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About This Report
On April 25, 1994, the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) issued the "OSWER Environmental Justice Task Force Draft Final Report." As a result of this report, a major effort was undertaken in EPA's waste programs to address environmental justice concerns. In June 1994, EPA's waste programs developed detailed plans to implement the recommendations of the Task Force Draft Report. Simultaneously, OSWER solicited comments from stakeholders on the Task Force Draft Report, and Headquarters and the Regions began implementing the activities described in the plans. As comments on the Task Force Draft Report were received, OSWER worked to address them in a final report, the "OSWER Environmental Justice Action Agenda." Simultaneously with the release of the Action Agenda, OSWER released the Waste Programs Environmental Justice Accomplishments Report.
This, the second Waste Programs Environmental Justice Accomplishments Report, which updates and documents the progress made throughout the Agency since the original Report, follows the format of the first Report: It is divided into two sections: Cross-cutting Issues, which presents initiatives in areas that have implications for all waste programs, and Program-Specific Issues, which presents initiatives that focus on a particular waste program. Individual entries in each section generally reflect actions taken since March 1995.
The data gathered for this Report show the great extent to which environmental justice concerns have become institutionalized throughout all of the waste programs and in their decision-making processes.
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Waste Programs Environmental Justice Accomplishments Report - June 1997