Executive Order 12898
What is the Clinton Administration?
Executive Order 12898 established this entity
The Forest Service defines EJ in accordance to this departments regulations
(Bonus 100 points to provide full definition of EJ)
What is the USDA
What is Environmental justice includes the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies
This agency collects social, economic, & demographic info by state, county, tract, or zip code.
What is the Census Bureau?
The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
The reliance on populations of fish and wildlife as a food source
What is subsistence consumption?
The office of Environmnetal Justice is a unit of this agency
These individuals are accountable for identifying and addressing EJ concerns
What is the Forest Service Interdisciplinary Team (and responsible officials)
“A way of conducting business to ensure that all customers throughout the US are made aware of, understand, and have a working knowledge of USFS programs and services.”
What is outreach?
A historical practice that funneled minorities into particular neighborhoods
What is redlining?
The individual responsible for ensuring compliance with the EO
Who is the agency head?
The findings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions EIS
What is racial and economic discrimination played an unacceptable role in the projects planning
Environmental Justice concerns may arise from
What is: impacts on the natural and physical environment; ecological impacts on minority populations, low-income populations and Native American tribes; interrelated social and economic impacts
These populations can skew county-level Census data.
What are prosperous, majority populations?
A concept that addresses the inequitable burdens of climate change on different populations
What is climate justice?
The new EJ office recently established by the EPA
What is the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights?
The main goals of the project steering committee
What are working to inform and involve residents who would not normally have participated in the environmental review process.
Also translating key issues into Spanish for local Hispanic populations
The Three sides of the NEPA Triangle
What is Proposal Development, Environmental Analysis, and Implementation
This is critical throughout the process of identifying potentially undeserved communities.
What is local knowledge?
A type of infrastructure, often lacking in minority communities, that improves the physical, social, and economic well-being of the community
What are green spaces?
The section of the EO related to public participation
What is section 5-5?
This committee developed the Guidelines and Principles for Social Impact Assessment
What is the Interorganizational Committee on Guidelines and Principles for Social Impact Assessment
This should be done even if it is concluded there were no EJ concerns
The five counties included in the pilot project area of interest.
What is Alamosa County, Costilla County, Conejos County, Rio Arriba County, and Taos County?
A polluted location as designated by the CERCLA of 1980
What is a superfund site?