The President has essentially committed to putting a representative of the independent environmental community on his negotiating team. The representative will not comment on the trade agreement after It has been negotiated. rather. he/she will actually be there as it is being written. This Is the first time that the administration has ever done anything of this kind. Environmental organizations will also be asked to join the joint border protection program. which will be in place by the end of this year. Comprehensive environmental negotiations between the United States and Mexico will take place on a parallel track. Bush and Secretary Reilly have also committed to establishing a new program to assist small Mexican businesses keep clean.
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