ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Cal. PRC § 71118
California Statutes
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a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Agency” means the California Environmental Protection Agency. (2) “Disadvantaged community” means a community identified pursuant to
Section of the Health and Safety Code. (3) “Supplemental environmental project” means an environmentally beneficial project that a person subject to an enforcement action voluntarily agrees to undertake in settlement of the action and to offset a portion of a civil penalty. (
b) Each board, department, and office within the agency that has enforcement authority shall establish a policy on supplemental environmental projects that benefits disadvantaged communities. The policy shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) A public process to solicit potential supplemental environmental projects from disadvantaged communities.
(2) Allowing the amount of a supplemental environmental project to be up to percent of the enforcement action brought under the jurisdiction of a board, department, or office within the agency.
(3) An annual list of supplemental environmental projects that may be selected to settle a portion of an enforcement action under the jurisdiction of a board, department, or office within the agency.
(4) A consideration of the relationship between the location of the violation and the location of the proposed supplemental environmental project. (
c) The Secretary for Environmental Protection shall consolidate the projects compiled pursuant to subdivision (
b) into one list and post that list on the agency’s Internet Web site.