Presidential Executive Order 12898 - Environmental Justice

I. Overview

II. Projects/Developments

A. EPA
B. National Environmental Advisory Council

III. Publications

A. The White House
B. EPA
C. Federal Agency Environmental Justice Strategies

IV. Contacts

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I. Overview

Environmental justice is a movement promoting the fair treatment of people of all races, income, and culture with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Fair treatment implies that no person or group of people should shoulder a disproportionate share of the negative environmental impacts resulting from the execution of this country's domestic and foreign policy programs. (The environmental justice movement is also occasionally referred to as Environmental Equity -- which EPA defines as the equal treatment of all individuals, groups or communities regardless of race, ethnicity, or economic status, from environmental hazards).

The environmental justice movement is generally acknowledged to have emerged in the early 1980's in response to large demonstration opposing the siting of a PCB-landfill in a predominantly black community in Warren County, North Carolina. Subsequent studies and public attention raised concerns of the fairness and protection afforded under existing environmental programs -- concerns that are now receiving increased attention at all levels of government as well as within the private private community.

Today, environmental justice is a priority both within the White House and EPA. The Administration has documented its concern over this issue through issuing Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations (February 11, 1994). This Order requires that federal agencies make achieving environmental justice part of their mission (a summary of the requirements imposed under E.O. 12898 is provided below. The Order itself is provided under a separate file). Similarly, the EPA has identified environmental justice a key priority under the Browner Administration. EPA created an Office of Environmental Justice (originally the Office of Environmental Equity) in 1992, commissioned a task force to address environmental justice issues, oversees a Federal Advisory Committee addressing environmental justice issues (the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council), and has developed an implementation strategy as required under E.O. 12898.

The environmental justice movement has both direct and indirect links with pollution prevention. At the most basic level, pollution prevention provides a means of achieving or improving environmental justice through reducing the environmental and health impacts that must be borne by any element of society. In recognition of this, the environmental justice grants program makes achieving pollution prevention an express objective of projects eligible for grants. In addition, environmental education efforts focused on promoting fair treatment emphasize the importance of pollution prevention in achieving programmatic objectives. Many environmental justice leaders also participate in the Common Sense Initiative, EPA's program to work with segments of industry to promote waste reduction, compliance, and the streamlining of environmental regulations. Finally, EPA is examining integrating considerations of environmental justice in the use of Supplemental Environmental Projects to promote compliance and program objectives.

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II. Projects/Development

A. EPA

1. Office of Environmental Justice (Office of Administration and Resources Management)

In November, 1992, EPA created an Office of Environmental Justice (originally named the Office of Environmental Equity) to examine and integrate environmental justice concerns into EPA's existing environmental programs. The Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) serves as the focal point for environmental justice concerns within EPA and provides coordination and oversight regarding these concerns to all parts of the Agency. The OEJ also coordinates communication and public outreach activities, provides technical and financial assistance to outside groups investigating environmental justice issues, and serves as a central environmental justice information clearinghouse. The OEJ provides technical support to environmental justice research and demonstration projects examining whether EPA programs contribute to disproportionate risks faced by some low-income and minority populations, as well as responding to inquiries from Congress and other interested parties. The OEJ is Directed by Dr. Clarice Gaylord (202 260-6357).

The OEJ coordinates EPA's Minority Academic Institutions (MAI) Program. This program attempts to increase the number of minority students receiving science and engineering degrees and to improve the quality of minority student education in the sciences. Additional activities undertaken by the OEJ include:

• Establishing EPA environmental equity programs
  
• Working with Regional EPA Offices to establish environmental equity programs
  
• Tracking the implementation of EPA environmental equity efforts
  
• Serving as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of environmental equity information to EPA staff and the public
  
• Providing interagency coordination on environmental equity issues
  
• Participating in interagency task forces established to address environmental equity issues
  
• Enhancing equity outreach, training, and educational programs for the public through conferences, symposia, and other meetings
  
