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®~~~4` ~'o~~r'A <br />~r <br />:kaf~b ~Eaco\~os <br /> <br />~-Alternate-SetuheF~ <br />1. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CONSIDERATIONS <br />Consideration: The following questions should be asked with respect to each site: <br />1, What are the environmental justice implications if this site is selected for the proposed <br />transfer station? <br />If a potential site has environmental justice implications, have all Orange County residents <br />been given adequate notice of the issue, relevant information, and opportunities to give <br />meaningful input before the final decision (site selection) is made? <br />Does siting of the proposed transfer station have a potentially cumulative environmental <br />impact on a specific community or neighborhood? <br />If a proposed site may be environmentally unjust, is (here an alternative resolution that would <br />have a less disparate impact while still accomplishing our core purpose? <br />Definition, The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes, and <br />educational levels wish respect to the development and enforcement of environmental laws, <br />regulations, policies, and decisions. Fair treatment means that no group of people should bear a <br />disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, <br />governmental, and commercial operations or policies, <br />Attachment 2B <br />Candidate sites will be respectively ranked Rogers Road area should be <br />considering inequitable sharing of negative excluded from consitlera(ion. <br />environmental consequences and potential <br />cumulative environmental impacts on adjacent Hisfory of a site should be <br />communities or neighborhoods. part of the environmental <br />justce criteria. Include time <br />dependent accumulative <br />environmental impacts. <br />Suggested removing non•protected <br />character from criteria description. <br />"Every neighborhood has character, but <br />there should be more sensitivity to some <br />neighborhoods because of its <br />character." <br />Attachment 26 <br />Page 1 BOCC Work Session - 06/16/08 <br />