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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Plan EJ 2014
Fostering
Administration-Wide
Action
Plan EJ 2014 is EPA's roadmap for
integrating environmental justice into
its programs and policies.
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FOSTERING ADMINISTRATION-WIDE ACTION ON
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Implementation Plan
September 2011
Led by
Office of Water and Region 6
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
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PLAN EJ 2014 AT A GLANCE
Plan EJ 2014 is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s
roadmap to integrating environmental justice into its programs and policies.
The year marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order
12898 on environmental justice. Plan EJ 2014 seeks to:
Protect the environment and health in overburdened communities.
- Empower communities to take action to improve their health and
environment.
Establish partnerships with local, state, tribal, and federal
governments and organizations to achieve healthy and sustainable
communities.
As the EPA's overarching environmental justice strategy, Plan EJ 2014 has
three major sections: Cross-Agency Focus Areas, Tools Development
Areas, and Program Initiatives.
The Cross-Agency Focus Areas are:
Incorporating Environmental Justice into Rulemaking.
Considering Environmental Justice in Permitting.
Advancing Environmental Justice through Compliance and
Enforcement.
Supporting Community-Based Action Programs.
Fostering Administration-Wide Action on Environmental Justice.
The Tools Development Areas are:
Science.
Law.
Information.
Resources.
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1.0 INTRODUaiON 2
1.1 Goals 1
1.2 Organizational Structure 1
2.0 IMPLEMENTATION 3
2.1 Strategies 3
2.2 Activities 3
2.3 Community Engagement and Stakeholder Plan 9
3.0 DELIVERABLES 10
4.0 REPORTING 15
APPENDIX: Acronyms 16
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Goals At-A-G lance
To facilitate the active
involvement of all federal
agencies in implementing
EO 12898 by minimizing
and mitigating
disproportionate, negative
impacts while fostering
environmental, public
health, and economic
benefits for overburdened
communities.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Executive Order 12898, "Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations" (EO 12898), signed in 1994,
calls on all federal agencies to focus attention on, and work with other
stakeholders to, eliminate or remediate the unduly high and adverse human
health or environmental effects that exist in these communities. In other words,
it called for federal agencies to achieve environmental justice. EO 12898 directs
each federal agency to "make achieving environmental justice part of its mission
by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and
adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and
activities on minority populations and low-income populations," including tribal
populations.1
1.1 Goals
Everyone in America deserves to live, work, and play in a healthy and sustainable
community. The goal of this implementation plan is to facilitate the active
involvement of all federal agencies in ensuring a healthy, sustainable, and green
community, as well as equitable development, for all people. To better achieve
this goal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is leading the
Administration's effort to fully implement EO 12898. As each federal agency
reinvigorates its effort to make environmental justice part of its mission, EPA will
focus on helping each federal agency participate in a coordinated approach that
acknowledges the disproportionately high and adverse human health and
environmental impacts on overburdened communities2, while providing access to
the environmental, public health, and economic benefits of EPA's programs.
A coordinated and holistic approach is essential to ensure that we address the full
scope of adverse human health and environmental effects in overburdened
communities, legacy pollution problems rooted in historical discrimination, and
cumulative impacts; and to ensure that all communities participate in, and benefit
from, the transition to a clean energy economy.
1.2 Organizational Structure
The Office of Water (OW) and Region 6 will serve as co-leads for the Fostering
Administration-Wide Action on Environmental Justice cross-Agency focus area.
OW will be supported by the Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ), the Office of
Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), the Office of Federal Activities
1 Clinton, William J., Executive Order 12898, "Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority
Populations and Low-Income Populations," February 11, 1994, Federal Register 59, No. 32: 7629.
2 In Plan EJ 2014, EPA uses the term "overburdened" to describe the minority, low-income, tribal, and indigenous
populations or communities in the United States that potentially experience disproportionate environmental
harms and risks as a result of greater vulnerability to environmental hazards. This increased vulnerability may be
attributable to an accumulation of both negative and lack of positive environmental, health, economic, or social
conditions within these populations or communities.
