Attendance is open to the public.
The committee, known as the Title VI Implementation Advisory Committee, is comprised of 23 members representing communities, businesses, government and academia from a cross-section of geographic areas. May. Two more will be scheduled before the end of the year. Title VI is the portion of the Civil Rights Act which says that entities receiving federal money cannot discriminate. In recent years, several community groups have used Title VI as the basis to challenge environmental permits proposed for industrial facilities in poor and minority neighborhoods. State agencies that grant the permits receive federal funds to run their environmental permitting programs.