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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Request for Comments Under
Executive Order 12898
Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Policy, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor
(DOL or Department) is committed to
Environmental Justice (EJ). President
Obama has renewed agencies’
environmental justice planning by
reinvigorating Executive Order 12898
(EO 12898), which tasked several
Federal agencies with making
environmental justice part of their
mission. The agencies were directed to
do so by identifying and addressing, as
appropriate, the disproportionately high
and adverse human health or
environmental effects of their programs,
policies, and activities on minority and
low-income populations. In August
2011, agencies listed in EO 12898
signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (EJ MOU), which, among
other things, commits agencies to
develop a final Environmental Justice
Strategy. The purpose of this notice is
to invite public comment on how the
Department of Labor can address
environmental justice through its
programs, policies, regulations or
reporting requirements.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before November 18, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
through https://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
All comments will be available for
public inspection at https://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E.
Christi Cunningham, Associate
Assistant Secretary for Regulatory
Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S–
2312, Washington, DC 20210,
cunningham.christi@dol.gov, (202) 693–
5959; (this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with hearing impairments
may call 1–800–877–8339 (TTY/TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive
Order 12898 did not create a new legal
remedy. As an internal management tool
of the Executive Branch, the Order
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directs Federal agencies to put in place
procedures and take actions to make
achieving environmental justice part of
their basic mission. Former President
Clinton explained that Federal agencies
have the responsibility to promote
nondiscrimination in Federal programs
substantially affecting human health
and the environment. Accordingly,
agencies must implement actions to
identify and address disproportionately
high and adverse human health or
environmental effects of their programs,
policies, and activities on minority and
low-income populations and federallyrecognized Indian tribes. The
Department views Environmental
Justice from a workplace training, health
and safety perspective. The Department
is developing an Environmental Justice
Strategy that is in line with the mission
of the Department and Secretary Solis’
vision for the future: good jobs for
everyone. The vision of good jobs for
everyone includes ensuring that
workplaces are safe and healthy;
helping workers who are in low-wage
jobs or out of the labor market find a
path into middle-class jobs; and helping
middle-class families remain in the
middle-class. The Department’s
Environmental Justice Strategy focuses
on agencies directly involved with
worker training (the Employment
Training Administration (ETA)), and
health and safety issues (the
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) and the Mine
Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA)).
Request for Comments: As part of our
development of the DOL Environmental
Justice Strategy, we are soliciting public
comment. Your input is important to us.
Please provide responses that are
supported with specific examples and
data, where possible.
This request for public input will
inform development of the Department
of Labor’s draft Environmental Justice
Strategy. To facilitate receipt of the
information, the Department has created
an Internet portal specifically designed
to capture your input and suggestions,
https://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
The portal contains a series of questions
designed to gather information on how
DOL can best meet the requirements of
the Executive Order. The portal is open
to receive comments through November
18, 2011.
Questions for the Public: The
Department of Labor intends the
questions on the portal to represent a
starting point for discussion of the draft
Strategic Plan. The questions are meant
to initiate public dialogue, and are not
intended to restrict the issues that may
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be raised or addressed. The questions
were developed with the intent to probe
a range of areas.
When addressing these questions, the
Department of Labor requests that
commenters identify with specificity the
program, policy, regulation or reporting
requirement at issue, providing legal
citation(s) where available. The
Department also requests that
submitters provide, in as much detail as
possible, an explanation of why a
program, policy, regulation or reporting
requirement should be modified,
streamlined, expanded, or repealed as
well as specific suggestions of ways the
Department of Labor can better achieve
environmental justice. Whenever
possible, please provide empirical
evidence and data to support your
response.
The Department of Labor is issuing
this request solely to seek useful
information as it develops its plan.
While responses to this request do not
bind the Department of Labor to any
further actions related to the response,
all submissions will be made available
to the public on https://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
Authority: Executive Order 12898,
‘‘Federal Actions to Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and LowIncome Populations,’’ February 11, 1994. 59
FR 7629 (Feb. 16, 1994).