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(OFA), the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), and the Office of Congressional and
Intergovernmental Relations (OCIR).
EPA recognizes that Fostering Administration-Wide Action requires coordination
with the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), other federal
agencies, and EPA's ongoing interagency activities. In addition, the OFA will
address the issues related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and
the OCR will address issues related to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Interagency coordination will also involve the Federal Interagency Working Group
on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG), which was established under EO 12898 and
was reconvened in September 2010.
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2.0 IMPLEMENTATION
2.1 Strategies
EPA, in conjunction with the White
House CEQ and the EJ IWG, has
identified four major strategies for
Fostering Administration-Wide Action
on Environmental Justice:
* Assist other federal agencies to
integrate environmental justice in
their programs, policies, and
activities.
• Work with other federal agencies
to strengthen use of interagency
legal tools, such as NEPA and Title
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Foster healthy and sustainable
communities, with an emphasis
on equitable development and
place-based initiatives.
• Strengthen community access to
federal agencies.
2.2 Activities
The following activities are intended
to carry out the strategies identified
for this implementation plan.
Strategy 1: Assist other federal agencies to integrate environmental justice in
their missions, programs, policies, and activities.
EPA will lead the Administration's effort to better integrate environmental justice
into federal agency programs, policies, and activities by chairing the EJ IWG. The
Administration is dedicated to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to live
in a healthy and sustainable community, particularly those living in overburdened
communities. As part of this Administration-wide effort, EPA has taken the lead
in reinvigoratingthe EJ IWG. Under EO 12898, the EJ IWG is chaired by the EPA
Administrator and comprised of principals from other agencies. The purpose of
the EJ IWG is to guide, support, and enhance federal environmental justice and
community-based activities.
The following five activities will be conducted to implement this strategy:
• Activity 1.1: Chair and convene EJ IWG Principal, Deputy, and Senior Staff
meetings. EPA and the other federal agencies place a high priority on
facilitating the integration of environmental justice into federal agency
programs, policies, and activities. For example, in 2010, EPA and CEQ
HUD-DOT-EPA Interagency Partnership for
Sustainable Communities
The Partnership for Sustainable Communities is
supporting an Environmental Justice Showcase
Communities project in Jacksonville, Florida. This
EPA program convenes federal agencies, state and
local government entities, non-governmental
organizations, and other stakeholders to help
underserved communities shape their neighborhoods'
futures with comprehensive, locally appropriate
solutions.
The agencies and stakeholders will support the local
partners as they establish a community health center
on a cleaned-up brownfield site close to parks,
community gardens, and other amenities. The area
has several Superfund and brownfield sites and high
rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, asthma, and
infant mortality. The health center will work in
partnership with historically black colleges and
universities to provide training for health care jobs and
offer educational programs on healthy living. The
lessons learned through this and other Environmental
Justice Showcase Communities pilots will help the
Partnership better use its resources to help
underserved communities build more sustainable
neighborhoods with better access to opportunities;
improved services and amenities; and healthier places
to live, work, and play.
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reconvened the EJ IWG for the first time in over a decade. The White House,
EJ IWG members, and other federal agency representatives expressed their
commitment to meet their responsibilities under EO 12898. EPA and CEQ
also hosted the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice. At the
Forum, EJ IWG members and other federal agency representatives reengaged
with environmental justice advocates about issues that are important to
overburdened communities. Moving forward, EPA will continue to lead EJ
IWG meetings and events.
Activity 1.2: Chair, assist, and oversee each federal agency's effort to update
or develop its environmental justice strategy. This Administration is
committed to identifying, evaluating, and reducing environmental and human
health burdens while increasing environmental and human health benefits in
overburdened communities. Accordingly, each federal agency will update, or
in some cases develop, an environmental justice strategy that will be
responsive to the environmental and human health needs of overburdened
communities.
