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(1) hypertension; 
(2) hypercholesterolemia; 
(3) diabetes; 
(4) cardiovascular disease; 
(5) prostate cancer; 
(6) breast cancer; 
(7) colon cancer; 
(8) kidney disease; 
(9) glaucoma; and 
(10) other diseases determined appropriate by 
the Secretary. 
(d) DISSEMINATION.—Not later than 24 months 
after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary 
shall publish and disseminate to healthcare provider orga-
nizations the guidelines developed under subsection (a). 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2007 
through 2012. 
Subtitle B—Improving 
Environmental Justice 
SEC. 421. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this subtitle: 
(1) ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘environ-
mental justice’’ means the fair treatment of 
people of all races, cultures, and socioeconomic 
groups with respect to the development, adop-
tion, implementation, and enforcement of laws, 
regulations, and policies affecting the environ-
ment. 
(B) FAIR
TREATMENT.—The term ‘‘fair 
treatment’’ means policies and practices that 
will minimize the likelihood that a minority, 
low-income, or Native American community will 
bear a disproportionate share of the adverse en-
vironmental consequences, or be denied reason-
able access to the environmental benefits, re-
sulting from implementation of a Federal pro-
gram or policy. 
(2) FEDERAL
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal 
agency’’ means— 
(A) each Federal entity represented on the 
Working Group; 
(B) any other entity that conducts any 
Federal program or activity that substantially 
affects human health or the environment; and 
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(C) each Federal agency that implements 
any program, policy, or activity applicable to 
Native Americans. 
(3) WORKING
GROUP.—The term ‘‘Working 
Group’’ means the interagency working group estab-
lished by section 423. 
(4) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘the Ad-
visory Committee’’ means the advisory committee es-
tablished by section 425. 
SEC. 422. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESPONSIBILITIES OF 
FEDERAL AGENCIES. 
(a) ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MISSION.—To the 
greatest extent practicable, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall make achieving environmental justice part of its 
mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, dis-
proportionately high and adverse human health or envi-
ronmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities 
on minority and low-income populations in the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Mar-
iana Islands. 
(b) NONDISCRIMINATION.—Each Federal agency 
shall conduct its programs, policies, and activities in a 
manner that ensures that such programs, policies, and ac-
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tivities do not have the effect of excluding any person or 
group from participation in, denying any person or group 
the benefits of, or subjecting any person or group to dis-
crimination under, such programs, policies, and activities, 
because of race, color, national origin, or income. 
SEC. 423. INTERAGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WORK-
ING GROUP. 
(a) CREATION AND COMPOSITION.—There is hereby 
established the Interagency Working Group on Environ-
mental Justice, comprising the heads of the following exec-
utive agencies and offices, or their designees: 
(1) The Department of Defense. 
(2) The Department of Health and Human 
Services. 
(3) The Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment. 
(4) The Department of Homeland Security. 
(5) The Department of Labor. 
(6) The Department of Agriculture. 
(7) The Department of Transportation. 
(8) The Department of Justice; 
(9) The Department of the Interior. 
(10) The Department of Commerce. 
(11) The Department of Energy. 
(12) The Environmental Protection Agency. 
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(13) The Office of Management and Budget. 
(14) Any other official of the United States 
that the President may designate. 
(b) FUNCTIONS.—The Working Group shall— 
(1) provide guidance to Federal agencies on cri-
teria for identifying disproportionately high and ad-
verse human health or environmental effects on mi-
nority, low-income, and Native American popu-
lations; 
(2) coordinate with, provide guidance to, and 
serve as a clearinghouse for, each Federal agency as 
it develops or revises an environmental justice strat-
egy as required by this subtitle, in order to ensure 
that the administration, interpretation and enforce-
ment of programs, activities, and policies are under-
taken in a consistent manner; 
(3) assist in coordinating research by, and stim-
ulating cooperation among, the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency, the Department of Health and 
Human Services, the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, and other Federal agencies 
conducting research or other activities in accordance 
with section 424; 
(4) assist in coordinating data collection, main-
tenance, and analysis required by this subtitle; 
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(5) examine existing data and studies on envi-
ronmental justice; 
(6) hold public meetings and otherwise solicit 
public participation and consider complaints as re-
quired under subsection (c); 
(7) develop interagency model projects on envi-
ronmental justice that evidence cooperation among 
Federal agencies; and 
(8) in coordination with the Department of the 
Interior and after consultation with tribal leaders, 
coordinate steps to be taken pursuant to this subtitle 
that affect or involve federally-recognized Indian 
Tribes. 
