AB 71 — Requires the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to conduct an interim study concerning environmental justice. (BDR S-347)

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71–COMMITTEE ON NNATURAL ATURALR RESOURCESESOURCES (O NNB BEHALFEHALF OF THE JOINT NTERIMINTERIM SSTANDING TANDING COMMITTEE ON NNATURAL ATURALR RESOURCESESOURCES ) PREFILEDP REFILED JANUARY 30, 2023 ____________ Referred to Committee on Natural Resources SUMMARY—Requires the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to conduct an interim study concerning environmental justice.

Section 9 of this bill directs the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to conduct an interim study concerning environmental justice.

In conducting the study, section 9 requires cumulativethe environmentalDivision burdens;to identify:

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(2) methods for preventing the increase of the cumulative environmental burdens of such communities;

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The Division may:may contract with a private entity to conduct the study.

(a) Contract with a private entity to conduct the study;

and (b) Coordinate and collaborate with other state agencies and research institutions in this State, as appropriate, in carrying out the study.

IfIn thecarrying Divisionout contractsthe withstudy, a private entity to conduct the studyDivision pursuantshall tocoordinate subsectionand 2, all state agencies must collaborate with thegovernmental privateagencies, entityaffected incommunities, conducting the study,public as necessary, and provideother theinterested privatestakeholders, entityincluding, withwithout anylimitation: information requested by the private entity to such extent as is consistent with their other lawful duties.

(a) Federal, state and local governmental agencies that oversee laws relating to air quality, environmental protection, public health, natural resources and transportation;

(b) Tribal governments;

(c) Research institutions;

(d) Representatives of environmental organizations;

(e) Representatives of the business community;

and (f) Representatives of community organizations, including, without limitation, community organizations of indigent populations and underserved communities.

If the Division contracts with a private entity to conduct the study pursuant to subsection 2, all state agencies must collaborate with the private entity in conducting the study, as necessary, and provide the private entity with any information requested by the - *AB71_R1* – 4 – duties.

entity to such extent as is consistent with their other lawful 5.

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