• Providing sponsorship for the EPA summer intern program for undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and Tribal colleges to receive training in environmental protection fields
  
• Supporting consultation between EPA and outside environmental equity organizations
  
• Supporting key research on environmental risk education
  
• Providing minority and low-income communities with technical and financial assistance for community/economic development activities to address environmental equity issues
  
• Providing economic development opportunities for unemployed residents of public housing through a memorandum of understanding signed on May 7, 1993, with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Commerce, and the Government of the District of Columbia
  
• Developing a plan to integrate the EPA Minority Academic Institutions program with the environmental equity programs
  
• Providing MAIs with institutional access to EPA, and
  
• Implementing the recommendations of the MAI Task Force as reported in the May, 1991 final Action Plan for Minority Academic Institutions.

2. Grant Program

In June 1993, EPA's OEJ was delegated authority to solicit and select environmental justice projects, issue grants for such projects, supervise and evaluate these projects, and disseminate information on the effectiveness of the projects and the feasibility of the practices, methods, techniques, and processes examined as applied to environmental justice issues. In FY 1994 the environmental justice grants program was initiated. EPA divided approximately $500,000 among it 10 Regional Offices, and directed these offices to make grants awards in amounts not to exceed $10,000 per grant. Seventy-one (71) grants totalling $507,000 were awarded in FY 1994.

For FY 1995, OEJ has budgeted $3,000,000 for environmental justice grants. Each Region will have $300,000 to award in amounts not to exceed $20,000 per grant.

The grant program is intended to provide financial assistance and promote the public interest by supporting projects undertaken by affected community groups to address environmental justice issues. Eligible groups include any affected community group (i.e., community-based/grassroots organizations, schools, educational agencies, colleges or universities, and non-profits organizations) as well as Tribal governments. Applicants must be incorporated and non-profit to receive grants. Applicants submit pre-applications which are evaluated according to the criteria set out in EPA's Pre-Application Kit, with grants awarded to those projects selected by the respective EPA Regional Offices. The deadline for pre-applications for 1995 is February 4, 1995; awards are expected to made April-May, 1995. To be placed on the mailing list for OEJ's FY 1996 Pre-Application Assistance Kit mail your request, name, organization, and phone number to:

U.S. EPA
Office of Environmental Justice Grants
-- FY 1996 (3103)
401 MJ St. S.W.
Washington D.C. 20460

To be selected for an award, the project must include one or more of the following four objectives:

• Identify the necessary improvements in communication and coordination among existing community-based/grassroots organizations, and local, state, tribal, and federal environmental programs, and all other stakeholders. Facilitate communication, information exchange, and partnerships among the stakeholders to address environmental injustices (e.g., workshops, awareness conferences, establishment of community stakeholder committees, community newsletters, etc.)
• Motivate the general public to be more conscious of their local environmental justice issues or problems and encourage the community to take action to address these issues (e.g., reforestation efforts, monitoring of socioeconomic changes due to environmental abuse, stream monitoring, etc.)
• Develop and demonstrate an environmental justice practices, method or technique that has wide application and addresses an environmental justice issue that is not of high priority.
• Teach about risk reduction and pollution prevention, and seek technical experts to demonstrate how to access, analyze, and interpret public environmental data ( e.g., Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), and other databases).

Priority will be given to community based/grassroots organizations, tribes, and organizations whose projects will help improve the environmental quality of the affected communities by developing:

• an environmental justice project, activity, method, or technique that may have broad application;
  
• a practice, method, or technique that enhances skills in addressing environmental justice issues;
  
• an environmental justice education practice, method or technique that environmental issues; or
  
• an environmental justice project or activity that establishes or expands information systems for local communities.

