The project to be implemented by the north american development bank (nadbank) will carry out several activities to meet the goals, objectives, and guiding principles of the united states (U.S.) -…

The North American Development Bank (NADB) has been awarded a $183,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the International Financial Assistance Projects Sponsored by the Office of International and Tribal Affairs (CFDA #66.931) program. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024 with a completion date of September 30, 2026, will fund NADB's implementation of several activities to support the goals and objectives of the U.S.-Mexico Border 2025 Program.

Key activities to be delivered under this grant include: conducting a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) process to select and award sub-grants for priority projects in the border region that address air pollution reduction, water quality improvement, sustainable materials and waste management, and emergency preparedness; providing logistical support and coordination for binational workgroups and taskforces; and delivering capacity building and technical assistance to stakeholders in the U.S. and Mexican border states. The sub-award projects will be focused on areas such as enhancing air quality data exchange, updating emissions inventories, improving access to water quality data, reducing trash in priority watersheds, and promoting sustainable materials management.

The project to be implemented by the north american development bank (nadbank) will carry out several activities to meet the goals, objectives, and guiding principles of the united states (U.S.) - mexico border 2025 program. The work will be implemented within the border region (62.5 miles north and south of the international boundary) in the two U.S. States of new mexico and texas and four mexican states of chihuahua, coahuila, nuevo leoacute; n, and tamaulipas. The U.S. - mexico border 2025 program focuses on four goals: goal 1 - reduce air pollution; goal 2 - improve water quality; goal 3 - promote sustainable materials and waste management and goal 4 - improve joint preparedness for and response to hazardous environmental emergencies. The four goals aim to protect human health and the environment for residents living in the communities of the border region. Some activities include supporting specific projects through subawards that are identified as priorities by border 2025 program partners and align with the goals and objectives of the program. Other activities implemented will provide logistics support and coordination of binational workgroups or task forces. International capacity-building plays a key role in protecting the public health of communities and the environment by providing technical cooperation. The project activities will look to engage key stakeholders within each of the U.S. And mexican border states, including tribal, federal, state, and local governments, academia, community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations (ngos), and public. Activities:the activities to be performed include conducting a request for proposals (RFP) that will help with selecting the subawards. This work includes the preparation of the RFP package, implementation of the RFP, proposal reviews, selection and awarding of subgrants. Once border 2025 projects (subawards) are implemented, nadbank staff will work with subgrantees on finalizing workplans, ensure that projects that will collect data have the proper quality assurance projects plans approved by environmental protection agency (EPA) region 6 staff, and review quarterly and final reports submitted on each subaward. All reports are shared with EPA staff for review and technical comments. Nadbank will provide logistic support of border 2025 meetings and activities organized by regional coordinators and task force CO-leaders of the new mexico-texas-chihuahua (3-state) and texas-coahuila-nuevo leoacute; n-tamaulipas (4-state) regions. This includes working to help convene meetings (in-person, virtual or hybrid) with the binational groups, support these meetings with simultaneous interpretation through contractors, translation of documents (as needed), dissemination of meeting dates/notices to the public, development of documents/factsheets. Nadbank will provide logistic support for the border 2025 national coordinators meeting, which includes similar logistic support as the task force or regional workgroup meetings.subrecipient:subawards have not been selected at the time of the application. Subawards will be selected through a competitive process that nadbank will conduct. The subaward activities will include projects that will be carried out to meet the goal and objectives under the border 2025 program. There are 12 guiding principles but the two that the border program emphasizes are environmental justice and climate change. Anticipated subaward activities to be funded will be focused on one or more of the following subject areas: improving air quality data exchange between U.S. And mexican partners, supporting training and updating emission inventories, improving access to transboundary water quality data, prevention and reduction of trash into priority watersheds such as the RIO grande, exchange of knowledge between entities on electronic waste, sustainable management of food, food waste audits, tire management, SOU