Activity 1.3: Lead the effort to organize regional events. EPA and other
federal agencies recognize that, to successfully address the needs of
overburdened communities, federal agencies must engage environmental
justice stakeholders in and around their communities. To further this effort,
EPA will lead the development of regional events where EJ IWG members and
other federal agency representatives will meet with environmental justice
stakeholders to discuss and help resolve issues that are important to
communities in each region.
Activity 1.4: Develop and provide tools that help environmental justice and
other stakeholders identify federal information and resources. This
Administration recognizes the need to provide federal resources, contact
information, lessons learned, and other information to environmental justice
stakeholders. As a result, EPA will develop information and resource tools to
promote collaboration between federal agencies and environmental justice
stakeholders and improve opportunities for environmental justice
stakeholders to utilize federal resources.
Activity 1.5: Convene a group of senior attorneys from across the federal
government to promote the integration of environmental justice into their
agencies' actions. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),
EPA's Office of General Counsel (OGC), the Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance (OECA), and the Office of Regional Counsel (ORC) will
bring together attorneys from agencies across the federal government that
have an interest in environmental justice. We will convene monthly meetings
at the staff level to share information about legal issues the agencies have
encountered and think through the role of Agency attorneys in promoting
their agencies' environmental justice policies. We also hope to develop other
forms of information-sharing tools. Our goal is to help EJ IWG members and
other agencies with environmental justice interest to understand the legal
tools available to them to promote environmental justice.
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Strategy 2: Work with other federal agencies to strengthen use of interagency
legal tools, such as the National Environmental Policy Act and Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
NEPA is an important tool that can be used to help advance the goals of
environmental justice. NEPA emphasizes transparency and public involvement
and promotes better, more responsible decision making by the federal
government. Namely, NEPA requires federal agencies to assess and disclose
environmental impacts, which include environmental justice considerations,
when proposing actions. Further, under the Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 309, EPA
is mandated to review Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), comment in
writing, and make those comments available to the public. These reviews include
an assessment of whether the requirements of EO 12898 and the accompanying
Presidential Memorandum on environmental justice are considered and
integrated within the NEPA process. We have identified a number of activities
that EPA, in concert with other federal agencies, can take to strengthen all
agencies' abilities to incorporate environmental justice into major federal
activities.
• Activity 2.1: Articulate a consistent message about the need to incorporate
environmental justice into NEPA implementation efforts. We will articulate a
clear, consistent message about need to incorporate environmental justice
considerations into NEPA implementation efforts. We will reinforce the
utility of NEPA as a tool to effect good environmental decision making and
take environmental justice into account through CAA Section 309 reviews. In
addition to improving internal collaboration on environmental justice, a clear
message will enable the Agency to send consistent messages to external
stakeholders.
• Activity 2.2: Enable federal NEPA practitioners to enhance consideration and
execution of environmental justice requirements in NEPA implementation
efforts. We will develop tools to help federal NEPA practitioners in EPA and
other agencies enhance environmental justice considerations in NEPA
implementation efforts by identifying and disseminating best practices in
general and in specific sectors. These tools can assist agencies in analyzing
environmental impacts and community concerns and will emphasize the
benefits of having robust, Agency-specific formal NEPA-specific
environmental justice guidance.
Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race,
color, and national origin, including matters related to language access for limited
English proficient persons, by recipients of federal financial assistance. Under
EPA's Title VI regulations, recipients of EPA financial assistance are prohibited
from, among other things, using "criteria or methods of administering its program
which have the effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination based on their
race, color, or national origin." For example, facially-neutral policies or practices
that result in discriminatory effects violate EPA's Title VI regulations, unless it is
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shown that they are justified and that there is no less discriminatory alternative.
In addition, EPA's regulations and Title VI prohibit intentional discrimination by
recipients. Other similar laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, sex, and
disability by recipients of federal financial assistance.
OCR has identified two activities that EPA, in concert with DOJ, can take to
strengthen the use of Title VI:
• Activity 2.3: Consult with DOJ to strengthen the use of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 by re-evaluating the approach for analyzing Title VI
complaints.
• Activity 2.4: Collaborate with DOJ and within EPA, to develop compliance
strategies and actions to address non-compliance.
