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Problem:SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Community Environmental Equity
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.

(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) There is a growing recognition that urban, low-income,
and minority communities tend to be overburdened with polluting
facilities such as waste transfer stations, power plants,
superfund sites, brownfields, and toxic release inventory
sites.
(2) Poor and urban neighborhoods are forced to suffer the
effects associated with increased waste processing because they
often lack the resources to defend their rights and cannot
quantify unhealthy environmental factors.
(3) Addressing the problem of contaminated surroundings
impacting low-income or minority communities must be a priority
of this Nation.
(4) Health respiratory conditions such as asthma can be
traced to environmental conditions impacting a community such
as air pollution and biological contaminants.
(5) Asthma is one of the leading chronic health conditions
in the United States (affecting over 15 million people) and the
leading chronic youth illness (affecting 6.5 million children).
(6) At risk communities need resources to gather
information useful in planning preventive health and
environmental strategies to protect residents from polluting
conditions.
(7) Alliances of community-based organizations and
community health centers are often in the best position to
develop neighborhood health profiles to assist heath policy
makers in assessing the health impact of future growth or
redevelopment.
(8) Federal resources can help communities protect
themselves from being disproportionately exposed to
contaminants which can cause respiratory health complications
such as asthma.
(b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to prevent any individual or community from being
disproportionately exposed to hazardous materials;
(2) to enable government agencies to protect individuals
and communities from such exposure;
(3) to give community-based organizations and community
health centers the tools necessary to measure neighborhood
impacts of environmental hazards; and
(4) to enable such organizations and centers to maintain a
health profile for their communities and in this manner prevent
discriminatory exposure to hazardous substances.

SEC. 3. DISCRIMINATION REGARDING EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.

The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended by
adding at the end the following title:

''TITLE XXX--DISCRIMINATION REGARDING EXPOSURE TO COVERED SUBSTANCES

''SEC. 3001. DEFINITIONS.

''In this title:
''(1) Covered entity.--The term 'covered entity' means any
entity which handles, manages, treats, releases, discharges,
disposes of, stores, transports, removes, moves, or delivers
covered substances.
''(2) Covered substance.--The term 'covered substance'
means any of the following:
''(A) Any contaminant identified under the Safe
Drinking Water Act (title XIV of this Act).
''(B) Any substance described in section 201(q) of
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and any
material registered pursuant to the Act referred to in
paragraph (1) of such section.
''(C) Any chemical listed by the National
Toxicology Program of the Department of Health and
Human Services as a known or probable human carcinogen.
''(D) Any substance defined in section 101(14) of
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act of 1980 and any chemical subject to
section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community
Right-To-Know Act of 1986.
''(E) Any material subject to the requirements
concerning material safety data sheets for chemicals
under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
''(F) Any chemical substance or mixture regulated
under the Toxic Substance Control Act.
''(G) Any hazardous waste identified under the
Solid Waste Disposal Act.
''(H) Any pesticide registered under the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.
''(I) Any air pollutant regulated under the Clean
Air Act.
''(J) Such other contaminants, chemicals,
materials, wastes, and substances as the President,
acting through the head of the appropriate agency,
determines to be appropriate for purposes of this
title.

''SEC. 3002. PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION.

''(a) In General.--A covered entity shall not, on the ground of
race, color, national origin, or economic status, disproportionately
expose any person or community to any covered substance.
''(b) Compliance.--
''(1) Identification.--A covered entity shall consult and
work in partnership with the States, local government
officials, and the Federal Government to comply with subsection
(a).
''(2) Addressing disproportionate exposure.--A covered
entity shall address the actual or potential disproportionate
exposure to covered substances of individuals or communities,
on the ground of race, color, national origin, or economic
status, prior to pursuing State and local administrative
proceedings to obtain authorization or approval to handle,
manage, treat, release, discharge, dispose of, transport,
remove, move, deliver or otherwise use covered substances.
''(c) Regulations.--
''(1) In general.--The President shall require the
appropriate Federal officials to issue regulations to implement
this section consistent with the provisions of section 602 of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 relating to compliance.
''(2) Enforcement.--Compliance with this section may be
effectuated (1) by the termination of or refusal to grant
authorization to any covered entity to handle, manage, treat,
release, discharge, dispose of, store, transport, remove, move,
or deliver covered substances; or (2) by any other means
authorized by law. With respect to any covered entity that is a
recipient of Federal financial assistance, compliance may also
be effectuated pursuant to section 602 of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
''(3) Dates certain regarding regulations.--For purposes of
carrying out this section--
''(A) proposed rules shall be issued not later than
6 months after the date of the enactment of the
Community Environmental Equity Act;
''(B) final rules shall be issued not later than 18
months after such date of enactment; and
''(C) such final rules shall take effect not later
than 30 months after such date of enactment.
''(d) Biennial Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date on
which final rules are issued pursuant to subsection (c)(3)(B), and
every 2 years thereafter, the Federal Interagency Environmental Justice
Working Group (established under Executive Order 12898 (February 11,
1994)) shall submit to the Congress a report on activities carried out
under this section.

''SEC. 3003. COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPACT PROFILE PROGRAM GRANTS.

''(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a Health Impact
Profile Program for the purpose of making grants to community-based
organizations and community health centers to assist in the planning
and development of community health impact profiles.
''(b) Requirement.--The Secretary may not make a grant to a
community-based organization or a community health center under this
section unless the organization or center--
''(1) is located in the community in which the grant will
be used; or
''(2) enters into a partnership with an entity in such
community for purposes of carrying out the activities described
in subsection (c).
''(c) Use of Funds.--The Secretary may not make a grant to a
community-based organization or a community health center under this
section unless the organization or center agrees to use the grant for
the following:
''(1) Conducting an overall neighborhood health assessment
to measure the prospective environmental health consequences
of--
''(A) any significant proposed growth or
redevelopment plan; and
''(B) any exposure in the community to covered
substances.
''(2) Building community expertise to develop health impact
profiles through community-based organizations and community
health centers.
''(3) Improving community ability to identify harmful
environmental exposure by covered entities.
''(4) Preserving a healthy and environmentally friendly
community.
''(d) Administrative Costs.--The Secretary may not make a grant to
a community-based organization or a community health center under this
section unless the organization or center agrees that, of the amount
received through the grant, not more than 10 percent of such amount
will be used to cover reasonable administrative costs necessary to
carry out the activities described in subsection (c).
''(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section,
there is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2008 through 2010. Funds appropriated under this section shall
remain available until expended.''.
Solution:
Community Environmental Equity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit any entity that handles, manages, treats, releases, discharges, disposes, stores, transports, removes, moves, or delivers any covered substance from disproportionately exposing any person or community to such substance on the ground of race, color, national origin, or economic status.

Defines "covered substance" to include: (1) any contaminant identified under the Safe Drinking Water Act; (2) any pesticide chemical under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; (3) any chemical listed as a known or probable human carcinogen under the National Toxicology Program of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); (4) any chemical substance or mixture regulated under the Toxic Substance Control Act; (5) any hazardous waste identified under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (6) any pesticide registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; and (7) any air pollutant regulated under the Clean Air Act.

Requires such an entity to: (1) work in partnership with state and local government officials and the federal government to comply with this Act; and (2) address actual or potential disproportionate exposure to covered substances prior to pursuing authorization or approval to work with such substances.

Authorizes enforcement: (1) by denial or termination of authorization to work with covered substances; (2) by any other means authorized by law; and (3) for an entity receiving federal financial assistance, through specified compliance provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Health Impact Profile Program to make grants to community-based organizations and community health centers to assist in the planning and development of community health impact profiles.