policies, and activities need environmental justice re-
views and require these offices to establish a plan to 
complete the necessary reviews. 
(2) The recommendation that the Administrator 
of the agency ensure that these reviews determine 
whether the programs, policies, and activities may 
have a disproportionately high and adverse health or 
environmental impact on minority and low-income 
populations. 
(3) The recommendation that each program 
and regional office develop specific environmental 
justice review guidance for conducting environmental 
justice reviews. 
(4) The recommendation that the Administrator 
designate a responsible office to compile results of 
environmental justice reviews and recommend appro-
priate actions. 
(b) GAO RECOMMENDATIONS.—In developing rules 
under laws administered by the Environmental Protection 
Agency, the Administrator of the Agency shall, as prompt-
ly as practicable, carry out each of the following rec-
ommendations of the Comptroller General of the United 
States as set forth in GAO Report numbered GAO–05– 
289 entitled ‘‘EPA Should Devote More Attention to En-
vironmental Justice when Developing Clean Air Rules’’: 
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(1) The recommendation that the Administrator 
ensure that workgroups involved in developing a rule 
devote attention to environmental justice while draft-
ing and finalizing the rule. 
(2) The recommendation that the Administrator 
enhance the ability of such workgroups to identify 
potential environmental justice issues through such 
steps as providing workgroup members with guid-
ance and training to helping them identify potential 
environmental justice problems and involving envi-
ronmental justice coordinators in the workgroups 
when appropriate. 
(3) The recommendation that the Administrator 
improve assessments of potential environmental jus-
tice impacts in economic reviews by identifying the 
data and developing the modeling techniques needed 
to assess such impacts. 
(4) The recommendation that the Administrator 
direct appropriate agency officers and employees to 
respond fully when feasible to public comments on 
environmental justice, including improving the agen-
cy’s explanation of the basis for its conclusions, to-
gether with supporting data. 
(c) 2004 INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT.—The Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, 
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as promptly as practicable, carry out each of the following 
recommendations of the Inspector General of the agency 
as set forth in the report entitled ‘‘EPA Needs to Consist-
ently Implement the Intent of the Executive Order on En-
vironmental Justice’’ (Report No. 2004–P–00007): 
(1) The recommendation that the agency clearly 
define the mission of the Office of Environmental 
Justice (OEJ) and provide agency staff with an un-
derstanding of the roles and responsibilities of the 
office. 
(2) The recommendation that the agency estab-
lish (through issuing guidance or a policy statement 
from the Administrator) specific time frames for the 
development of definitions, goals, and measurements 
regarding environmental justice and provide the re-
gions and program offices a standard and consistent 
definition for a minority and low-income community, 
with instructions on how the agency will implement 
and operationalize environmental justice into the 
agency’s daily activities. 
(3) The recommendation that the agency ensure 
the comprehensive training program currently under 
development includes standard and consistent defini-
tions of the key environmental justice concepts (such 
as ‘‘low-income’’, ‘‘minority’’, and ‘‘disproportion-
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