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has stated a more concrete priority to fulfill its mission of environmental justice in ruralareas.2012 Environmental Justice StrategyIn compliance with the August 2011 Memorandum of Understanding on EnvironmentalJustice and Executive Order 12898 (MOU), USDA released a final EnvironmentalJustice Strategic Plan: 2012 to 2014 on February 7, 2012 (Strategic Plan), whichidentifies new and updated goals and performance measures beyond what USDAidentified in a 1995 EJ strategy it adopted in response to E.O. 12898. In the same week,it also released its first annual implementation progress report (Progress Report), as theMOU also required. The Secretary's message accompanying the Strategic Plandescribed two immediate tasks: 1) each agency within USDA is required to identify apoint of contact for EJ issues, at the Senior Executive Service (SES) level; and 2) eachagency must develop its own EJ strategy prior to April 15, 2012, and beginimplementing it as soon as possible. As of May 2012, it did not appear that suchstrategies had been made public, although sub-agencies provided internal reports to theUSDA's EJ steering committee on April 9, 2012, according to Holmes. The Secretary'smessage contained strong language that, "Given that USDA programs touch almostevery American every day, the Department is well positioned to help in [theenvironmental justice] effort." USDA has determined that it can achieve therequirements of the Executive Order by integrating EJ into its programs, rather thanimplementing new and costly programs. The agency took this same approach in an EJstrategy it adopted in 1995. In some areas, such as agricultural chemicals and effects tomigrant workers, USDA reviews its practices to identify potential disproportionate,adverse impacts on EJ communities, according to Blake Velde, Senior EnvironmentalScientist with the USDA Hazardous Materials Management Division.Generally, USDA believes its existing technical and financial assistance programsprovide solutions to environmental inequity, such as its initiatives on education, fooddeserts, and economic development in impacted communities, and ensuring access toenvironmental benefits is the focus of USDA's EJ efforts.Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) Under Secretary Harris Sherman is thepolitical appointee generally responsible for USDA's EJ strategy, with Patrick Holmes, asenior staffer to the Under Secretary, playing a coordinating role. Although USDA hasno staff dedicated solely to EJ, its sub-agencies have many offices dedicated to civilrights compliance, outreach and communication and environmental review whoseresponsibilities incorporate EJ issues. The Strategic Plan was developed with the inputof an Environmental Justice Working Group, made up of staff and leadershiprepresenting the USDA's seven mission areas and the SES-level contacts, which wereappointed in early 2012, serve as a steering committee for the agency's efforts. TheStrategic Plan is organized according to six goals, which were purposefully left broad,and lists specific objectives and agency performance measures under each goal. Thedetails and specific implementation of many of these programs and the performancemeasures are left to the departments and sub-agencies to develop. The six goals are to:Page 96 of 161
Ensure USDA programs provide opportunities for EJ communities.Provide targeted training and capacity-building to EJ communities.Expand public participation in agency activities, to enhance the "credibility andpublic trust"• of the USDA.Ensure USDA's activities do not have disproportionately high and adverse humanhealth impacts, and resolve environmental justice issues and complaints.Increase the awareness of EJ issues among USDA employees.Update and/or Develop Departmental and Agency Regulations on EJ.The Strategic Plan also lists existing programs that either currently support the goal, orare expected to in the future.According to Holmes, some of the challenges of the Strategic Plan process havestemmed from the diverse programs and missions that the agency serves, limitations onstaff time, and budgets.Page 97 of 161
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