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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
UCLA
OF
BERKELEY
DAVIS
IRVINE
LOS ANGELES
RIVERSIDE
SAN DIEGO
SAN FRANCISCO
ALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA
SANTA CRUZ
1868
CENTER FOR AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
160 HAINES HALL
405 HILGARD AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024-1545
(310) 825-7403. FAX (310) 206-3421
September 21, 1993
Secretary Hazel O' Leary
Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585
Dear Secretary 'Leary:
I am writing you as an individual who along with Dr. Benjamin F.
Chavis served on the Clinton Transition Team in the Natural
Resources/Environment Cluster (e.g., Departments of Agriculture,
Energy, and Interior, and Environmental Protection Agency). The
initial call for me to serve on the Transition Team came from Mr.
Tom Grumbly (now DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Restoration and Waste Management)
I am currently serving as public representative on a Protocol
Committee (an ad hoc group of academicians and community leaders)
that is working with several federal agencies to plan a national
health research symposium. The public representatives of the
Protocol Committee are writing you to urge the Department of Energy
to join with the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences and other federal agencies to become a sponsor of the
national "Health Research Needs to Eliminate Environmental
Injustices" conference planned for February, 1994 in the
Washington, DC area.
Some key areas that will be explored at the 1994 conference
include:
Identification of "at risk" populations, research gaps,
methodologies for assessing vulnerabilities, and federal
financial resources committed to this area;
Development of comprehensive multi-year intra- and inter-agency
research agendas (with projected funding) that incorporate
community needs and priorities of affected (at-risk)
populations;
Delineation of general conceptual design of prevention and
intervention models as part of a larger research, education,
training, and community outreach effort to multilingual,
Secretary Hazel 'Leary
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multicultural, multiracial, and multiethnic populations;
Conceptual design of vehicles for increasing public input and
participation (especially from underrepresented populations)
in problem formulation, research design, data collection, and
implementation plans;
Mechanism for diversifying (inclusion of experts from impacted
and underrepresented communities) the pool of people of color
professionals trained in energy and environmental health
fields, scientific advisors, and peer review panelists on
policy studies and health research grants; and
Recommendations on interagency cooperation related to
research needs of at-risk populations and resource "targeting"
that builds on strengths of existing agency mandates and
directives.
At present, the conference is jointly sponsored by the National
Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the
Department of Energy (DOE). For example, NIEHS has allocated over
$150,000, EPA $100,000, and DOE Office of Economic Impact and
Diversity/Argonne $10,000, in addition to important technical
support, toward this conference.
We appreciate the financial resources provided by DOE's Office of
Economic Impact and Diversity. However, we feel that this level of
financial commitment is not commensurate with the problems
addressed, DOE's overall budget, and financial commitment of the
other lead federal agencies (i.e., NIEHS and EPA). Thus, we are
requesting that other DOE offices, such as those for Environmental
Restoration and Waste Management, Health, etc. provide additional
support to the upcoming health conference.
We feel that the participation of DOE as an equal partner in
planning, developing, and implementing a research agenda to
eliminate environmental injustices is important to assuring that
all appropriate Federal agencies are a part of what we believe will
be a milestone in the progress of the environmental justice
movement. NIEHS is the lead agency for coordinating the planning
of this research conference, and we know that you will be hearing
directly from Dr. Ken Olden, NIEHS Director, with a request to join
in your support. Again, we urge you to participate. We would
appreciate hearing from your office in follow-up to this letter;
please contact Dr. Robert D. Bullard at (310) 825-7403.
If there are any question re DOE's involvement to date, please call
Secretary Hazel O'Leary
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Ms. Georgia Johnson U.S. DOE - Office of Economic Impact and
Diversity at (202) 586-1593.
We thank you in advance for your support and look forward to
working with your Department on this most important issue.