(c) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—The Working Group 
shall— 
(1) hold public meetings and otherwise solicit 
public participation, as appropriate, for the purpose 
of fact-finding with regard to implementation of this 
subtitle, and prepare for public review a summary of 
the comments and recommendations provided; and 
(2) receive, consider, and in appropriate in-
stances conduct inquiries concerning complaints re-
garding environmental justice and the implementa-
tion of this subtitle by Federal agencies. 
(d) ANNUAL REPORTS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Each fiscal year following 
enactment of this Act, the Working Group shall sub-
mit to the President, through the Office of the Dep-
uty Assistant to the President for Environmental 
Policy and the Office of the Assistant to the Presi-
dent for Domestic Policy, a report that describes the 
implementation of this subtitle, including, but not 
limited to, a report of the final environmental justice 
strategies described in section 424 of this subtitle 
and annual progress made in implementing those 
strategies. 
(2) COPY
OF
REPORT.—The President shall 
transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and the President of the Senate a copy of each 
report submitted to the President pursuant to para-
graph (1). 
(e) CONFORMING CHANGE.—The Interagency Work-
ing Group on Environmental Justice established under 
Executive Order No. 12898, dated February 11, 1994, is 
abolished. 
SEC. 424. FEDERAL AGENCY STRATEGIES. 
(a) AGENCY-WIDE
STRATEGIES.—Each Federal 
agency shall develop an agency-wide environmental justice 
strategy that identifies and addresses disproportionally 
high and adverse human health or environmental effects 
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or disproportionally low benefits of its programs, policies, 
and activities with respect to minority, low-income, and 
Native American populations. 
(b) REVISIONS.—Each strategy developed pursuant 
to subsection (a) shall identify programs, policies, plan-
ning, and public participation processes, rulemaking, and 
enforcement activities related to human health or the envi-
ronment that should be revised to— 
(1) promote enforcement of all health and envi-
ronmental statutes in areas with minority, low-in-
come, or Native American populations; 
(2) ensure greater public participation; 
(3) improve research and data collection relat-
ing to the health of and environment of minority, 
low-income, and Native American populations; and 
(4) identify differential patterns of use of nat-
ural resources among minority, low-income, and Na-
tive American populations. 
(c) TIMETABLES.—Each strategy developed pursuant 
to subsection (a) shall include, where appropriate, a time-
table for undertaking revisions identified pursuant to sub-
section (b). 
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SEC. 425. FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVISORY 
COMMITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a com-
mittee to be known as the ‘‘Federal Environmental Justice 
Advisory Committee’’. 
(b) DUTIES.—The Advisory Committee shall provide 
independent advice and recommendations to the Environ-
mental Protection Agency and the Working Group on 
areas relating to environmental justice, which may include 
any of the following: 
(1) Advice on Federal agencies’ framework de-
velopment for integrating socioeconomic programs 
into strategic planning, annual planning, and man-
agement accountability for achieving environmental 
justice results agency-wide. 
(2) Advice on measuring and evaluating agen-
cies’ progress, quality, and adequacy in planning, de-
veloping, and implementing environmental justice 
strategies, projects, and programs. 
(3) Advice on agencies’ existing and future in-
formation management systems, technologies, and 
data collection, and the conduct of analyses that 
support and strengthen environmental justice pro-
grams in administrative and scientific areas. 
(4) Advice to help develop, facilitate, and con-
duct reviews of the direction, criteria, scope, and 
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adequacy of the Federal agencies’ scientific research 
and demonstration projects relating to environ-
mental justice. 
(5) Advice for improving how the Environ-
mental Protection Agency and others participate, co-
operate, and communicate within that agency and 
between other Federal agencies, State or local gov-
ernments, federally recognized Tribes, environmental 
justice leaders, interest groups, and the public. 
(6) Advice regarding the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency’s administration of grant programs re-
lating to environmental justice assistance (not to in-
clude the review or recommendations of individual 
grant proposals or awards). 
(7) Advice regarding agencies’ awareness, edu-
cation, training, and other outreach activities involv-
ing environmental justice. 
