
Cooperative Environmental Management, Office of the Administrator,
USEPA, MC1601A, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20004, (202)
564-1484, koerner.elaine@epa.gov.

    Dated: October 13, 2000.
Elaine M. Koerner,
DFO, Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
[FR Doc. 00-27402 Filed 10-24-00; 8:45 am]
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