Welcome to the New Mexico Environmental Finance Center

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Located in Socorro, NM, the New Mexico Environmental Finance Center (NM EFC) was created in 1992 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a pilot initiative of the Environmental Finance Program. The first such center, the NM EFC was established to assist the states of EPA Region 6 (New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana). Its original mission was to assist state and local governments with the "how to pay" issues of environmental compliance and regulation. In 2008, the NM EFC established the Rocky Mountain EFC to serve EPA Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah).

Because of the success of the NM EFC, EPA now funds environmental finance centers in all 10 EPA regions. The centers have banded together to form the Environmental Finance Center Network, creating a collaborative network dedicated to helping state, local and tribal governments meet environmental infrastructure needs and achieve regulatory compliance. (Click on the EFCN link at the top of this page to get information about all the centers.)

Since its creation, the NM EFC has moved well beyond its original focus to include work in water system capacity development, source water protection, tribal water system compliance, tribal operator certification, water regionalization, drought preparedness planning, arsenic rule compliance, leak detection, and asset management. The NM EFC employs staff from multiple disciplines, including engineering, business, planning, science and public administration. We offer a wide range of professional services to partners in government at all levels, as well as to the private and nonprofit sectors.

The NM EFC has programs in:

  • Utility Asset Management( including training and direct Assistance)

  • Tribal Drinking Water Technical Assistance

  • Tribal Operator Certification and Training

  • Water System Optimization (including comprehensive performance evaluations for groundwater systems)

  • Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance and Related Activities (including drinking water sampling and data administration)

  • Water System Capacity Assessment and Development

  • Water Loss Reduction Strategies

  • Multiple Barrier Evaluations (Sanitary Surveys)

  • Neutral Evaluation for treatment technologies, utilities and related topics
    		•  Environmental Finance Advisory Board
    EPA Environmental Finance Program
    EPA Region 6 Drinking Water Program

    Rocky Mountain Environmental Finance Center