Notice2023-25273
Release of Achieving Health and Environmental Protection Through EPA's Meaningful Involvement Policy
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Published
November 16, 2023
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of and soliciting comment on a draft policy that updates the EPA's 2003 Public Involvement Policy. The revised draft policy promotes an EPA-wide approach to meaningful involvement that can be tailored for program and regional needs and outlines practices that EPA staff can use as they design and provide opportunities for meaningful involvement.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 220 (Thursday, November 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78747-78748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-25273]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OEJECR-2023-0326; FRL 10605-01-OA]
Release of Achieving Health and Environmental Protection Through
EPA's Meaningful Involvement Policy
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Draft policy; notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the
availability of and soliciting comment on a draft policy that updates
the EPA's 2003 Public Involvement Policy. The revised draft policy
promotes an EPA-wide approach to meaningful involvement that can be
tailored for program and regional needs and outlines practices that EPA
staff can use as they design and provide opportunities for meaningful
involvement.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OEJECR-2023-0326, by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Agency Website: <a href="https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/epas-meaningful-involvement-policy">https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/epas-meaningful-involvement-policy</a>. Follow the online instructions for
submitting comments.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d598b0b4bbbcbbb2b3a0b99cbba3bab9a3b0b8b0bba185bab9bcb6ac95b0a5b4fbb2baa3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ad7fffbf4f3f4fdfceff6d3f4ecf5f6ecfff7fff4eecaf5f6f3f9e3daffeafbb4fdf5ec">[email protected]</span></a>.
<bullet> Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center, Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20460.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. for this draft policy. Comments received may be posted without
change to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, including any personal
information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stacey Lobatos, Office of
Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (Mail Code 2201A),
Environmental Protection Agency, William Jefferson Clinton Building,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; phone number: 202-
564-8579, email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1f527a7e71767178796a735671697073697a727a716b4f7073767c665f7a6f7e31787069"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="38755d595651565f5e4d5471564e57544e5d555d564c685754515b41785d4859165f574e">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. General Information
A. How can I get copies of the Draft Policy document and other related
information?
You may access this document electronically at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/epas-meaningful-involvement-policy">https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/epas-meaningful-involvement-policy</a> or at <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov">https://www.federalregister.gov</a>. EPA established an official public docket
under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OEJECR-2023-0326 which is accessible
electronically at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> that will also contain
copies of this Federal Register notice. The public docket does not
include CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute.
B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for the EPA?
1. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting
your comments, see Tips for Effective Comments at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>. Please note that once submitted, comments cannot be edited or
removed from the docket. The EPA may publish any comment received to
its public docket. Please also consider the following questions while
drafting comments:
<bullet> How can the EPA's Meaningful Involvement Approach support
meaningful involvement without putting an extra burden on the public,
and communities with environmental justice concerns specifically?
<bullet> How could the adapted Public Participation Spectrum be
enhanced?
<bullet> Are there other examples of meaningful public involvement
that the EPA should consider in this policy?
2. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI information to the EPA through
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a> or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI. In addition to one complete
version of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy
of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI
must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so
marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set
forth in 40 CFR part 2.
Michael S. Regan,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2023-25273 Filed 11-15-23; 8:45 am]
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