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A08490 Summary:
| BILL NO | A08490A |
| SAME AS | No same as |
| SPONSOR | Peoples-Stokes |
| COSPNSR | Rosenthal |
| MLTSPNSR | Ball, Latimer |
| Add Art 48 SS48-0101 - 48-0113, En Con L | |
| Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; provides that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council. | |