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B. National Environmental Advisory Council

Under the auspices of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C., App. II) EPA has established the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Administrator of EPA on matters relating environmental justice. The NEJAC holds meetings, analyzes issues, conducts reviews, performs studies, produces reports, makes recommendations and conducts other activities as appropriate given its mission and the objectives of EPA's environmental justice program. NEJAC is composed of a parent Council and four subcommittees (Public Participation and Accountability, Enforcement, Waste and Facility Siting, and Health and Research). NEJAC's members include representatives of academia, industry, community groups, non-governmental organizations, state, tribal and local governments, and environmental organizations. The Chairperson of the NEJAC is Mr. Richard Moore, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, 211 10th St. S.W., Albuquerque, NM 87102 (Ph.: 505 242-0416; Fax: 505 242-5609). The Designated Federal Officer is Dr. Clarice Gaylord, Director of EPA's OEJ, EPA OEJ, 401 M. St. S.W., Washington D.C. 20460 (Ph.: 202 260-6357; Fax: 202 260-0852).

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III. Publications

A. The White House

1. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations - Executive Order 12898

• Background: Issued by the President on February 11, 1994 and became effective on that date.
• General Purposes:
  
  1. to focus attention on federal agencies on the human health and environmental conditions in minority communities and low-income communities with the goal of achieving environmental justice (EJ);
     
  2. to foster non-discrimination in federal programs that substantially affect human health or the environment;
     
  3. to give minority communities and low-income communities greater opportunities for public participation in, and access to public information on, matters relating to human health and the environment.

2. Federal Agency Responsibilities Under the Order

• Scope and General Agency Responsibility

  The Order applies to federal agencies named to an interagency working group, and other agencies designated by the President, that conduct activities that substantially affect human health or the environment.

  To the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, agencies must make achieving EJ part of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States and it territories and possessions, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands.

  Agency heads may petition the President for a full or partial exemption from the requirements of the Order.

• Interagency Working Group

  To assist agencies in carrying out their responsibilities, the Order creates an interagency Federal Working Group on Environmental Justice (Working Group) chaired by the EPA Administrator or her designee. The Working Group is comprised of the heads of various agencies and White House offices or their designees.

  The Administrator or her designee must convene the Working Group by May 11, 1994.

• Responsibilities of the Working Group include:
  
  1. developing guidance on criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations;
     
  2. coordinating with federal agencies during the development of EJ strategies to ensure consistent implementation of the Order;
     
  3. assisting in research coordination;
     
  4. assisting in coordinating data collection;
     
  5. holding public meetings for fact-finding, receiving public comments, and making inquiries about EJ, and preparing for public review a summary of the comments and recommendations discussed at such meetings;
     
  6. examining existing EJ data and studies; and
     
  7. developing interagency model projects that show cooperation among agencies.

  By April 11, 1995, the Working Group must report on the President, through the Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Policy and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, on implementation of the Order.

• EJ Strategy

  Each agency must develop an agency-side EJ strategy that dentifies and addressed disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations, by taking the following steps:
  

  1. identifying an internal administrative process for developing an agency-wide EJ strategy and informing the Working Group of that process by June 11, 1994;
     
  2. providing to the Working Group an outline of the agency's proposed EJ strategy by August 11, 1994;
     
  3. giving to the Working Group the agency's proposed EJ strategy by December 11, 1994;
     
  4. finalizing the agency's EJ strategy and giving a copy and written description of it to the Working Group by February 11, 1995;
     
  5. including in the agency's final EJ strategy:
     
     1. the identity of, and an implementation schedule for, several specific projects that can be undertaken promptly to address particular concerns identified during the development of the proposed EJ strategy: (1) a list of agency programs, policies, planning, and public participation processes, enforcement, and/or rulemaking that should be revised to, at a minimum: (a) promote enforcement of environmental and health statutes in areas with minority populations and low-income populations; (b) ensure greater public participation; (c) improve research and data collection relating to the health of an environment of minority populations and low-income populations; and (d) identify differential patterns of subsistence use of natural resources among those populations; and (2) where appropriate, a timetable for undertaking and identified revisions and consideration of economic and social implications of the revisions; and
        
     2. reporting to the Work Group by February 11, 1996 on the agency's progress in implementing its final strategy.
• Nondiscrimination in Federal Agency Programs

  Each agency must conduct its programs, policies, and activities that substantially affect human health or the environment in a manner that ensures that they do not have the effect of:
  

  1. excluding persons (including populations) from participation in;
     
  2. denying them the benefits of; or
     
  3. subjecting them to discrimination under such programs, policies, and activities, because of their race, color, or natural origin.
     
