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Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis
Citation:
Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2016.
Impact/Purpose:
The purpose of the EJTG is ensure consistency, quality, and transparency in considering environmental justice, while allowing for flexibility needed across different regulatory actions.
Description:
The Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis (also referred to as the Environmental Justice Technical Guidance or EJTG) is intended for use by Agency analysts, including risk assessors, economists, and other analytic staff that conduct analyses to evaluate EJ concerns in the context of regulatory actions. Senior EPA managers and decision makers also may find this document useful to understand analytic expectations and to ensure that EJ concerns are appropriately considered in the development of analyses to support regulatory actions under EPA’s action development process. Specifically, the document outlines approaches and methods to help Agency analysts evaluate EJ concerns. The document provides overarching direction to analysts by outlining a series of questions that will ensure the decision maker has appropriate information about baseline risks across population groups, and how those risks are distributed under the options being considered. In addition, the document provides a set of recommendations and requirements as well as best practices for use in analyzing and reporting results from consideration of EJ concerns. These principles will help ensure consistency, quality, and transparency across regulatory actions, while allowing for flexibility needed across different regulatory actions.
URLs/Downloads:
Peer Review Plan (PDF, NA pp, 33 KB, about PDF)SAB report on draft EJTG (PDF, NA pp, 504 KB, about PDF)
Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis (PDF, NA pp, 2707 KB, about PDF)
EJTG response to comments (PDF, NA pp, 108 KB, about PDF)