(c) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall be considered an advisory committee within 
the meaning of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 
U.S.C. App.). 
(d) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Advisory Committee 
shall be composed of 21 members to be appointed in 
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accordance with paragraph (2). Members shall in-
clude representatives of— 
(A) community-based groups; 
(B) industry and business; 
(C) academic and educational institutions; 
(D) minority health organizations; 
(E) State and local governments, federally 
recognized tribes, and indigenous groups; and 
(F) nongovernmental and environmental 
groups. 
(2) APPOINTMENTS.—Of the members of the 
Advisory Committee— 
(A) five members shall be appointed by the 
majority leader of the Senate; 
(B) five members shall be appointed by the 
minority leader of the Senate; 
(C) five members shall be appointed by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives; 
(D) five members shall be appointed by the 
minority leader of the House of Representa-
tives; and 
(E) one member to be appointed by the 
President. 
(e) MEETINGS.—The Advisory Committee shall meet 
at least twice annually. Meetings shall occur as needed and 
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approved by the Director of the Office of Environmental 
Justice of the Environmental Protection Agency, who shall 
serve as the officer required to be appointed under section 
10(e) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 
App.) with respect to the Committee (in this subsection 
referred to as the ‘‘Designated Federal Officer’’). The Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may 
pay travel and per diem expenses of members of the Advi-
sory Committee when determined necessary and appro-
priate. The Designated Federal Officer or a designee of 
such Officer shall be present at all meetings, and each 
meeting will be conducted in accordance with an agenda 
approved in advance by such Officer. The Designated Fed-
eral Officer may adjourn any meeting when the Des-
ignated Federal Officer determines it is in the public inter-
est to do so. As required by the Federal Advisory Com-
mittee Act, meetings of the Advisory Committee shall be 
open to the public unless the President determines that 
a meeting or a portion of a meeting may be closed to the 
public in accordance with subsection (c) of section 552b 
of title 5, United States Code. Unless a meeting or portion 
thereof is closed to the public, the Designated Federal Of-
ficer shall provide an opportunity for interested persons 
to file comments before or after such meeting or to make 
statements to the extent that time permits. 
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(f) DURATION.—The Advisory Committee shall re-
main in existence until otherwise provided by law. 
SEC. 426. HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RE-
SEARCH, DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS. 
(a) DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT.—To the extent per-
mitted by other applicable law, including section 552a of 
title 5, United States Code, popularly known as the Pri-
vacy Act of 1974, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, or the head of such other Federal 
agency as the President may direct, shall collect, maintain, 
and analyze information assessing and comparing environ-
mental and human health risks borne by populations iden-
tified by race, national origin, or income. To the extent 
practical and appropriate, Federal agencies shall use this 
information to determine whether their programs, policies, 
and activities have disproportionally high and adverse 
human 
health 
or 
environmental 
effects 
on, 
or 
disproportionally low benefits for, minority, low-income, 
and Native American populations. 
(b) INFORMATION RELATED TO NON-FEDERAL FA-
CILITIES.—In connection with the development and imple-
mentation of agency strategies in section 424, the Admin-
istrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or the 
head of such other Federal agency as the President may 
direct, shall collect, maintain, and analyze information on 
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the race, national origin, and income level, and other read-
ily accessible and appropriate information, for areas sur-
rounding facilities or sites expected to have a substantial 
environmental, human health, or economic effect on the 
surrounding populations, if such facilities or sites become 
the subject of a substantial Federal environmental admin-
istrative or judicial action. 
(c) IMPACT FROM FEDERAL FACILITIES.—The Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or 
the head of such other Federal agency as the President 
may direct, shall collect, maintain, and analyze informa-
tion on the race, national origin, and income level, and 
other readily accessible and appropriate information, for 
areas surrounding Federal facilities that are— 
(1) subject to the reporting requirements under 
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to- 
Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq.) as mandated 
in Executive Order No. 12856; and 
(2) expected to have a substantial environ-
mental, human health, or economic effect on sur-
rounding populations. 
(d) INFORMATION SHARING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the respon-
sibilities in this section, each Federal agency, to the 
extent practicable and appropriate, shall share infor-
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mation and eliminate unnecessary duplication of ef-
forts through the use of existing data systems and 
cooperative agreements among Federal agencies and 
with State, local, and tribal governments. 
