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Economic Development Background Material, Texas Department of Commerce, Nuevo Laredo, and State Development Division, and Border Governors' Conference Files

• 1986-1991 (Creation)

44 folders

Economic Briefs
5/1: Economic Briefs, April 1988

5/2: Economic Briefs, March 1988

5/3: Economic Briefs, February 1988

5/4: Economic Briefs, January 1988

5/5: Economic Briefs, November 1987

5/6: Economic Briefs, October 1987

5/7: Economic Briefs, September 1987

5/8: Strategic Economic Policy Commission, 1988
Announcement, December 15, 1988, Letters, memos, report on a meeting with Governor Clements, strategic objectives, clippings, statement before the commission by the American Electronics Association, remarks by Governor Clements at the unveiling of the commission's report, and report titled A Blueprint for Tomorrow's Texas (an overview of the strategic plan for diversifying and developing the Texas economy, and a copy of the report of the commission

Texas Department of Commerce, Nuevo Laredo, and State Development Division
5/9: Department of Commerce, Referrals, 1990
Correspondence and memos

5/10: Department of Commerce, Plant Closing, 1988-1990
Notification, Letters about layoffs, reductions in personnel, and closing of businesses in Texas

5/11: Department of Commerce, Product Commercialization Fund, 1989-1990
Letters, memos, clippings, minutes of a meeting of the Product Development Fund Advisory Committee, press releases, copies of HB 1860, HB 362, and HJR 51 relating to establishing and funding the Fund, list of appointees to the Product Commercialization Advisory Board, and draft program rules for the Product Commercialization Fund

5/12: Department of Commerce, Research Centers, 1990
State/Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (S/IUCRC), Memo regarding the criteria for State/IUCRC proposal evaluation November 1990, and list of IURC Centers as of October 1, 1990

5/13: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, Project Background, 1989-1990
Letters, memos, clippings, information on counties eligible under Senate Bill 2, listing of counties with average per capita income of 10 percent or more below the state average, proposed Texas Water Development Board rider, report on average per capita income and unemployment rates for all Texas Counties, and copy of HB 1862 relating to financial assistance for wastewater projects to improve water discharged into the Rio Grande

5/14: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, Project Background, 1989
Copies of SB 2 relating to the authorization, administration, and funding of the financial assistance program to provide water supply and sewer service in economically distressed areas and to provide adequate local regulation of those water supply and sewer services as drafted by Senator Santiesteban, et al, copy of the Senate Committee Substitute for the bill, copy of a Senate floor amendment to the bill, analysis of the bill by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, analysis of the bill by a staff member in the Texas Department of Commercial Affairs, and an Attorney General's opinion on the authority of Harris County to provide certain potable water facilities

5/15: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, Sewage System Project
Letters, memos, notes, memorandum of understanding between the Texas Water Development Board and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission regarding improving the quality of the water in the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, list of people attending a meeting in Nuevo Laredo, report on the Texas Water Development Board's financial programs to resolve Nuevo Laredo waste discharge problems, list of cities with the population of each which get water from the Rio Grande, and copies from statutes on water assistance program

5/16: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant
International Boundary and Water Commission documents including a draft environmental assessment on the international agreement for improvement of the quality of the waters of the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas-Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; finding of no significant impact on the international agreement; Minute No. 279 on the joint measures to improve the quality of the waters of the Rio Grande; and report of the principal engineers concerning measures that should be undertaken to improve the waters of the Rio Grande

5/17: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant
Unnumbered drafts of Texas legislation relating to financial assistance for wastewater projects to improve water discharged into the Rio Grande and to Texas participating with federal agencies in that improvement

5/18: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, 1987-1988
U. S. House Resolution 2046 100th Congress 2nd session to authorize the Secretary of State to conclude agreements with appropriate representative of Mexico to correct pollution in the Rio Grande and U. S. Senate bill 1796 100th Congress, 1st session to provide for the establishment of the Special Committee on Rio Grande water quality

5/19: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant
Note and computer printout of all public water systems from Webb County to Cameron County, Texas that use treated water from the Rio Grande

5/20: State Development Division, Economic Accomplishments, 1987-1989
State Development Division, Periodic brief reports and fact sheets (mostly undated), one multi-page report that may be an end of term report, a press release, list of bills related to economic development introduced in the 70th Legislature, a copy of Texas Fiscal Facts published by the Texas Research League, and reports titled Texas Jobs and Opportunity Blueprint, Texas Five-Point Plan for Agricultural Development, and A Strategic Economic Plan for Texas by the Strategic Economic Policy Commission for the 71st Legislature

5/21: State Development Division, Hispanic Affairs, 1986-1989
General, Letters, memos, notes, resolutions, and clippings primarily of Cynthia A. Ramirez Garza as Director of Hispanic Affairs in the Office of State Development, 1987-1989. Also includes the program for an international Trade Breakfast at the Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce convention in Houston, 1987, and Final Report & Recommendations of the Border Economic Development Task Force, 1986

5/22: State Development Division, Memos Received, 1990
Mostly by Margaret Spearman as Assistant Director for Agribusiness & Rural Development in the Office of State Development

5/23: State Development Division, Memos Sent, 1990
Mostly by Margaret Spearman

Border Governors' Conference Files
5/24: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, May-August 1987
Letters, memos, notes, press release, and clippings relating to followup and planning for conferences that were held before this one