• Research, Data Collection, and Analysis

  Whenever practicable and appropriate, federal agency environmental human health research must include diverse segments of the population in epidemiological and clinical studies, including those at high risk from environmental hazards, such as minority populations, low-income populations, and workers who may be exposed to substantial environmental hazards.

  Whenever practicable and appropriate, federal agency human health analyses must identify multiple and cumulative exposures.

  Agencies must give minority populations and low-income populations an opportunity to comment on agency research strategies developed under the Order.

  To the extent permitted by existing law, each agency, whenever practical and appropriate, must collect, maintain, and analyze information that assesses and compares environmental and human health risks borne by populations identified by race, national origin, or income.

  To the extent practical and appropriate, each agency must use this information to determine whether its programs, policies, and activities have disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations.

  In connection with the development and implementation of its EJ strategy, each agency, whenever practicable and appropriate, must collect, maintain, and analyze readily available information on the race, national origin, income level, and other readily accessible and appropriate information for areas surrounding:
  

  1. facilities or sites that are expected to have a substantial environmental, human health, or economic effect on the surrounding populations, when those facilities or sites become the subject of a substantial federal environmental administrative or judicial action; and
     
  2. federal facilities that are subject to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act reporting requirements in Executive Order 12856 and are expected to have a substantial environmental, human health, or economic effect on the surrounding populations.

  Unless prohibited by law, agencies must make available to the public the information they collect on populations surrounding these facilities or sites.

  In carrying out the human health and environmental data collection and analysis provisions of the Order, each agency, whenever practicable and appropriate, must share information and eliminate duplication of efforts through use of existing data systems and cooperative agreements among other federal agencies and with State, local, and tribal governments.

• Subsistence Consumption of Fish and Wildlife

  To assist in identifying the need for ensuring protection of populations with differential consumption patterns, agencies, whenever practicable and appropriate, must collect, maintain, and analyze information on the consumption patterns of populations who rely principally on fish and/or wildlife for subsistence.

  Agencies must inform the public of the risks of those consumption patterns.

  Based on the latest scientific information available, agencies, whenever practicable and appropriate, must work in a coordinated manner to publish guidance concerning methods for evaluating the human health risks associated with the consumption of pollutant-bearing fish or wildlife.

  Agencies must consider this guidance in developing their policies and rules.

• Public Participation and Access to Information

  Agencies must convey to the Working Group recommendations made by the public relating to the incorporation of EJ principles into their programs or policies.

  Whenever practicable and appropriate, agencies may translate crucial public documents, notices, and hearings relating to human health or the environment for limited English-speaking populations.

  Agencies must work to ensure that public documents, notices, and hearings relating to human health and the environment are concise, understandable, and readily accessible to the public.

• General Provisions

  Agency heads are responsible for ensuring compliance with the Order. Agencies must conduct internal reviews and take such other steps as may be necessary to monitor compliance.

  Agency responsibilities under the Order apply equally to Native American programs. The Interior Department, in consultation with the Working Group, and, after consultation with tribal leaders, must coordinate steps to be taken under the Order that address federally-recognized Indian Tribes.

  Unless otherwise provided by law, agencies must assume the financial costs of their actions to comply with the Order.

  Agencies must implement the Order consistent with, and to the extent permitted by, existing law, including the unfunded mandate provisions of Executive Order 12875 entitled "Enhancing the Intergovernmental Partnership." The Order does not create a basis for a cause of action or a right to judicial review.

  The Order supplements, but does not supersede, Executive Order 12250 implementing laws prohibiting discrimination in federal financial assistance programs.