Sincerely,
Dr. Robert D. Bullard
Professor
Dr. Bunyan Bryant
School of Natural of Natural Resources
University of Michigan
Dr. Beverly Wright
Center for Environmental Programs
Xavier University
Mr. Charles Lee
Commission for Racial Justice
United Church of Christ
Mr. Delane Garner
Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Janet Phoenix
National Safety Council/National Lead Information Center
Washington, DC
Ms. Marjorie Moore
Environmental Health Center
Hunter College
Ms. Rose Marie Augustine
Tucsonian for A Clean Environment
Tucson, AZ
CC:
Katherine McGinty
Deputy Director to the President
Office on Environmental Policy
Congressman Louis Stokes
U.S. House of Representatives
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
NAACP
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Kansas Geological Survey
1930 Constant Avenue--Campus West
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66047
Phone: (913) 864-3965
FAX: (913) 864-5317
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WHITE HOUSE OFFICE ON
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COMMENTS: Jachie - this is what I'm calling
about. Pam has left & so I'm trying
to wrap up a few things for her. Let
me know your thoughts on HUD
involvement. They! Trey
Hope everything
is going well.
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WASHINGTON, DC 20501
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 24, 1993
MEMORANDUM FOR JACQUIE LAWING, Deputy Ass't Secretary, HUD
FROM:
PAM MCELWEE, Special Ass't, Office on
Environmental Policy
RE:
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Sorry to catch you at a bad time today. Katie and I wanted
to ask you if HUD might be interested in taking a lead role in an
initiative our office is putting together.
Given your work on community empowerment and the interest
HUD had in participating in the President's Sustainable
Development Council, we thought HUD might want to play a large
part of a new task force we are setting up. We are going to have
the President sign an executive order on environmental justice as
an attempt to remedy the disproportionate environmental impacts
that have fallen on disadvantaged and minority communities. As
part of this executive order, we plan to establish an interagency
working group to advise federal agencies on how to incorporate
environmental justice concerns into their planning, programs and
enforcement authority.
EPA and Justice have already expressed interest in co-
chairing the working group. Would HUD be interested in
participating as a third co-chair? While this executive order
relates specifically to environmental impacts, bringing community
empowerment and economic redevelopment into the picture would be
very powerful.
The workload would be variable. EPA has indicated they are
willing to shoulder most of it in terms of staff resources.
HUD's involvement would entail coordinating with the other co-
chairs on meetings and strategies for the working group.
I've enclosed the executive order we are working on with
some possible language, if HUD is interested in the co-
chairmanship. We held an interagency meeting on the executive
order in late July, which Bruce Katz attended, so please share
this idea with him as well.
Let me know if you have questions. I can be reached at 456-
6224. Thanks for your assistance in this matter.
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EXECUTIVE ORDER
FEDERAL ACTIONS TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN MINORITY AND
LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES
WHEREAS, all communities and all persons across this nation
are entitled to a safe and healthful environment;
WHEREAS, studies have shown that environmental hazards have
had a disproportionate impact on minority and low income
communities;
WHEREAS, environmental hazards shall be managed and
controlled, and where appropriate, eliminated, so that all
communities, including minority and low income communities,
receive environmental protection;
WHEREAS, environmental and civil rights statutes provide
opportunities to address environmental hazards in communities
disproportionately impacted and the Federal government has the
responsibility to equally enforce these laws;
WHEREAS, the federal government should lead in the effort to
improve the environmental quality of life for all Americans,
including minority and low-income Americans, by ensuring that the
management of its facilities, the establishment of its policies,
and the planning and implementation of its actions promote
environmental protection for all;
WHEREAS, the federal government should identify potentially
disproportionate adverse impacts on minority and low-income
communities from Federal Activities, actions, programs, and
policies; projects funded by Agencies and Departments ; and
private acts authorized by Federal permits;
WHEREAS, each Federal Agency should make environmental
justice a high priority in all relevant programs by incorporating
environmental justice into short and long term planning processes
such as regulatory and policy making activities, enforcement,
data collection, data analysis, education and outreach,
communications practices, employment, job training, economic
development, pollution prevention, and siting of projects and
facilities;
WHEREAS, each Federal Agency, in the implementation of its
policies, should ensure that minority and low income communities
have adequate access to public information and key public
planning decisions;
WHEREAS, each Federal Agency should promote state Agency,
Tribal, local and non-federal implementation of environmental
justice and to that end should encourage, and where appropriate
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require, States, Tribes, local Agencies and other non-federal
agencies to review delegated programs, Federally funded programs,
and implementation of permitting programs to reflect
environmental justice.