Strategy 3: Foster healthy and sustainable communities, with an emphasis on
equitable development and place-based initiatives.
Increasingly, environmentally and economically burdened communities are
seeking comprehensive solutions that address adverse human health and
environmental effects, as well as health disparities, while enabling these
communities to make a transition to sustainable community development.
Communities are calling upon federal agencies to work in a coordinated manner.
Resulting efforts will improve community access to the environmental, public
health, and economic benefits that define a healthy and sustainable community.
By mobilizing the resources of all federal agencies, the EJ IWG can foster efforts
to ensure that we address adverse human health and environmental effects in
overburdened communities, including legacy pollution problems rooted in
historical discrimination and cumulative impacts, and ensure that all communities
participate in, and benefit from, the transition to a clean energy economy.
As a result of community input and the White House Forum on Environmental
Justice, the EJ IWG identified four areas of significant concern to overburdened
communities:
• Green Jobs and Clean Energy.
• Healthy and Sustainable Communities.
• Climate Change and Adaptation.
• Goods Movement.
The following activity will be conducted to implement Strategy 3.
• Activity 3.1: Recommend ways to enhance federal interagency coordination
in support of healthy and sustainable communities as well as equitable
development. EPA, in conjunction with other federal agencies, will develop a
proposal to the EJ IWG for how federal agencies can coordinate action in each
of the four areas identified above to improve the health and sustainability of
overburdened communities in the implementation of existing executive
orders and administration priorities. Federal agencies will make community
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engagement an important part of our efforts to identify environmental justice
issues and opportunities for interagency collaboration. Actions should be
based on the following principles:
o Designate an EJ IWG agency to serve as lead.
o Build on and leverages existing Administration initiatives.
o Enhance existing policies or programs to address environmental
justice issues.
o Identify data needs and success measures.
o Identifies place-based project for coordinated action, if appropriate.
o Address issues of community access to resources and technical
assistance.
o Promote state, regional, local, and tribal partnerships.
o Utilize regional forums and other community outreach to inform
federal actions.
Strategy 4: Strengthen Community Access to Federal Agencies.
In the priorities outlined by Administrator Lisa Jackson last year, she highlighted
the importance of expanding the conversation on environmentalism and working
for environmental justice. With that priority in mind, the Administrator
acknowledged the importance of reaching out to and engaging with communities.
As part of this interagency focus on environmental justice, one of EPA's goals is to
strengthen the ability of communities to access the federal programs and the
expertise that they need to realize their goals for a healthy and sustainable way of
life. In support of that goal, EPA will implement actions that eliminate barriers,
make connections, fill gaps, and reduce duplication so that communities are
better able to access the federal resources they need.
• Activity 4.1: Community Needs Inventory Pilot. In order to determine the
areas of interagency cooperation that need improvement, the EPA regions
will select three communities of concern about which they have extensive
knowledge. Each EPA region will develop an inventory of the communities'
already-identified needs and then identify the federal agency(ies) that could
address each need. Once that has been accomplished for all regions, a data
set of thirty communities will be available so that the EJ IWG can identify
trends - for example, those three or four federal agencies whose assistance is
needed in the broadest number of communities. The product of this internal
EPA analysis will be a request to the Administrator to approach those
agencies through the EJ IWG for a commitment and the development of
strategies.
• Activity 4.2: Targeted Training for Communities. EPA will identify appropriate
delivery mechanisms to convey information to communities on existing
federal programs and expertise relevant to them. This information will be
based on the work already underway in the EJ IWG and EPA's Office of Policy
(OP) to catalog existing federal programs and expertise. Potential delivery
mechanisms include trainings, conferences, and webinars.
• Activity 4.3: Review Federal Partners Meeting. EPA will review action items
from the April 2010 Federal Partners Meeting, determine which
recommendations support strengthening community access to federal
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agencies, and determine how to incorporate them into this implementation
plan. This will result in a more robust implementation plan in the future and
will help advance the outcomes of the Federal Partners Meeting. This is being
done in coordination with Plan EJ 2014 community-based action efforts.