2. Federal Agency Responsibilities Under the Presidential Memorandum

Issued concurrently with Executive Order 12898.

The presidential memorandum underscores several provisions of environmental, civil rights, and other statutes that provide opportunities to prevent minority communities and low-income communities from being subject to disproportionately high and adverse environmental effects.

Pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, agencies must ensure that programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance that affect human health or the environment do not directly, or through contractual or other arrangements, use criteria, methods, or practices that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Each agency must analyze the environmental effects, including human health, economic and social effects, of its actions, including their effects on minority communities and low-income communities, when such analysis is required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Agencies must provide opportunities for community input in the NEPA process, including identifying potential effects and mitigation measures in consultation with affected communities and improving the accessibility of meetings, crucial documents, and notices.

In analyzing mitigation measures in its environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, and records of decision under NEPA, agencies, whenever feasible, should address significant and adverse environmental effects of their proposed actions on minority communities and low-income communities.

In its Clean Air Act section 309 review of environmental effects of proposed actions of other federal agencies, EPA must ensure that the action agency has fully analyzed environmentally effects on minority communities and low-income communities, including human health, social, and economic effects.

Agencies must ensure that the public, including minority communities and low-income communities, has adequate access to public information relating to human health or environmental planning, regulations, and enforcement when required under the Freedom of Information Act, the Government in the Sunshine Act, and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.

[Source: Fact Sheet on Executive Order 12898, "Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice In Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations" and its accompanying residential Memorandum]

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B. EPA

1. Draft Environmental Justice Strategy for Executive Order 12898, U.S. EPA, January 1995.

This document describes EPA's strategy for implementing Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and low-Income Populations. It includes an introduction, a discussion of mission areas, a description of environmental justice model projects, and an environmental justice contact list. The discussion of mission areas includes the following topics:

• health and environmental research;
  
• data collection, analysis, stakeholder access to public information;
  
• enforcement and compliance;
  
• partnerships, outreach and communications with stakeholders;
  
• native American, indigenous, and tribal programs; and
  
• integration of environmental justice.

2. Environmental Equity: Reducing Risk for All Communities (Volume 1 - Workgroup Report to the Administrator; Volume 2 - Supporting Document), U.S. EPA, EPA 230-R-92-008/008A, June 1992.

These documents contains a summary of the information collected and recommendations presented by EPA's Environmental Equity Workgroup, which was formed in July of 1990, and asked to review evidence that racial minority and low-income communities bear a disproportionate environmental risk burden. Volume 1 contains an introduction, a discussion of background and context, findings, recommendations and existing EPA projects. Volume 2 is a supporting document and contains an introduction, findings on health and exposures, an evaluation of EPA programs, a discussion of issues unique to Native Americans, a discussion of risk assessment and risk management, a discussion of risk communication, outreach efforts, regional level equity perspectives and efforts, an institutional model for addressing environmental equity issues, comment from external reviewers, and a bibliography.

3. OSWER Environmental Justice Task Force Draft Final Report, U.S. EPA, OSWER 9200.3-16 Draft, PB94-963224, EPA 540/R-94/003, April 25, 1994.

On November 29, 1993, Elliot Laws, the Assistant Administrator for OSWER, directed the formation of a task force to analyze environmental justice issues. The task force sought to achieve environmental protection for all as well as to educate and empower affected communities. The report includes an introduction and background section, a discussion of task force membership and outreach efforts, OSWER-wide environmental justice issues and recommendations, and program specific environmental justice issues and recommendations. Key areas of the tasks force's recommendations include the following:

• Empower communities and improve OSWER's communications with communities regarding EPA programs, thereby building trust in EPA;
  
• Incorporate environmental justice concerns into all OSWER decisionmaking and eliminate any potential for discrimination;
  
• Increase the priority of environmental justice issues on a national, regional, and state basis;
  
• Incorporate environmental justice concerns into OSWER risks assessment and risk management processes, including the consideration of multiple/cumulative risk;
  
• Integrate consideration of economic redevelopment and job creation with environmental justice;
  
• Develop employees and new job candidates such that they are sensitive to environmental justice issues.

