Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

Sul Ross University

Alpine, Texas

October 24-26, 2006

AGENDA

Meeting Theme: Big Bend / El Gran Recodo

October 24, 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

		Vic Morgan, President, Sul Ross University

		Mickey Clouse, Mayor of Alpine

		Judge Val Clark Beard, Brewster County 

		

		Self Introductions

 									

 9:15 a.m.	Speaker Presentations Begin

					

	9:15 a.m. – Keynote:  Dr. Ernesto Enkerlin, President, National
Commission on 		Protected Areas, Mexico

	

	10:00 a.m. – Keynote: Russ Whitlock , Texas National Parks State
Coordinator, National 	Park Service

			

10:45 a.m.	Break

11:00: a.m. –   Paul Silber, private landowner - Wild & Scenic Rivers
program 

	11:45 a.m. - Tom Beard, Far West Texas Water Planning Region –
Regional Water Planning and Water Availability 

12:30 p.m.	Lunch 

 2:00 p.m.	Public Comment Session, including Tenth Report Input

 2:45 p.m.	Speaker Presentations Continue

	

	2:45 p.m.  –   David Schanbacher, TCEQ Chief Engineer - Regional Haze
in Texas		

3:30 p.m.	Break

	3:45 p.m. –   Jack Schmidt, Professor, Utah State University  - The
Changing Physical 				Template of our Shared Rivers

	4:30 p.m. –  Mark Briggs, World Wildlife Fund – Controlling
Invasive Plants Along the Rio Grande

5:15 p.m. – Additional Business

5:30 p.m. – Day One of Meeting Ends

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting

Sul Ross University

Alpine, Texas

October 24-26, 2006

(October 25, 2006  - Board Field Trip to Big Bend National Park; will
include briefings from National Park Service officials and a
presentation from Billy Pat Mckinney on the CEMEX El

Carmen Conservation Project, located on adjoining land in Mexico)

October 26, 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.    Invitation for Public Input on Tenth Report Draft
Recommendations

 8:30 a.m.    Selection of Meeting Locations, Dates for 2007

 9:30 a.m.    Break

10:00 a.m.   Board Member Report-outs 

 

10:45 a.m.   Selection of Theme for Eleventh Report

11:30 a.m.   Standard Operating Procedures for Board and Council on
Environmental 			Quality

12:00 Noon  Meeting Ends

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