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The objective of this program is to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to support community engagement and capacity building efforts and activities to facilitate the ability of community members, residents, and organizations to advocate for themselves and take related actions to advance environmental justice efforts to improve the environment, climate, and public health in their communities. EPA relies on communities for on the ground advice, input and expertise to address environmental justice, environmental, climate, and public health issues and the awards under this program will facilitate these efforts. The primary goals of this program are therefore to strengthen the ability of communities, community members/residents, and community organizations to identify, understand and address the environmental justice, environmental, climate, and public health issues and challenges they face, ensure that different perspectives are considered in governmental decision-making processes related to these issues, and enhance the ability of communities and their members to address past, current, and future environmental justice, environmental, climate, and public health challenges to improve their environmental conditions.
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Grantee and partners will support planning, community engagement, and public participation in identifying and understanding local cumulative environment and public health impacts on a wide range of issues including, but not limited to the Clean Air Act, Section 103(b)(3) and 138, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act Section 1442(c)(3), Toxic Substances Control Act Section 10, and others.
• In response to environmental justice concerns, a grantee and partners are undertaking efforts to support community capacity and build local leaders in the form of the Metro East Environmental Justice Academy, the first academy in Illinois and second in Region 5. The EJ Academy is a roughly 10-month long program where participants will cultivate skills to identify environmental challenges and accomplish environmental improvement goals in their communities. The academy encourages collaborative problem-solving with local government, small businesses, academic institutions, and industry to create a shared vision among different stakeholders so that all parts of a community have a voice in addressing local environmental concerns. • Grantee and partners will implement its project, which will support community engagement, participation, and capacity building efforts facilitating the ability of community members, residents, and organizations to advocate for themselves and take actions to provide meaningful input to advance environmental justice to improve the environment, climate, and public health in Houston, Texas. A grantee and partners will conduct public outreach and education around creosote contamination and the Union Pacific Railroad Houston Wood Preserving Works site. The recipient will host a community forum, conduct an educational tour, host five educational workshops, develop community navigators, and distribute educational brochures and fact sheets to the community.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