Dated: October 12, 2011.
William E. Spriggs,
Assistant Secretary for Policy.
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Occupational Safety and Health
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ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirement
contained in the Standard on
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The purpose of this requirement is to
ensure that workers have been trained
as required by the Standard to prevent
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Request for Comments Under Executive Order 12898
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Policy, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL or Department) is committed to
Environmental Justice (EJ). President Obama has renewed agencies'
environmental justice planning by reinvigorating Executive Order 12898
(EO 12898), which tasked several Federal agencies with making
environmental justice part of their mission. The agencies were directed
to do so by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, the
disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental
effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority and
low-income populations. In August 2011, agencies listed in EO 12898
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (EJ MOU), which, among other
things, commits agencies to develop a final Environmental Justice
Strategy. The purpose of this notice is to invite public comment on how
the Department of Labor can address environmental justice through its
programs, policies, regulations or reporting requirements.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 18, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments through https://dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
All comments will be available for public inspection at https://dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E. Christi Cunningham, Associate
Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Policy, U.S. Department of Labor,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S-2312, Washington, DC 20210,
cunningham.christi@dol.gov, (202) 693-5959; (this is not a toll-free
number). Individuals with hearing impairments may call 1-800-877-8339
(TTY/TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive Order 12898 did not create a new
legal remedy. As an internal management tool of the Executive Branch,
the Order directs Federal agencies to put in place procedures and take
actions to make achieving environmental justice part of their basic
mission. Former President Clinton explained that Federal agencies have
the responsibility to promote nondiscrimination in Federal programs
substantially affecting human health and the environment. Accordingly,
agencies must implement actions to identify and address
disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental
effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority and
low-income populations and federally-recognized Indian tribes. The
Department views Environmental Justice from a workplace training,
health and safety perspective. The Department is developing an
Environmental Justice Strategy that is in line with the mission of the
Department and Secretary Solis' vision for the future: good jobs for
everyone. The vision of good jobs for everyone includes ensuring that
workplaces are safe and healthy; helping workers who are in low-wage
jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle-class jobs; and
helping middle-class families remain in the middle-class. The
Department's Environmental Justice Strategy focuses on agencies
directly involved with worker training (the Employment Training
Administration (ETA)), and health and safety issues (the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA)).
Request for Comments: As part of our development of the DOL
Environmental Justice Strategy, we are soliciting public comment. Your
input is important to us. Please provide responses that are supported
with specific examples and data, where possible.
This request for public input will inform development of the
Department of Labor's draft Environmental Justice Strategy. To
facilitate receipt of the information, the Department has created an
Internet portal specifically designed to capture your input and
suggestions, https://dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/. The portal
contains a series of questions designed to gather information on how
DOL can best meet the requirements of the Executive Order. The portal
is open to receive comments through November 18, 2011.
Questions for the Public: The Department of Labor intends the
questions on the portal to represent a starting point for discussion of
the draft Strategic Plan. The questions are meant to initiate public
dialogue, and are not intended to restrict the issues that may be
raised or addressed. The questions were developed with the intent to
probe a range of areas.
When addressing these questions, the Department of Labor requests
that commenters identify with specificity the program, policy,
regulation or reporting requirement at issue, providing legal
citation(s) where available. The Department also requests that
submitters provide, in as much detail as possible, an explanation of
why a program, policy, regulation or reporting requirement should be
modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed as well as specific
suggestions of ways the Department of Labor can better achieve
environmental justice. Whenever possible, please provide empirical
evidence and data to support your response.
The Department of Labor is issuing this request solely to seek
useful information as it develops its plan. While responses to this
request do not bind the Department of Labor to any further actions
related to the response, all submissions will be made available to the
public on https://dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
Authority: Executive Order 12898, ``Federal Actions to Address
Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations,'' February 11, 1994. 59 FR 7629 (Feb. 16, 1994).
Dated: October 12, 2011.
William E. Spriggs,
Assistant Secretary for Policy.
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