• Activity 4.4: Coordination with Agency Community-Based Coordination
Efforts. A member of this Fostering Administration-Wide Action on
Environmental Justice Workgroup will participate on the parallel workgroup
under the OP's Community-Based Coordination Efforts (CBCE) Initiative's
Cross-Agency External Coordination Workgroup. This person will ensure that
environmental justice communities' needs are adequately addressed in each
of the activities recommended and ultimately undertaken. The CBCE Cross-
Agency External Coordination Workgroup is recommending a number of
activities, including:
o Cataloguing existing community-based efforts with interagency
coordination.
o Mining existing community-based efforts with interagency
coordination for best practices.
Improving community access to federal agency resources, including a website
portal that will serve as a one-stop shop for communities to access all federal
agencies according to searchable needs and key words.
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Community engagement and stakeholder partnership activities are integrated
into the different strategies and activities of this implementation plan. Many of
the strategies and activities in this plan resulted from community dialogues and
the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council's (NEJAC) advice and
recommendations. In addition, we will coordinate our community outreach and
stakeholder involvement efforts with OEJ.
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3.0 DELIVERABLES
Strategy 1: Assist other federal agencies to better integrate environmental justice
into agency programs, policies, and activities.
ACTIVITY
Activity 1.1: Chair and
convene EJ IWG
Principal, Deputy, and
Senior Staff meetings.
DELIVERABLES
Chair annual
Principals/Deputies
meetings.
Chair Senior Staff
meetings/calls.
MILESTONES
By the end of 2011
Monthly
Activity 1.2: Chair,
assist, and oversee each
federal agency's effort to
update or develop its
environmental justice
strategy.
Oversee the finalization
of each agency's
environmental justice
strategy.
By the end of 2011
Activity 1.3: Lead the
effort to organize regional
events.
Hold at least one event
in each EPA region, or
in appropriate
equivalent.
By the end of 2011
Activity 1.4: Develop
and provide tools that
help environmental justice
and other stakeholders
identify federal
information and
resources.
Publish a draft Federal
Environmental Justice
Directory and draft
Federal Resource
Guide.
Review EPA's EJ IWG
website.
Update EPA's EJ IWG
website.
By the end of 2011
Annually
As appropriate
Activity 1.5: Convene a
group of senior attorneys
from across the
Administration in order to
promote the integration of
environmental justice into
their agencies' actions.
Conduct meetings on
regular basis.
As appropriate
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Strategy 2: Work with other federal agencies to strengthen use of interagency
legal tools, i.e., National Environmental Policy Act and Title VI of Civil Rights Act of
1964.
ACTIVITY
Activity 2.1: Articulate
a consistent message
about the need to
incorporate
environmental justice
into NEPA
implementation.
Activity 2.2: Enable
federal NEPA
practitioners to enhance
consideration and
execution of
environmental justice
requirements in NEPA
implementation.
DELIVERABLES
Issue a directive to NEPA
reviewers emphasizing
environmental justice,
reinforcing the utility of
NEPA through CAA Section
309 reviews as a tool to
effect good decisions and
take into account
environmental justice
considerations.
• Stakeholder outreach:
Work with regional
managers. Post on
web.
Engage with federal
agencies to identify unique
or "best practices." Develop
information on "best
practices" for implementing
environmental justice
requirements in the NEPA
process and post on the
internet.
• Stakeholder outreach:
Work with EPA
environmental justice
experts and regional
NEPA practitioners.
Share with the NEJAC.
Work with the EJ IWG,
White House CEQ, federal
agencies, and the NEJAC to
urge that all federal
agencies with NEPA
responsibilities have robust
agency-specific guidance in
place setting forth a process
to meaningfully consider
environmental justice in the
NEPA EIS process. EPA
will identify and disseminate
examples/components of
strong guidance.
• Stakeholder outreach:
EJ IWG, White House
CEQ, NEJAC.
March 31, 2011
September 30, 2011
June 30, 2011
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ACTIVITY
DELIVERABLES
Develop a best practices
tool for regulators to analyze
specific environmental
impacts and identify typical
community concerns for a
particular sector.
