Environmental Justice Act - U.S. H.R. 654

Environmental Justice Act' ^

[steplock]

A bill by New Jersey representative Andrews who has Re-Defined "Environmental" to include:

"RACE, ETHNICITY, RELIGIOUS MINORITY"

email: rob.andrews@mail.house.gov

United States House of Representatives

H. R. 654 A BILL

To require the head of each Federal agency in the Department of the Interior to consider whether actions of the agency have any disparate impact on any member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT'

Rep. Robert Andrews (D-1st)
2439 Rayburn House Office Building
(202) 225-6501; 225-6583
Haddon Heights: (609) 546-5100
Web Site

[goldstategop]

The Greens reach for the racial shakedown gambit in the name of protecting the environment.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Don't laugh. This is the next frontier in "civil rights" demagoguery.

[steplock]

"Thank you for contacting my office. If you are a constituent of the First Congressional District of New Jersey, and would like a response, please provide my office with your mailing address. If you have already done so, please know that you will receive a response in the mail. If your initial message did not include your mailing address, please resend the entire message along with the addition of your address. I respond to all constituent inquiries. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of e-mails my office receives daily, e-mails from outside my district will not receive a response. I encourage you to please contact your local representative. You can find that person's name by going to www.house.gov, the website of the House of Representatives. In addition, I am unable to reply to messages with attachments and forwarded messages. I thank you again for contacting me.

Congressman Robert E. Andrews "

Yeah right! I bet I'll get a response!

I did send a letter to ALL of the Arkansas reps & senators and CC'd Andrews. Damn, I'm being a pain in the ***!

[Blzbba]

No better place to start any environmental legislation than New Jersey -- THE most polluted state in the Union.

[boris]

The leftists--as usual--have things precisely backwards.

Poor people tend to preferentially settle in areas with low rents, low land values.

Polluting industries next door tend to make property values--hence rent--lower nearby.

Smelters are not sited in Beverly Hills because property values there are simply too high to make it a paying proposition.

This is elementary economics, but we're talking about liberals here.

--Boris

[Black Agnes]

NJ ping. Making a protected class ping.

[Coleus]

Protect your Contitutional and Religious Rights, Freep NJ Congressman Bob Andrews and your Local Congressman.
Congress.org

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c108:./temp/~c108qHm8Ae

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00654:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r108:1:./temp/~r108ZVdCgM::

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Listing of 24 entries containing one or more of your search words.

1 . RACIAL RELATIONS
2 . RURAL AREAS
3 . ETHNIC GROUPS
4 . SNOWE, OLYMPIA J.
5 . BOND, CHRISTOPHER S.
6 . MINORITIES
7 . BECERRA, XAVIER
8 . DISCRIMINATION
9 . HOLLINGS, ERNEST F.
10 . HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
11 . RELIGION
12 . SENIOR CITIZENS
13 . SMITH, GORDON
14 . HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
15 . ANDREWS, ROBERT E.
16 . COLLINS, SUSAN M.
17 . BINGAMAN, JEFF
18 . SOCIAL SECURITY
19 . RANGEL, CHARLES B.
20 . EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
21 . DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
22 . INSURANCE
23 . HEALTH
24 . GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS

[firewalk]

bttt & good afternoon

[Coleus]

HR 654 IH


108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 654
To require the head of each Federal agency in the Department of the Interior to consider whether actions of the agency have any disparate impact on any member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 7, 2003
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL
To require the head of each Federal agency in the Department of the Interior to consider whether actions of the agency have any disparate impact on any member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Environmental Justice Act'.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO CONSIDER DISPARATE IMPACTS OF FEDERAL AGENCY ACTIONS.

The head of each Federal agency in the Department of the Interior shall--

(1) before authorizing, funding, or carrying out any action under any Federal law, consider whether the action will have any disparate impact on any member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority; and

(2) in authorizing, funding, or carrying out any action under any Federal law, seek to limit such disparate impacts to the extent possible consistent with such law.

SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT.

A violation of section 2 with respect to any individual who is a member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority shall be treated as a deprivation of a right of the individual for purposes of section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983).

SEC. 4. AGENCY DEFINED.

In this Act the term `agency' has the meaning given that term by section 551 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 5. APPLICATION.

(a) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act applies to any agency action taken on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(b) LIMITATION- This Act does not apply to an agency action to the extent that there is involved a matter relating to agency management or personnel.

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