[CPEO-BIF] Inspector General: "The EPA’s Brownfields Projects Program Is on Track to Meet Its Justice40 Goal but Overestimated Disadvantaged Community Benefits"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The EPA’s Brownfields Projects Program Is on Track to Meet Its Justice40 Goal but Overestimated Disadvantaged Community Benefits


U.S. EPA Office of Inspector General 
Report Number 24-P-0067
September 24, 2024

Why We Did This Report

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to determine whether the EPA’s Brownfields Program implemented the Justice40 Initiative’s goal and related requirements for Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act-funded projects.

 

Summary of Findings

We found that the EPA’s Brownfields Projects Program, a subset of the overall Brownfields Program, met the Executive Office of the President’s Justice40 Initiative reporting requirements for fiscal year 2022 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act-funded projects. The program is also projected to meet the EPA’s internal goal of ensuring that at least 40 percent of program benefits go to disadvantaged communities. However, the Agency overestimated the percentage of benefits going to disadvantaged communities for fiscal year 2022.

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For the original announcement and a link to the full report, see
https://www.epaoig.gov/reports/audit/epas-brownfields-projects-program-track-meet-its-justice40-goal-overestimated

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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