Mexican border funding for public works to be restored

A long-awaited decision by the Mexican Treasury Secretariat has allowed the release of $3 million in badly needed technical-assistance funding for water and sewer projects in northern Mexican border communities. The bi-national, Ciudad Juárez-based Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (BECC) had put a hold on the funds—earmarked for use this year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—after the Mexican Treasury changed the commission’s tax status in January 1999. The charter of the BECC, established under the environmental side-accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), exempts the agency from certain levies. The commission had asked Mexican fiscal authorities to restore the status it had enjoyed in its first three years of operation, from 1996 through 1998. After... [Log in to read more]

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