The Imperial County communities of Brawley, Westmorland and Calipatria get an AB617 designation.

The North End Phase 1 Community designation for the corridor clears the way for the development of both a Community Emissions Reduction Program and a Community Air Monitoring Plan. 

The Imperial County Air Pollution Control District, and Comite Civivo el Valle partnered to facilitate the AB617 Community Steering Committee that convened to gather input and recommendations on pollution mitigation projects for the designated area. A similar, community-led framework to what is in place for the Calexico-Heber-El Centro corridor that was established in 2018. In Imperial County the state-funded program has been used for air quality projects  such as electric school buses in Calexico, a mobile air monitoring project across the New River, paving alleys and dirt roads, air filtration in corridor schools, urban greening projects and updating APCD rues and policies.