AND IN ORDER TO:
Ensure that all federal agencies and departments conduct
their activities so that environmental hazards do not place
minority and low income communities at disproportionate risk;
Identify and implement methods by which Federal permitting,
granting, monitoring and enforcement processes will reduce any
disproportionate concentration of environmental hazards in
minority and low income communities;
Ensure that Federal health or environmental activities do
not have a discriminatory effect based on race, color or national
origin.
Require that all federal agencies identify the economic and
social impacts of major Federal Actions significantly affecting
the quality of the environment, including impacts on minority and
low income communities, in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. $$ 4321-4370b, and
other statutes relating to health and the environment.
Require that any inequities or adverse social impacts of
major federal actions that were identified in the environmental
analysis taken under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42
U.S.C. §§ 4321-4307b, to the extent feasible, be remedied in the
final plans for such actions.
Improve federal research and data collection efforts on
health and the environment to ensure that such efforts consider
any disproportionate and adverse impact of environmental hazards
on minority and low income communities; and
Involve minority and low income communities in the decision
making process relating to Federal activities affecting health or
the environment and make public information accessible to these
communities;
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as
President of the United States by the Constitution and statutes
of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
Section 1-1. Implementation
1-101.
Federal Mandate
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It is a Federal priority for each Federal Agency to
eliminate any disproportionate risks from environmental hazards
borne by minority and low income communities.
1-102.
Federal Strategy
Each Federal Agency will make achieving environmental
justice part of its mission.
(a) In order to achieve environmental justice, each Federal
Agency shall add to its Administrative regulations a regulation
to the following effect:
The Agency intends to conduct all planning and programs
affecting health or the environment, administer, interpret
and enforce all regulations, and permit, site and operate
all facilities in a manner that seeks to address the
disproportionately high exposure of minority and low-income
communities to environmental hazards.
(b) Each Federal Agency shall, within six months of this Order,
certify to the Working Group, (see $ 2-201 infra) that it has
issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to assure that the Federal
environmental justice mandate extends to agency programs and
regulations to the extent permitted by law. Such certification
shall include the schedule for issuance of the final regulation.
(c) Additionally, within nine months of this order, each Federal
Agency shall provide the Working Group (see $ 2-201 infra.) with
a preliminary strategy for addressing environmental justice,
which includes a list of its planning processes, programs,
activities and policies related to health or the environment,
including facility siting or permitting, where revisions can be
undertaken to reflect environmental justice and to expeditiously
reduce the disproportionate exposure of minority and low-income
communities to environmental hazards. Such a strategy also
applies to the implementation and enforcement of Federal
environmental statutes to reflect environmental justice.
(d) Each Federal Agency shall implement its programs,
activities, and policies related to health or the environment in
a manner consistent with any recommendations made by the Working
Group and consistent with Federal law.
1-103.
Nondiscrimination Responsibilities
(a) Each Federal Agency shall conduct any Federal program or
activity or any Federal Action that affects human health or the
environment in a manner that assures that such programs, actions
or activities do not have the effect of excluding persons
(including their communities) from participation in, denying them
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the benefits of, or subjecting them to discrimination because of
their race, color or national origin.
(b) Each Federal Agency that extends Federal financial
assistance is obligated under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d et. seq. to ensure and that all
Federally assisted programs or activities that affect, or have
the potential to affect, human health or the environment do not
directly or through contractual or other arrangements use
criteria, methods or practices that have the effect of excluding
persons (including their communities) from participation in,
denying them the benefits of, or subjecting them to,
discrimination because of their race, color or national origin.
