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Executive Order 12916: Implementation of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank

President: Bill Clinton

Assigned United States representation and delegated finance functions for BECC and NADB; later charter amendments merged the institutions.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 12916 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 12916 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 12916 do?

EO 12916 implemented the United States–Mexico agreement creating BECC and NADB. It named EPA and the United States IBWC Commissioner to the BECC board; Treasury, State and EPA to the NADB board; delegated NAFTA functions; created a Community Adjustment and Investment Program Finance Committee; and delegated creation of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board to EPA. In 2017 the governments merged BECC into NADB, which continues border environmental infrastructure work.

Administration position: The order connected environmental project review with binational finance. It did not guarantee approval or funding.
SignedMay 13, 1994
InstitutionsBECC and NADB
Finance committee chairTreasury

Before and after

Before the order

The institutions lacked detailed United States executive arrangements.

After the order

Named officials represented the United States and a Treasury-led committee coordinated community finance.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
EPA and IBWCRepresent the United States in the original BECC structureSuperseded in practice by merger
Treasury, State and EPARepresent the United States on NADB’s boardSubject to amended charter

What happened next

EO 12916 established implementation machinery.

The amended charter fully merged BECC into NADB.