Document ID: EPA-HQ-OEJECR-2023-0099-0005
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Charter Amendments, Establishments, Renewals and Terminations: White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Posted Date: 2023-03-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 16006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05318]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-10789-01-OA; EPA-HQ-OEJECR-2023-0099]

White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council; Notice of 
Charter Renewal

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of charter renewal.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) has determined that, in accordance with the provisions of 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), the White House 
Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) is necessary and in the 
public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on 
the agency by law. Accordingly, WHEJAC will be renewed for an 
additional two-year period. The purpose of the WHEJAC is to provide 
independent advice and recommendations to the Chair of the Council on 
Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to the White House Environmental 
Justice Interagency Council (IAC) on how to increase the Federal 
Government's efforts to address current and historic environmental 
injustice. The WHEJAC will provide advice and recommendations about 
broad cross-cutting issues related, but not limited, to issues of 
environmental justice and pollution reduction, energy, climate change 
mitigation and resiliency, environmental health, and racial inequity. 
The WHEJAC's efforts will include a broad range of strategic, 
scientific, technological, regulatory, community engagement, and 
economic issues related to environmental justice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquiries may be directed to Karen L. 
Martin, WHEJAC Designated Federal Officer, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; by telephone at 202-564-0203; via 
email at [email protected].

Matthew Tejada,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Justice, Office of 
Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.
[FR Doc. 2023-05318 Filed 3-14-23; 8:45 am]
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