(c) Each Federal Agency shall require assurances and compliance
reports from each nonfederal agency or entity that it is
responsible for overseeing or reviewing. Such assurances and
reports shall state that the programs, implementation plans, or
other activities delegated to or implemented by the nonfederal
agency or entity shall comply with the requirements of section 1-
103 (a) of this order.
(d) Each Federal Agency shall take necessary actions, including
but not limited to, on-site monitoring and evaluation, to ensure
that each nonfederal agency or entity that it is responsible for
overseeing or reviewing is complying with the requirements of
section 1-103 (a-c) of this Order in programs, implementation
plans, or other actions.
1-104,
Responsibilities under National Environmental Policy
Act
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations 40
C.F.R. § 1508.14 define the human environment as the natural and
physical environment and the relationship of people with that
environment.
(a) When required by the National Environmental Policy Act 42
U.S.C. $§ 4321 et. seg., each Federal Agency shall analyze the
social and economic impacts of major Federal actions that
significantly affect the human environment.
(b) Each Federal Agency is directed to implement new and
innovative ways of including community input in the NEPA process,
including identifying potential effects and mitigation measures
in consultation with the affected communities and improving the
accessibility of meetings, crucial documents and notices. Each
Agency should put priority on expediting Freedom of Information
Act requests and on making available acceptable, pertinent, and
clear public documents relating to the NEPA process.
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(c) In order to assist affected communities, and in
collaboration with them where feasible, mitigation measures
outlined or analyzed in an environmental assessment (EA), and
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or Record of Decision (ROD)
by each Federal Agency shall attempt to ameliorate significant
and adverse social and economic effects of the proposed action on
minority and low income communities.
(d) EPA, when reviewing environmental impacts under Section 309
of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. $ 7609, is directed to assure
that social and economic impacts on minority and low income
communities are analyzed.
(e) Within 8 months of this Order, the Agency responsible for
oversight of the NEPA shall issue specific additional guidance to
Federal Agencies on how to address social and economic impacts
within the NEPA process.
1-105.
Data Collection, Research, and Analysis
Each Federal Agency, whenever feasible, shall consider the
needs and concerns of minority and low income communities in
research, data collection and analysis processes.
(a) Environmental health research, whenever feasible, shall
include different segments of the population in epidemiological
and clinical studies, including disaggregated sectors at
disproportionate risk from environmental hazards, such as the
young, elderly, minorities and low income communities, workers
exposed to environmental hazards. and persons who are exposed to
multiple environmental hazards.
(b) Whenever feasible, environmental health studies shall
include multiple and cumulative exposures.
(c) Where appropriate, each Federal Agency shall establish,
maintain, and analyze information which provides an objective
basis for assessment of risks by income, race, ethnicity,
occupation and national origin by collecting the appropriate
demographic data and health information to assess the risk from
environmental hazards. Efforts should be made to use existing
demographic data to avoid duplication and inconsistency.
(d) Each Federal Agency shall make every effort to share
information and eliminate unnecessary duplication of efforts
through cooperative agreements and use of existing data systems
among agencies and with States, Tribes and local governments.
(e) Each Federal Agency, whenever feasible, shall collect,
maintain, and analyze information on the social and economic
status of communities surrounding Federal facilities that, if not
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a federal facility, would be subject to the reporting
requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-
Know Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 11001-11050. In addition, each Federal
Agency, when feasible, shall identify health information relating
to the community surrounding such facilities. Such information
shall be made available to the public, unless prohibited by law.
(f) Each Federal Agency, whenever feasible, shall collect,
maintain and analyze information on the social and economic
status of communities surrounding facilities or sites when such
facilities or sites become the subject of Federal environmental
administrative or judicial actions. Where appropriate, each
Federal Agency shall identify health information relating to the
community surrounding such facilities. Such information shall be
made available to the public, unless prohibited by law.
1-106.
