How should our public involvement plan relate to EJ?
It is helpful to have a public involvement plan as an appendix to the environmental documentation to enable reviewers to be able to determine if public involvement was inclusive. Depending on how you are incorporating your EJ analysis and the public involvement plan into the environmental document, provide: • A brief summary of the project’s outreach strategies to any EJ populations • A summary of results of outreach efforts to EJ populations, and • Cross referenced sections of the document where this information can be found You need to summarize any specific outreach done for EJ populations in the environmental document. Remember that often the community can help to define whether an effect is adverse or not, the degree of adversity and give ideas for mitigation. If listened to early in the process, they may have creative ideas that will help create a better project. This can provide valuable information for your EJ analysis and should be summarized in the environmental document. If
