How Guam is Addressing Environmental Justice
Contents
- How Does Guam Define Environmental Justice and Environmental Justice Communities?
- How Does Guam Consider Environmental Justice in its Substantive Actions?
- How Does Guam Address Environmental Justice in its Procedures?
- Additional Guam Environmental Justice Provisions
- Guam Environmental Justice Contacts
- Where to Find Guam Environmental Justice Laws, Policies, and Tools
(with full citations) All States & Territories
How Does Guam Define Environmental Justice and Environmental Justice Communities?
Environmental Justice Definitions
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Environmental Justice Mapping Tools
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How Does Guam Consider Environmental Justice in its Substantive Actions?
Environmental Justice as a Policy of the Environmental Agency or Across All Agencies
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Consideration of Environmental Justice in Permitting
Executive Order 96-26 titled “Relative to Creating the Application Review Committee to Replace the Development Review committee, and to Streamline the Review Process for the Territorial Land Use Commission/Territorial Seashore Protection Commission/Guam Natural Resources Board” creates the Application Review Committee to review all applications sent to the Department of Land Management. EO 96-26 requires an environmental impact assessment for “[a]ll applications for conditional use, zone change, variance, subdivision approval, golf courses, any proposed developmental action in wetlands, or for development of aquaculture facilities.”
Consideration of Environmental Justice in Enforcement
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Consideration of Environmental Justice in Land Use
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State Environmental Policy Act “Mini-NEPA”
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Dedicated Funding to Environmental Justice Communities
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Consideration of Cumulative Impacts
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Prohibitions on Disparate Impact Discrimination
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Established Environmental Rights
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How Does Guam Address Environmental Justice in its Procedures?
Environmental Justice as Part of Environmental Agency’s Mission
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Environmental Justice as Part of Other Agency’s Mission
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Processes and Procedures (including Title VI)
Non-Discrimination Policy
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Grievance Procedures
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Enhanced Public Participation and Information Access
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Language Access
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Consultation with Indigenous Communities and Tribal Nations
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Governmental Environmental Justice Structures, Positions, and Funding Streams
Environmental Justice Coordinating Agency
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Environmental Justice Coordinator
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Environmental Justice Advisory Board
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Funding for Environmental Justice
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Additional Guam Environmental Justice Provisions
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Guam Environmental Justice Contacts
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Where to Find Guam Environmental Justice Laws, Policies, and Tools
Constitutional Provisions
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Executive Orders
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Legislation and Statutes
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Regulations
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Policies/Guidance
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Mapping Tools
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Other
The Guam Environmental Protection Agency (GEPA) has listed on its website the main chapters of the law which gives the GEPA authority to act, http://epa.guam.gov/rules-regs/statutes/.