Access to Public Information
(a) Each Federal Agency shall ensure that minority and low-
income communities have adequate access to public information
relating to health or environmental planning, regulations, and
enforcement as required under the Freedom of Information Act, 5
U.S.C. S 552, the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552b, and the
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to Know Act 42, U.S.C. §
11044.
(b) Where appropriate, crucial public documents, notices and
hearings shall be translated for limited-English speakers.
(c) Each Federal Agency shall work to ensure that public
documents, notices and hearings relating to health or the
environment are concise and clear, and where feasible, non-
technical.
1-107,
Funding Responsibilities.
Each Federal Agency shall place high priority on obtaining
funding and resources needed for implementing all aspects of this
order, including the environmental justice strategies and
assessments required by this Order, by identifying, requesting,
and allocating funds through line-item or direct funding
requests. Federal agencies shall make such requests as required
through agency budget requests as outlined in Office of
Management and Budget Circulars A-106 and A-11 respectively.
Section 2-2 Agency Coordination
2-201,
Creation of Interagency Working Group on Environmental
Justice
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(a) Within three months of this Order, the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Attorney General, and the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or their designees,
will convene and conduct an interagency Federal Working Group on
Environmental Justice, hereafter referred to as the Working
Group. The Working Group will be composed of at least one senior
official designated by the head of each appropriate Federal
agency that conducts environmental programs or activities or
undertakes actions with potential to affect human health or the
environment. It shall also include agencies whose expertise in
addressing environmental justice would be important to the
Working Group, including, but not limited to, the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights. The Working Group shall report Federal
environmental justice activities to the President through the
White House Office on Environmental Policy, which shall also sit
on the Task Force.
(b) The Working Group, or subcommittees thereof, shall be
responsible for coordinating, developing and ensuring the
implementation of agreements, policies and practices that promote
environmental justice with regard to past, present or future
agency actions.
(c) The Working Group shall --
(1) define terms used in this Order;
(2) recommend comprehensive strategies to identify
environmental justice issues within federal agencies;
(3) recommend comprehensive strategies to reduce or
eliminate the disproportionate impact of environmental
hazards on minority and low-income communities;
(4) monitor and advise each Federal Agency on its strategy
to ensure that the administration, interpretation and
enforcement of such programs, activities and policies are
undertaken in a manner that expeditiously reduces the
disproportionate exposure of minority and low-income
communities to environmental hazards.
(5) serve as a mechanism through which agencies shall
coordinate research by, and stimulate cooperation between,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of
Health and Human Services, and such other agencies as may be
appropriate to determine the health effects of environmental
hazards on all communities, including minority and low-
income communities.
(6) seek to identify budget and funding concerns that
affect multiple agencies and can be coordinated.
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(7) develop model projects that demonstrate cooperation
between Federal Agencies and that promote the goals of this
Order.
2-202.
Reports to the Working Group.
(a) Within nine months of this order, each Federal Agency shall
provide the Working Group with a preliminary strategy for
addressing environmental justice, which includes a list of its
programs, activities and policies related to health or the
environment, including facility siting or permitting, where
revisions will be undertaken to reflect environmental justice.
(b) Within eighteen months of this order, each Federal Agency
shall report to the Working Group on its efforts to implement its
environmental justice initiatives and strategy under subsection
(a). The Working Group may require additional periodic reports
as it deems appropriate.
2-203.
Public Involvement
(a) The public may submit to federal agencies or the Working
Group recommendations relating to the incorporation of
environmental justice principles into agency programs or
activities. Upon receipt of such recommendations, each Federal
Agency shall provide the Working Group with a copy of such
recommendations. Likewise, when such recommendations are
received by the Working Group, the Working Group shall forward
such recommendations to the appropriate Federal agency. In
addition, each Federal Agency shall publicize the right of the
public to submit to each Federal Agency recommendations relating
to environmental justice.
(b) The Working Group shall review such recommendations and
consult with the appropriate Federal Agency to ensure that such
recommendations receive appropriate review.
