Environmental Justice News and Events

January 18-20, 2006 – Waste Management National Meeting
For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/meeting/
June 27-30, 2006 - U.S. EPA Community Involvement Conference
For more information, visit http://www.epancic.org/

November 4, 2005 - Administrator Johnson Reaffirms Commitment to Environmental Justice.
Also available on http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/policies/ej/admin-ej-commit-letter-110305.pdf
August 21, 2001 - Administrator Whitman Reaffirms Commitment to Environmental Justice
Press Release
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August 21, 2001
April 27, 2001 - Deadline for Public comments on PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT POLICY
Press Release
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January 11, 2001
For more information, exit this Web page to the EPA's Draft Public Involvement Policy.
EPA PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT POLICY PROPOSED
Press Release
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January 11, 2001
For more information, exit this Web page to the EPA's Draft Public Involvement Policy page.
Title VI Case Studies Press Advisory
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June 11, 1999
For more information on Title VI Case Studies, click here.
For more information on Brownfields and Title VI, click here.
Administrator Carol Browner's Speech at Brownfields '98
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November 16, 1998

Administrator Browner's Remarks at the Environmental Justice Roundtable
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July 17, 1998
Administrator Browner's letter to the U.S. Conference of Mayors regarding Brownfields and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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June 18, 1998
For more information on Brownfields and Title VI, click here.
Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT) Grants Competition Announced. The original March 2, 1998 deadline for Letters of Intent was extended. Full applications were due May 15, 1998.
- Grant Competition Announcement
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To link to the EMPACT Homepage, click here.

NEJAC Reports.
Environmental Justice and Federal Facilities: Recommendations for Improving Stakeholder Relations between Federal Facilities and Environmental Justice Communities (October 2004) (PDF)
The NEJAC Waste Transfer Station Working Group, February 1999
- Meeting Agenda
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- Work Group Membership List
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- Work Group Scope
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- Work Group Questions
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1997-1998 Waste Programs Environmental Justice Accomplishments Report
- Full Report
  Publication Number: EPA-500-R-00-003
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  May 2000
  Report Table of Contents
Innovations in OSWER: Making Safer, More Livable Communities
- Publication Number: EPA-R-00-005
  [ PDF with graphics (33 pp, 9,000K, About PDF) | PDF with text only (32 pp, 200K, About PDF)]
  April 2000
The OSWER Innovations Report provides an integrated picture of how the waste management programs have evolved to make communities more livable.

Cumulative Risk Assessment Guidance-Phase I Planning and Scoping Now Available
- Memorandum
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  July 1997
- Guidance
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  July 1997
Brownfields Title VI Case Studies

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Appendix A: Case Study Methodology
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Appendix B: Pilot Case Studies
Publication Number: EPA-R-00-005
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April 2000