Regulatory Framework
Requires the “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, particularly minority and low-income populations, in the environmental decision-making process.”
What is Executive Order (EO) 12898?
These materials are provided by the Environmental Planner to project core team members for a 30 day review, with a two week second review period to confirm comments are addressed.
What are EIS/EA and EJ analysis review timelines?
Black, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American, American Indian and Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
How does FHWA and DOT define minority groups?
These are tools that can be used to obtain information about communities within the project area
What is the US Census Bureau Data and Public Involvement?
For NEPA documents, this is where the determination of EJ impacts should be documented.
What is the Environmental Consequences section of the NEPA document?
Each agency must identify and address this, as appropriate, as part of their programs, policies, and activities
What is disproportionately high and adverse human and environmental effects?
These materials are provided for review by the Environmental Planner for a 10 day period to project core team members
What are the Individual CE documents and associated items, such as design plans, EJ analysis, technical reports, public involvement materials?
A population whose median household income is at or below the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) poverty guidelines
What is FHWA and DOT definition of low income population?
These items are required for EJ analysis documentation
What are data tables, maps, and public involvement discussion?
This group includes Communications, Multimodal Planning Division, Project Management, Civil Rights Office, appropriate Districts, Tribes, project-specific stakeholders, consultants
What are the core project team members?
Both of these orders provide the fundamental regulatory framework for ADOT to ensure compliance with EJ
What are United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Order 5610.2C and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Order 6640.23A?
These materials are provided by Environmental Planner to project core team members for a two week period (or four week period for complex projects).
What is EA or EIS Re-Evaluation documents and associated technical reports, design plans, original NEPA documents, etc?
ACS
What is the acronym for American Community Survey?
EJ analysis requires the consideration of these three types of impacts
What are direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts?
ADOT foundational resource for standard public involvement procedures
What is the ADOT Public Involvement Plan?
This provides ADOT the legal authority to develop and approve environmental documents, including EJ analysis
What is 23 USC 326 / “326 MOU” and the Surface Transportation Project Delivery Program 23 USC 327 / “327 MOU”?
The scope of the project guides the initial EJ considerations for this type of NEPA document.
What are Categorical Exclusions (CE)'s?
When looking at data collection, this is the smaller geographical unit of data that incorporates down to the level of communities and subdivisions
What is Census Block Groups?
This is an adverse effect that is is predominantly borne by a minority or low income population; or will be suffered by a minority and/or low income population and is appreciably more severe or greater in magnitude than the adverse effect that will be suffered by the non-EJ population.
What is disproportionately high and adverse impacts to EJ populations?
These two boundaries should be discussed as part of scoping to confirm consistency for analysis and overall project
What are the EJ analysis and public involvement boundaries?
This law has some overlap with EJ, but is separate in it's regulatory requirements
What is Title VI under the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This is completed if there is a question on impacts for a CE level projects
What is the EJ Screening Checklist?
When looking at data collection, this is the larger geographical unit that can incorporate larger regions like cities or towns
What is the Census Tract?
This is a tool that is used in EJ analysis as needed if there is a need to compare impacts for a segment of project area
What is a reference community?
This process should be undertaken with the project core team if if disproportionately high and adverse impacts are determined
What is the process of avoiding or minimizing impacts?