Section 3-3. Department of Justice Obligations.
The public and federal agencies may submit to the Department
of Justice requests that the Department present the views of the
United States in particular judicial, administrative, or other
proceedings in which issues implicating the requirements of this
Order are presented and the United States or a Federal Agency is
not a party. Consistent with its responsibilities, the
Department shall review and consider such requests. After
consultation with any potentially affected Federal Agency, and
the Working Group if necessary, the Department may present the
view of the United States where it deems such participation is in
the interest of the United States.
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Section 4-4. General Provisions.
4-401.
The head of each Federal Agency shall be responsible
for ensuring that all necessary actions are taken to comply with
this Order. To that end, each Federal Agency shall conduct
internal reviews and audits, and take such other steps, as may be
necessary to monitor compliance with this Order.
4-402.
Executive Order No. 12250 of November 2, 1980,
requiring consistent and effective implementation of various laws
prohibiting discriminatory practices in programs receiving
Federal financial assistance, shall remain in effect.
4-403.
Existing agency regulations implementing the
nondiscrimination policies covered by this Order shall continue
in effect until revoked or modified.
4-404.
Any federal agency may petition the Working Group for
exempt status under this Order and such petition may be granted
upon a showing to the Working Group that the petitioning agency
does not conduct any programs or activities that affect human
health or the environment. Where appropriate, the Working Group
may declare an agency to be partially exempt from the
requirements of this Order.
4-405
Any federal Agency may petition the Working Group for
additional time for in which to comply with the requirements in
this Order and such petition may be granted upon a showing to the
Working Group that the petitioning agency has a reasonable basis
for such an extension.
4-405
Each Federal Agency responsibility set forth under this
Order shall apply equally to Native American programs. The
Department of the Interior, in coordination with the Working
Group, shall, after consultation with tribal leaders, coordinate
environmental justice programs and reforms which target Native
American communities.
4-406.
Nothing in this Order shall create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by any
person against the United States, its Agencies, or its officers.
Nothing in this Order may be construed to confer a defense in any
proceeding involving a violation of any law or regulation.
Nothing in this Order shall be construed to create any right of
review of any agency's exercise of its discretionary authority.
Kansas Geological Survey
1930 Constant Avenue--Campus West
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66047
Phone: (913) 864-3965
FAX: (913) 864-5317
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As we discussed -- - can you get
to Jacquie?? The.
Pan.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 24, 1993
MEMORANDUM FOR JACQUIE LAWING, Deputy Ass't Secretary, HUD
FROM:
PAM MCELWEE, Special Ass't, Office on
Environmental Policy
RE:
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Sorry to catch you at a bad time today. Katie and I wanted
to ask you if HUD might be interested in taking a lead role in an
initiative our office is putting together.
Given your work on community empowerment and the interest
HUD had in participating in the President's Sustainable
Development Council, we thought HUD might want to play a large
part of a new task force we are setting up. We are going to have
the President sign an executive order on environmental justice as
an attempt to remedy the disproportionate environmental impacts
that have fallen on disadvantaged and minority communities. As
part of this executive order, we plan to establish an interagency
working group to advise federal agencies on how to incorporate
environmental justice concerns into their planning, programs and
enforcement authority.
EPA and Justice have already expressed interest in co-
chairing the working group. Would HUD be interested in
participating as a third co-chair? While this executive order
relates specifically to environmental impacts, bringing community
empowerment and economic redevelopment into the picture would be
very powerful.
The workload would be variable. EPA has indicated they are
willing to shoulder most of it in terms of staff resources.
HUD's involvement would entail coordinating with the other co-
chairs on meetings and strategies for the working group.
I've enclosed the executive order we are working on with
some possible language, if HUD is interested in the co-
chairmanship. We held an interagency meeting on the executive
order in late July, which Bruce Katz attended, so please share
this idea with him as well.
Let me know if you have questions. I can be reached at 456-
6224. Thanks for your assistance in this matter.
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