4. OSWER Environmental Justice Task Force Report Executive Summary

This document presents a summary of EPA' EJ Task Force Report, including a discussion of background, goals for OSWER environmental justice, a summary of key issues and recommendations, program specific recommendations, resource implications, an implementation framework, schedule, and next steps.

5. EPA Environmental Justice Fact Sheets

EPA's Office of Environmental Justice has published fact sheets addressing:

• the Office of Environmental Justice (May 1994), the OEJ's Small Grants Program (August 1994), and
  
• Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and low-Income Populations (Undated).

These facts sheets summarize key information regarding the specific topic addressed and include contact information and a list of Regional justice coordinators.

6. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Justice Small Grants Program -- Pre-Application Kit for Assistance (FY 1995), U.S. EPA, 1995.

This document describes the OEJ Small Grants Program, including what types of activities are eligible for grants, how to pre-apply for a grant, the procedure and criteria used in the review and selection process, and requirements applicable to grant activities. This information is described above under Projects/Developments. The deadline for pre-applications for 1995 is February 4, 1995. To be placed on the mailing list for OEJ's FY 1996 Pre-Application Assistance Kit mail your request, name, organization, and phone number to:

U.S. EPA
Office of Environmental Justice Grants
-- FY 1996 (3103)
401 MJ St. S.W.
Washington D.C. 20460

7. Environmental Equity Update Memo[s], From Director of EPA Office of Environmental Equity to EPA Staff,(October 27, 1992; December 30, 1992; July 1993)

These memos/newsletters inform EPA about ongoing initiatives within the Office of Environmental Justice (formerly the Office of Environmental Equity). They address Office activities, Agency initiatives, programs and projects, communication, outreach and conferences, analysis, OEJ study groups, and topical issues (e.g., environmental justice issues facing Asian and pacific Americans).

8. Environmental Justice Bibliography, U.S. EPA OEJ

EPA's OEJ has compiled a bibliography of studies, articles and analyses pertaining to environmental justice issues. This bibliography is not touted as being comprehensive, but represents some of the prominent works done to date.

9. Proceedings of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, October 25-27, 1994, Hyatt Regency Hotel(Dulles Airport), Washington D.C.

The document summarizes the proceedings of the third meeting of the NEJAC and includes opening remarks, cross-cutting issues, reports from the subcommittees, completion of old business, new business (oral and written presentations), other discussions, an agenda for meeting with the EPA Administrator, a review of EPA's strategic plan, action items, a public comment period, and summaries of subcommittee activities.

10. Everything You Wanted to Know About Environmental Regulations... But Were Afraid to Ask: A Guide for Indian Nations, U.S. EPA Region VII, January 1994.

This document serves as a quick reference to environmental issues facing Indian communities and is intended for the use of representatives of those communities. The Handbook highlight services available to Indian communities from EPA Region VII and discusses cross-media programs, air programs, land programs, and water programs.

11. Environmental Risk in Indian Country, U.S. EPA, EPA 171-R-92-014, PB-92-182393, July 1992.

This document suggests that the environmental risks for American Indians are different than those experienced by the majority of Americans due to a variety of factors. It examines the population, health, economic, social and cultural characteristics of American Indians in arguing that EPA's current methods of risk assessment are not appropriate as applied to Indian lands and populations, and that additional resources are needed to bring environmental management on Indian lands up to the level of the states.

[Note: This document was prepared for EPA by a student under a National Network for Environmental Management Studies Fellowship and the contents are those of the author and not necessarily those of the U.S. EPA.]

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C. Federal Agency Environmental Justice Strategies

E.O. 12898 requires federal agencies to develop environmental justice strategies for implementing the requirements of the Executive Order. The strategies listed below are available for review and comment (comments on the strategies must be submitted by March 1, 1995):

Agency or Department (Publication No./Contact/Fax No.)

