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GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Border 2025 has four Goals with specific Objectives and sub-objectives to address the environmental and public health
challenges in the border region. Goals are integrated in action plans that establish priorities and needs of a geographic
area, region, or community, and adapt to emerging issues and/or unanticipated resource constraints.

The full list of objectives and sub-objectives is available in the Border 2025 Framework document:

https://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/border-2025-framework or https://www.aob.mx/semarnat/documentos/frontera-2025

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Goal #1: Reduce Air Pollution

Establish reliable and sustainably operated air
monitoring networks and provide real-time access to
air quality data

Increase the quality and exchange of data from
emissions inventories across the border
Reduce vehicle emissions in the border region
Deploy strategies and technologies to reduce
pollutant emissions and improve public health
outcomes

Update and/or complete climate action plans in each
of the six northern Mexican Border States and build
capacity to sustain implementation

Goal #3: Promote Sustainable Materials
Management and Waste Management
and Clean Sites

Share information and experiences on sustainable
materials management and resource efficiency
practices

Identify priority waste streams and develop
sustainable materials management and resource
efficiency practices

Improve knowledge at every level of government to
improve solid waste disposal site operations
Prevent and Reduce Pollution in the Marine
Environment

Implement the Binational Consultative Mechanism
yearly

Goal #2: Improve Access to Clean and
Safe Water

Address Border Water Management in the

Tijuana River Watershed

Improve Drinking Water and Wastewater

Treatment Infrastructure

Improve Operation & Maintenance of Drinking

Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

Promote beneficial reuse of treated wastewater

and conservation of water and energy

Implement projects to prevent and reduce the

levels of trash and sediment from entering high

priority binational watersheds

Improve access to transboundary water quality

data

®Goal #4: Improve Joint Preparedness
for and Response to Hazardous
Environmental Emergencies

•	Update the Joint Mexico-United States
Contingency Plan (JCP) and evaluate the
emergency notification system along the border

•	Review, update and evaluate the Sister City Joint
Contingency Plans

•	Strengthen emergency response personnel
training as well as develop and disseminate
technical support material

•	Design and implement guidelines and protocols to
cross the U.S.-Mexico border in emergency
response situations

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Organizational Structure and Coordinating Bodies (see
figure)

National Coordinators, one from each country (EPA,
SEMARNAT), manage overall program implementation,
and ensure cooperation, coordination, and
communication among all coordinating bodies.

Policy Workgroups focus on borderwide and multi-
regional issues primarily federal in nature (requiring
direct, high-level, and sustained leadership by federal
program partners in the U.S. and Mexico called federal
co-chairs) and that require broad policy considerations.

Regional Coordinators (RC) are goal and geographically
focused and emphasize regional public health and
environmental issues. They coordinate regional
activities and support local Task Forces efforts and
coordinate with U.S. federally recognized Tribes and
Mexican indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities.

Task Forces are coordinated meeting bodies that the RC may establish, which are geographically focused based on Border
2025 goals, priority issues, and othertopics. Task Forces serve as a space for border stakeholders to collaborate on studies
and projects, share information, raise individual concerns to government officials, and learn about ongoing efforts in the
border region.

Communication-

Border 2025 depends on a bottom-up communication approach. To ensure effective and timely communication and
engagement with the public, program partners, and stakeholders, a program communication strategy was developed.
For the latest news on Border 2025, sign-up for the U.S.-Mexico Border Program listserv.

Interagency Cooperation and Leveraging of Resources -

Success of Border 2025 depends on thesustainability, availability, and efficient utilization of funding from federal, state,
and local governments as well as from public/private partnerships and collaborations. Border 2025 funds projects but
encourages all stakeholders to participate in leveraging resources when developing projects, policies, and programs to
meet its goals and objectives. For more information on projects, review the action plans or attend task force meetings.

For questions: https: //www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/forms/contact-us-mexico-border-program or
ucai(5)semarnat.gob.mx

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BORDER 2025 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

NATIONAL COORDINATORS (EPA-SEMARNAT)

Regional Coordinators

Represent:

•	Arizona/Sonora

•	California/Baja California

•	New Mexico-Texas-Chihuahua

•	Texas-Coahuila-Nuevo Leon-
Tamaulipas

*US Federally recognized Tribes and
indigenous communities in Mexico

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Policy Workgroups

•	Air

•	Water

•	Land

•	Emergencies

Task Forces:

•	Created and managed by Regional Coordinators

•	Identify priority issues and help facilitate pilot
projects by convening local, state, and tribal
governments, academia, NGOs, and the public.

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