(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Except as prohib-
ited by other applicable law, information collected or 
maintained pursuant to this section shall be made 
available to the public. 
(e) PUBLIC COMMENT.—Federal agencies shall pro-
vide minority, low-income, and Native American popu-
lations the opportunity to participate in the development, 
design, and conduct of activities undertaken pursuant to 
this section. 
TITLE V—HEALTH 
EMPOWERMENT ZONES 
SEC. 501. HEALTH EMPOWERMENT ZONES. 
(a) HEALTH EMPOWERMENT ZONE PROGRAMS.— 
(1) GRANTS.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Serv-
ices Administration and the Deputy Assistant Sec-
retary for Minority Health Disparity Elimination, 
and in cooperation with the Director of the Office of 
Community Services and the Director of the Na-
tional Center for Minority Health and Health Dis-
parities, shall make grants to partnerships of private 
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and public entities to establish health empowerment 
zone programs in communities that disproportion-
ately experience disparities in health status and 
healthcare for the purpose described in paragraph 
(2). 
(2) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), the purpose of a health empower-
ment zone program under this section shall be 
to assist individuals, businesses, schools, minor-
ity health associations, non-profit organizations, 
community-based 
organizations, 
hospitals, 
healthcare clinics, foundations, and other enti-
ties in communities that disproportionately ex-
perience disparities in health status and 
healthcare which are seeking— 
(i) to improve the health or environ-
ment of minority individuals in the com-
munity and to reduce disparities in health 
status and healthcare by assisting individ-
uals in accessing Federal programs; and 
(ii) to coordinate the efforts of gov-
ernmental and private entities regarding 
the elimination of racial and ethnic dispari-
ties in health status and healthcare. 
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(B) MEDICARE AND MEDICAID.—A health 
empowerment zone program under this section 
shall not provide any assistance (other than re-
ferral and follow-up services) that is duplicative 
of programs under title XVIII or XIX of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 and 1396 
et seq.). 
(3) DISTRIBUTION.—The Secretary shall make 
at least 1 grant under this section to a partnership 
for a health empowerment zone program in commu-
nities that disproportionately experience disparities 
in health status and healthcare that is located in a 
territory or possession of the United States. 
(4) APPLICATION.—To obtain a grant under 
this section, a partnership shall submit to the Sec-
retary an application in such form and in such man-
ner as the Secretary may require. An application 
under this paragraph shall— 
(A) demonstrate that the communities to 
be served by the health empowerment zone pro-
gram are those that disproportionately experi-
ence disparities in health status and healthcare; 
(B) set forth a strategic plan for accom-
plishing the purpose described in paragraph (2), 
by— 
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(i) describing the coordinated health, 
economic, human, community, and physical 
development plan and related activities 
proposed for the community; 
(ii) describing the extent to which 
local institutions and organizations have 
contributed and will contribute to the plan-
ning process and implementation; 
(iii) identifying the projected amount 
of Federal, State, local, and private re-
sources that will be available in the area 
and the private and public partnerships to 
be used (including any participation by or 
cooperation 
with 
universities, 
colleges, 
foundations, non-profit organizations, med-
ical centers, hospitals, health clinics, school 
districts, or other private and public enti-
ties); 
(iv) identifying the funding requested 
under any Federal program in support of 
the proposed activities; 
(v) identifying benchmarks for meas-
uring the success of carrying out the stra-
tegic plan; 
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(vi) demonstrating the ability to reach 
and service the targeted underserved mi-
nority community populations in a cul-
turally appropriate and linguistically re-
sponsive manner; and 
(vii) demonstrating a capacity and in-
frastructure to provide long-term commu-
nity response that is culturally appropriate 
and linguistically responsive to commu-
nities that disproportionately experience 
disparities in health and healthcare; and 
(C) include such other information as the 
Secretary may require. 
(5) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under 
this subsection, the Secretary shall give preference 
to proposals from indigenous community entities 
that have an expertise in providing culturally appro-
priate and linguistically responsive services to com-
munities that disproportionately experience dispari-
ties in health and health care. 
(b) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR HEALTH EMPOWER-
MENT ZONE GRANT PROGRAMS.—The Secretary, the Ad-
ministrator of the Small Business Administration, the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Education, the 
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