• Agriculture - (200-D-95-900/ Velma Charles-Sheldon/ 202 205-2891)
  
• Defense - (200-D-95-901/ Len Richeson/ 703 604-5396)
  
• Energy - (200-D-95-902/ Georgia Johnson/ 202 586-3075)
  
• Environmental Protection Agency - (200-D-95-903/ Clarice Gaylord/ 202 260-0852)
  
• Health, Human Services - (200-D-95-904/ DHHS Env. Just. Strategic Plan/ 301 589-0884)
  
• Housing & Urban Development - (200-D-95-905/ Richrard Broun/ 202 708-3363)
  
• Interior - (200-D-95-906/ Robert Faithful/ 202 208-6970)
  
• Justice - (200-D-95-907/ Cathy Sheafor/ 202 307-3904)
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - (200-D-95-908/ Maria Lopez-Otin/ 301 504-3502)

These strategies may be obtained free from the National Center for Environmental Publications and Information, P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45202; (Ph.: 513 489-8190; Fax: 513 489-8695). Please include publication number.

The following strategies should be available soon -- for information about their availability please contact: Department of Commerce (Paul Taggart - 202 482-4115); Department of Labor (Stephen Mallinger - 202 219-7031); Department of Transportation (Antonio Clifa - 202 366-4640); and NASA (Robert Hammond - 202 358-0230).

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IV. Contacts

EPA Director OEJ:
Dr. Clarice Gaylord, Director OEJ
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Environmental Equity
PM-224
401 M St., S.W.
Washington D.C. 20460
Phone: (202) 260-6357
Fax: (202) 260-0852
Hotline: (1-800) 962-6215

EPA Regional Contact Names and Addresses

Region 1	USEPA Region 1 John F. Kennedy Federal Building One Congress Street, 10th Floor OCR Boston, MA 02203 Primary Contact: James Younger 617/565-3427 Secondary Contact: Rhona Julien 617/565-9454
Region 2	USEPA Region 2 Javits Federal Building 26 Federal Plaza New York, NY 1027 Primary Contact: Lillian Johnson 212/264-7054 Secondary Contact: Natalie Loney 212/264-0002
Region 3	USEPA Region 3 (3PM-71) 841 Chestnut Building, 3DA00 Philadelphia, PA 19107-4431 Primary Contact: Mary Zielinski 315/597-6795 Secondary Contact: Dominique Luekenhoff 315/597-6529
Region 4	USEPA Region 4 345 Courtland Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30365 Primary Contact: Vivian Malone Jones 404/347-4294 x 6764 Secondary Contact: Hector Buitrago 404/347-2200
Region 5	USEPA Region 5 (H-75) 77 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL 60604-3507 Primary Contact: Gina Rosario 312/353-4716 Secondary Contact: Ethel Crisp 312/353-3810
Region 6	USEPA Region 6 (6M-P) 1445 Ross Avenue Dallas, TX 75202-2733 Primary Contact: Mary Wilson 214/665-6529 Secondary Contact: Lynda Carroll 214/665-6500
Region 7	USEPA Region 7 726 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS 66101 Primary Contact: Hattie Thomas 913/551-7003 Secondary Contact: Rupert Thomas 913/551-7661
Region 8	USEPA Region 8 (PM-AS) 999 18th Street, Suite 500 Denver, CO 80202-2405 Primary Contact: Mel McCottry 303/294-1982 Secondary Contact: Tempa Graves 303/294-1982
Region 9	USEPA Region 9 (E-1) 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Primary Contact: Lori Lewis 415/744-1561 Secondary Contact: Martha Vega 415/744-1609
Region 10	USEPA Region 10 (MD-142) 1200 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 Primary Contact: Robyn Meeker 206/553-8579 Secondary Contact: Joyce Kelly 206/553-4029
Headquarters	USEPA, Office of Environmental Justice (3103) 401 M Street, SW Washington, DC 20460 Primary Contact: Daniel Gogal 1-800-962-6215