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Air Policy Forum
Announcing the Sixth Meeting of the Border 2012 Air Policy Forum
July 29 and 30
San Diego, California
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Mexico's Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) will host the sixth Air Policy Forum (APF) meeting, to be held July 29 and 30 at the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley in San Diego, California. The meeting will begin at 8:00 AM on the 29th and adjourn at 1:30 PM on the 30th.
A major goal of the meeting will be to complete the integrated Border Air Quality Strategy begun during the last APF meeting in Juarez. Topics to be discussed within the context of the Strategy include: older vehicles imported into Mexico; vehicle emissions inspection programs in Mexico; emissions inventories; monitoring networks; vehicle emissions at border crossings; cross-border airshed management (including air quality regulations); Mexico's Transporte Limpio program; and emissions from the power sector, among others.
A second major goal of the APF meeting will be to generate ideas and recommendations for implementing the new Border 2012 air objective to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and to achieve GHG reductions through voluntary programs.
Registration for the meeting, along with information about the hotel, is available on-line.
Contacts:
U.S. Co-Chair: Sue Stendebach, EPA (stendebach.sue@epa.gov)
Mexico Co-Chair: Ana Maria Contreras, SEMARNAT (ana.contreras@semarnat.gob.mx)