Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

Omni Hotel

675 L Street, San Diego, California

July 18-19, 2006

AGENDA

Meeting Theme: Environmental Protection and Border Security

Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

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

		Hon. Denise Moreno Ducheny, California State Senate, 40th District

		Secretary Enrique Villegas, Secretariat for Environmental Protection, 

			Baja California

		Self Introductions

 									

 9:00 a.m.	Speaker Presentations Begin

					

	9:00 a.m. – Michael Hance, Agent, Customs and Border Protection,
Department of 			Homeland Security

		Security Activities along the U.S.-Mexico Border

	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 and 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 

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

Omni Hotel

675 L Street, San Diego, California

July 18-19, 2006

	

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 Consultivo 

		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

	5:15 p.m. – Additional Business

	5:30 p.m. – Day One of Meeting Ends

(see next page for details of Business Meeting on Day Two)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

Omni Hotel

675 L Street, San Diego, California

July 18-19, 2006

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

Context Workgroup

Human Crossings Workgroup

Materials Crossings 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: Draft Comment Letter: Triple Fence

11:15 a.m.   Discussion: Reporting to the President and Congress

11:45 a.m.   Other Business

12:00 a.m.   Business Meeting/Day Two of Meeting Ends

 7/6/06

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