Sacramento

Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown Jr. (D-San Francisco) and Assemblyman Steve Peace (D-Chula Vista) said Thursday they will try again to win passage of two bills aimed at cleaning up pollution along the Mexican border.

Brown’s bill would authorize the use of $150 million in state bonds for projects to control pollution at the border. Peace’s measure would create the International Border Pollution Control Authority to build and run sewage and waste treatment plants on the California side of the border and develop other pollution control programs in cooperation with the Mexican government.

Brown’s pollution control bond measure proposal died in the Legislature at the end of last year’s session after Gov. George Deukmejian indicated he would not support it. Peace’s bill was approved by the Legislature but vetoed by Deukmejian, who said it would duplicate the work of existing state and federal agencies.

Peace, in a joint statement released by Brown’s office, said he supports a recent agreement between the Mexican and U.S. governments for a $1.2-million project to clean up the New River, which flows from Mexico into the United States and has been called one of the world’s dirtiest rivers.

But Peace said that plan would “merely serve as a Band-Aid for Mexicali’s current sewage treatment woes” and would not address what he called the area’s “more pressing” hazardous waste needs.