“This hazmat gear is essential for our sister cities across the border,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator. “These tools will better enable us to jointly respond to a future environmental emergency along the Arizona/Sonora border.”
“The U.S. Consulate General in Nogales is very pleased to coordinate with NORTHCOM and facilitate this transfer of needed hazmat equipment,” said Deputy Principal Officer Megan Phanuef. “This is just one of many ways that our federal, state, and local governments work together to improve the quality of life for communities on both sides of the border.”
...Enhancing the ability of cities on both sides of the border to respond to hazardous material incidents is a high priority under the binational border environment program (referred to as Border 2012) and was implemented under a 2008 EPA/NORTHCOM Memorandum of Agreement. The new binational border environment program, Border 2020, builds on these efforts by emphasizing regional and locally-driven approaches for decision making, priority setting, and project implementation to address the environmental and public health problems in the border region.
For more information on this program please visit: http://www.epa.gov/border2020/index.html