• Stakeholder outreach:
Work with affected
regions, communities,
and federal and state
regulators.
September 31, 2011
Activity 2.3: Develop a
plan of action, in
consultation with DOJ,
which will outline how
EPA will re-evaluate the
approach for analyzing
Title VI complaints.
Convene stakeholder
dialogue to discuss the re-
evaluation of the approach
for analyzing Title VI
complaints.
• Stakeholder Outreach:
Work with EPA; DOJ;
state agencies;
businesses; and civil
rights, environmental
justice, community, and
other experts.
June 30, 2011
Activity 2.4: Collaborate
with DOJ and EPA to
develop compliance
strategies and actions to
address non-
compliance.
Develop a comprehensive
plan of action that will
outline how EPA will
implement this approach.
• Stakeholder Outreach:
Work with EPA and
DOJ.
Convene EPA, DOJ, and
other federal agencies to
hold stakeholder dialogues
to discuss the development
of compliance strategies and
actions to address non-
compliance.
• Stakeholder Outreach:
Work with EPA, DOJ,
and other federal
agencies.
September 30, 2011
November 30, 2011
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Strategy 3: Foster Healthy and Sustainable Communities, with emphasis on
equitable development and place-based initiatives.
ACTIVITY
DELIVERABLES
MILESTONES
Activity 3.1: Recommend
ways by which the EJ
IWG can enhance
interagency coordination
in support of healthy and
sustainable communities.
Develop proposal to EJ IWG for
how federal agencies can
coordinate action to improve the
health and sustainability of
overburdened communities in the
implementation of existing
executive orders and
administration priorities, in the at
least two of the following four
areas:
• Clean Jobs and Clean
Energy.
• Healthy and Sustainable
Communities.
• Climate Change and
Adaptation.
• Goods Movement.
September 30,
2012
Strategy 4: Strengthen Community Access to Federal Agencies.
ACTIVITY
Activity 4.1: Community
Needs Inventory Pilot.
DELIVERABLES
Inventory of three Region 6
environmental justice
communities' needs and
corresponding federal agencies.
Inventory of 27 remaining
regional environmental justice
communities' needs and
corresponding federal agencies.
Analysis of commonalities and
trends.
Recommendations made to
Administrator to take to the EJ
IWG.
MILESTONES
April 30, 2011
By June 15,2011
By December 31,
2011
By May 31, 2012
Activity 4.2: Targeted
Training for Communities.
Assessment of program
cataloging results in the EJ
IWG and OP efforts.
Identification of best delivery
mechanisms to reach
communities.
By September 30,
2011
Activity 4.3: Review
Federal Partners Meeting
Recommendations.
Identification of
recommendations from the April
2010 Federal Partners Meeting to
determine which to incorporate.
By June,2011
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ACTIVITY
Activity 4.4: Coordination
with Agency CBCE
Initiative.
DELIVERABLES
Draft options paper for Executive
Management Council (EMC)
review.
Form workgroups to implement
selected actions.
By February 15,
2011
To be determined
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Progress reports on this implementation plan will be made annually. The planned
deliverables and milestones for each of the activities are described above. Each
of the offices responsible will further refine and develop the activities during the
process of implementation. For information, please contact Sherri White, 202-
564-2462, White.Sherri@epa.gov; or Alice Walker, 202-529-7534,
Walker.Alice@epa.gov.
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CAA Clean Air Act
CBCE Community-based coordination efforts (initiative)
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
DOJ U.S. Department of Justice
EJIWG Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EO 12898 Executive Order 12898 on environmental justice
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NEJAC National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
OECA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
OEJ Office of Environmental Justice
OCIR Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
OCR Office of Civil Rights
OFA Office of Federal Activities
OGC Office of General Counsel
OP Office of Policy
ORC Office of Regional Counsel
OSWER Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
OW Office of Water
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For more information on Plan EJ 2014, visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of
Environmental Justice website at: http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/plan-ej7
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