EPA Near-port Community Capacity
Building/ Stakeholder Engagement
Pilot Project Opportunity
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What is the pilot opportunity?
EPA is offering an opportunity for community stakeholders and ports to participate
in pilot projects to:
•	Test and refine the draft stakeholder engagement and capacity building tools:
o Ports Primer for Communities
Draft Ports Primer for Communities (PDF)
o Community Action Roadmap
_	Draft Community Action Roadmap (PDF)
o Environmental Justice Primer for Ports
Draft Environmental Justice Primer for Ports (PDF)
•	Enhance community skills for building partnerships and effectively engaging
in local decision-making to improve environmental health and quality of life
•	Develop an action plan and identify resources for implementing the plan
. • Equip and empower overburdened communities to influence decision-making
about port-related goods movement
•	Improve environmental performance at ports and enhance port facilities
<	capacity for building effective partnerships and collaboratively addressing
community needs
What kind of Technical Assistance will be provided?
EPA will provide Technical Assistance to pilot project participants to support
community stakeholders in addressing their prioritized challenges:
•	Provide support for community tour to highlight local challenges
•	Provide support for workshop on how to apply engagement/capacity building
tools to community's specific challenges
•	Support in developing an engagement action plan
•	Mentor support to adopt success models and strategies
•	Additional community support may include community outreach/public
involvement support; conflict prevention and resolution processes; situation
assessments; project evaluation measures; training workshops; research and
writing case studies
Jk United States
Environmental Protection
^1	Agency
Office of Transportation and Air Quality
EPA-420-F-16-056
December 2016

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