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Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting Washington, D.C. July 18-19, 2006

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AGENDA
last updated 6/29/06

Omni Hotel
675 L Street, San Diego, California
July 18-19, 2006

Meeting Theme: Environmental Protection and Border Security
Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

DAY 1- July 18, 2006
   
8:00 a.m. – Registration
8:30 a.m. – Welcome Remarks
  Rafael DeLeon, Director, EPA Office of Cooperative Environmental Management
Paul Ganster, Chair, Good Neighbor Environmental Board
Opening Remarks
State Senator Denise Ducheney (invited)
Enrique Villegas, General Director of Ecology, Baja California (invited)
Self Introductions
9:00 a.m. – Speaker Presentations Begin
  9:00 a.m. – Border Patrol Representative (invited)
  9:45 a.m. – Diane Takvorian, Environmental Health Coalition
            Community Right to Know and Border Security
10:30 a.m. – Break
  10:45 a.m. – Ricardo Castellanos and Michael P. Dorsey, Border 2012 CA/Baja CA
             Emergency Response Taskforce Officials.
            Emergency Response & Border Security: The Environmental Connection
  11:30 a.m. – Chris Aldridge, Director, Border Technology and Research Center
            Advanced Technology:  Border Security with a Light Environmental Footprint
12:15 p.m. – Public Comment Session
12:30 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. – Speaker Presentations Continue

 

 2:00 p.m. – Flavio Olivieri, Consejo
          Update from Mexico’s Northern Border Environmental Advisors
  2:45 p.m. – Ing. José Luis Sánchez, Grupo Ambiental del Noroeste
          Building Security and Environmental Protection into the Supply Chain
3:30 p.m. – Break
  3:45 p.m. – Mike White, Conservation Biology Institute
           Potential Positive/ Negative Impacts of the Triple Fence on Flora and Fauna
  4:30 p.m. – Tina Terrell, Forest Supervisor, Cleveland National Forest
          Effects of Undocumented Human Crossings on National Forest Work at the Border
  5:15 p.m. – Additional Business
  5:30 p.m. – Day One of Meeting Ends
DAY 2 - July 19, 2006
 
Business Meeting
7:30 a.m. – Registration
8:00 a.m. – Welcome
  8:05 a.m. – Discussion/Approval of Minutes from Last Meeting
8:15 a.m. – Tenth Report Preparation Report-Outs
  • Security Context Workgroup
  • Security/Ecosystems Workgroup
  • Security/Environmental Health Workgroup
  • Next Steps
9:00 a.m. – Discussion: Role of federal agency representatives
9:45 a.m. – Break
10:00 a.m. – Board Member Report-outs
11:00 a.m. –

Discussion: Reporting to the President and Congress
11:45 a.m. – Other Business
12:00 a.m. – Business Meeting Ends

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