Environmental Justice

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Advise and Recommendations

• Future Mechanisms to Enhance Stakeholder Involvement and Engagement to Address Environmental Justice (PDF) -August 2006 (211KB, 26 pages)
  • EPA Response to Recommendations (PDF) (153KB, 2 pages)
  
  
• The 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes and Vulnerable Populations: Recommendations for Future Disaster Preparedness/Response (PDF) -August 2006 (219KB, 25 pages)
  • EPA Response to Recommendations (PDF) (438KB, 6 pages)
  
  
• Unintended Impacts of Redevelopment and Revitalization Efforts in Five Environmental Justice Communities (PDF) -August 2006 (284KB, 40 pages)
  • EPA Response to Recommendations (PDF) (234KB, 5 pages)
  
  
• Ensuring Risk Reduction in Communities with Multiple Stressors: Environmental Justice and Cumulative Risks/Impacts (PDF) -December 2004 (2,601KB, 178 pages)
  
  
• Meaningful Involvement and Fair Treatment by Tribal Environmental Regulatory Programs (PDF) -November 2004 (407KB, 68 pages)
  
  
• Environmental Justice and Federal Facilities: Recommendations for Improving Stakeholder Relations Between Federal Facilities and Environmental Justice Communities (PDF) -October 2004 (1,434KB, 94 pages)
  
  
• Advancing Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention: -June 2003
  
  
• Fish Consumption and Environmental Justice: -November 2002
  
  
• NEJAC Report on Integration of Environmental Justice in Federal Programs: -June 2002
  
  
• Environmental Justice and Community-Based Health Model Discussion: -February 2001
  
  
• Guide on Consultation and Collaboration with Indian Tribal Governments and the Public Participation of Indigenous Groups and Tribal Members in the Environmental Decision Making (PDF) -November 2000 (1,170KB, 59 pages)
  
  
• Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process: -August 2000
  
  
• A Regulatory Strategy for Siting and Operating Waste Transfer Stations (PDF) -March 2000 (287KB, 77 pages)
  • Executive Summary (PDF) (83KB, 14 pages)
  
  
• Model Plan for Participation (PDF) -February 2000 (465KB, 20 pages)
  • El Plan Modelo Para Participacion Publica (PDF) -Febrero de 2000 (156KB, 15 pages)
  
  
• Public Dialogues on Urban Revitalization and Brownfields: Envisioning Healthy and Sustainable Communities (PDF) -December 1996 (326KB, 85 pages)
  
  
• U.S. EPA/NEJAC Roundtable on Superfund Relocation issues (PDF) -December 1996 (172KB)
  
  
• Report on the Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Roundtable (PDF) -October 1996 (246KB, 48 pages)
  
  
• Draft Memorandum on Integrating Environmental Justice into EPA Permitting Authority (PDF) -July 1996 (106KB, 24 pages)

Other Resources

• NEJAC Factsheet -September 2006: English (PDF) (PDF 62KB, 2 pages) or Spanish (PDF) (61KB, 2 pages)
  
  
• NEJAC Charter (PDF) -September 2006 (20KB, 3 pages)
  
  
• NEJAC Strategic Plan (PDF) -November 2001 (419KB, 22 pages)
  
  
• NEJAC: Past Meetings Summaries