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From page 1... ... NCHRP 08‐100: Environmental Justice Analyses When Considering Toll Implementation or Rate Changes Page 1 1.0 Objectives of the Research Through Executive Order 12898, U.S. DOT Order 5610.2(a) , and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. DOT requires transportation agencies to consider environmental justice (EJ) Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... NCHRP 08‐100: Environmental Justice Analyses When Considering Toll Implementation or Rate Changes Page 2 The Guidebook and Toolbox elements – the principal products of this research effort – are intended to convey to practitioners: key considerations, procedures, and tools for undertaking a full‐disclosure analysis and measurement of the aforementioned impacts; strategies to meaningfully engage low‐ income and minority populations in the analysis process so that public and decisionmakers can assess the consequences and trade‐offs in toll implementation and rate change actions; and to adequately prepare and document an environmental justice finding that is consistent with the FHWA and DOT Orders and balances the adverse effects and benefits, including ways to mitigate and offset the impacts of tolling on low‐income and minority populations. The purpose of the Guidebook is primarily to show how to apply tools and case examples in the accompanying Toolbox via a suggested eight‐step process framework for assessing the environmental justice implications of toll implementation or rate changes. The process framework generally follows the typical steps of transportation project planning and development (i.e., scoping, impact and mitigation assessment, and monitoring) . The process framework and application of tools is intended to be scalable depending on what analysis and public engagement indicate as the potential for disproportionately high and adverse effects of the toll implementation or rate change on low‐income and minority populations. In this way, the process framework shows how the tools and case examples can be applied as part of the environmental review by U.S. DOT of a toll implementation or rate change under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Read the entire page →

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... NCHRP 08‐100: Environmental Justice Analyses When Considering Toll Implementation or Rate Changes Page 1 1.0 Objectives of the Research Through Executive Order 12898, U.S. DOT Order 5610.2(a) , and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. DOT requires transportation agencies to consider environmental justice (EJ)

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... NCHRP 08‐100: Environmental Justice Analyses When Considering Toll Implementation or Rate Changes Page 2 The Guidebook and Toolbox elements – the principal products of this research effort – are intended to convey to practitioners: key considerations, procedures, and tools for undertaking a full‐disclosure analysis and measurement of the aforementioned impacts; strategies to meaningfully engage low‐ income and minority populations in the analysis process so that public and decisionmakers can assess the consequences and trade‐offs in toll implementation and rate change actions; and to adequately prepare and document an environmental justice finding that is consistent with the FHWA and DOT Orders and balances the adverse effects and benefits, including ways to mitigate and offset the impacts of tolling on low‐income and minority populations. The purpose of the Guidebook is primarily to show how to apply tools and case examples in the accompanying Toolbox via a suggested eight‐step process framework for assessing the environmental justice implications of toll implementation or rate changes. The process framework generally follows the typical steps of transportation project planning and development (i.e., scoping, impact and mitigation assessment, and monitoring) . The process framework and application of tools is intended to be scalable depending on what analysis and public engagement indicate as the potential for disproportionately high and adverse effects of the toll implementation or rate change on low‐income and minority populations. In this way, the process framework shows how the tools and case examples can be applied as part of the environmental review by U.S. DOT of a toll implementation or rate change under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

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