SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Business & Commerce, Subcommittee on Border Affairs TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Wednesday, August 14, 2002 PLACE: San Antonio, Texas CHAIR: Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. ___________________________________________________________________________ The Senate Subcommittee on Border Affairs will hold a public hearing in San Antonio on August 14, 2002. The hearing will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will be held at the University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Room 409L, which is located at 7703 Floyd Curl Drive. To consider the following: Identify unique challenges facing the Texas-Mexico border region and determine strategic economic development initiatives to assist the region in overcoming the identified challenges. Recommend initiatives to improve trade and tourism that create a sound foundation for economic development and determine the amount of funding necessary to implement the initiatives. Determine whether such investments will leverage other significant funds or if funding is unlikely from other sources. Make recommendations to facilitate commerce and lessen congestion at ports-of-entry at the Texas-Mexico border. NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need auxiliary aids or services, such as interpreters for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired, are requested to contact Laura Garcia at (512) 463-0385 at least two (2) weeks prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made. ___________________________________________________________________________