5/25: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, September-October 1987
Letters, memos, notes, list of invitees by Governor Clements, agendas for a conference in Las Cruces October 5-6, 1987

5/26: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, November 1987
Letters (primarily about rescheduling the conference to December), memos, notes, and agenda for a roundtable on border issues

5/27: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, November 1987
Report titled Briefing Materials on U.S./Mexico Border Economic Development prepared for Governor Clements by Donald Hagans and Donald Michie

5/28: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, December 1987
Letters, memos, press release, clippings, tentative and final agendas, agendas for and notes on private meetings of Governor Clements with the governors of Mexican States, paper titled "Industrialization of the U. S. and Mexican Border Areas" presented at the conference by Arturo D. (Tito) Torres (also includes three exhibits titled "The Economic Impact of Maquiladoras on Border Development: A Rio Grande Valley Case Study-Some Preliminary Findings," "Proposals for Special Economic Zones on the U.S.-Mexico Border" by Harvey Rosenblum and William C. Gruben, and "Proposal for a Bilateral Framework Agreement on Trade and Investment Between Mexico and the United States" by Trade Subcommittee of the Mexico-U.S. Business Committee) to accompany the paper, and brief reports on issues for Governor Clements to discuss at the conference

5/29: Austin, Texas, March 1988
Letter and application of the Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc. for a certificate of convenience and necessity for proposed transmission lines and associated substations to be discussed at the meeting in Austin

5/30: Austin, Texas, February-April 1988
Cooperative agreements between Texas and the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas regarding industrial, commercial, and tourism relations and a memorandum of understanding with Chihuahua regarding higher education. Includes both English and Spanish versions.

5/31: Sautillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 1988 & 1989
February 15-17, 1989, Letters, memos, notes on a planning meeting, report on meetings in Mexico City between November 29 and December 4, 1988, copy of a report of the 1981 conference in El Paso attended by President Ronald Reagan, report on U. S.-Mexico Industrial Development, A Texas Project from the U.S.-Mexico Border Conference in Monterey, California, July 27-9, 1988, report on the conference in Monterey, and clippings, May 1988-January 1989

5/32: Sautillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 1989
February 15-17, 1989, Letters, memos, notes, clippings, press release, lists of Governor Clements' invitees, program, tentative agenda, agendas for Governor and Mrs. Clements, joint resolution of the U. S.-Mexico Border Governors on several issues, cooperative agreement between Texas and Chihuahua, text of an address by Donald F. Hagans, brief reports on a variety of issues, and follow-up reports on issues raised or discussed at the conference, January-April 1989

5/33: Sautillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 1989
February 15-17, 1989, Clippings and brief information reports on a variety of issues for Governor Clements' meeting with President Carlos Salinas de Gorhart of Mexico, February 15, 1989

5/34: Working Group Meetings, 1989-1990
Memos and agendas concerning planning and other meetings of governors' support staff concerning several meetings of border governors

5/35: Planning Meeting, 1990 & 1991
Memos, list of attendees, planning chart, timeline, lists of tasks to be accomplished with individuals or agencies responsible for them and dates they need to be accomplished, list of individuals to contact, report of items to be considered in developing a budget for meetings

5/36: Resolution, 1990
Joint resolution adopted by the United States-Mexico Border Governors on trade and investments, industrial development, tourism, agriculture, and health and environment, adopted March 30, 1990. Includes English and Spanish versions as well as several drafts between November 1989 and January 1990

5/37: Resolution, Background Materials, 1989-1990
Letters, memos, notes, reports on various issues included in the above resolution as well as copies of agreements between the government of the United States of America and the government of the United Mexican States relating to protecting the environment and the development and facilitation of tourism

5/38: 8th Border Governors' Conference, 1990
Resumes and statements of the governors of each state for the program for the Conference in Austin, Texas

5/39: Staff Liability Insurance, 1990
Memo, clipping, invoice, and policy for the conference in Austin, Texas

5/40: Austin, Texas - Texas Association of Business, 1990
Letters, memos, notes, lists of tasks with names of individuals responsible for accomplishing them and dates by which they should be accomplished, drafts of the agenda, list of the members of a fundraising committee, memo from the General Counsel's office on the legality of the fundraising plan, draft contract with the hotel, record of responsibilities of the hotel, and draft invitations to the conference held March 29-30. The Texas Association of Business undertook the task of raising approximately $200,000 to fund the conference.

5/41: Austin, Texas - Texas Association of Business, July 1989-March 1990
Financing, Letters, memos, notes, progress reports on contributions received and anticipated, list of members of the fundraising committee, procedures for handling the money raised, report of funds needed, lists of potential contributors, record of levels of gifts anticipated, and memo from the General Counsel's office on the legality of the fundraising plan

5/42: Austin, Texas - Proposals to Texas Association of Business, 1990
Costs, Proposals are for costs of floral decorations at meal functions and for menus for meal functions. Also includes a floor plan for what appears to be a press room and a registration plan of the hotel.

5/43: Austin, Texas - Volunteer Plan, 1990
Developed by the Texas Association of Business for the conference

5/44: Austin, Texas, June 1989-February 1990
Correspondence, memos, notes, clippings, timelines, agreement with the conference hotel, and brief reports on issues related to planning for the conference