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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 19 / Monday, February 1, 2021 / Presidential Documents
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c Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency shall provide funding and administrative support for the Advisory Council to the extent permitted by law and within existing appropriations. Members of the Advisory Council shall serve without either compensation or reimbursement of expenses.
d Federal Advisory Committee Act. Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended 5 U.S.C. App., may apply to the Advisory Council, any functions of the President under the Act, except for those in section 6 of the Act, shall be performed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with the guidelines that have been issued by the Administrator of General Services.
Sec. 222. Agency Responsibilities. In furtherance of the policy set forth in section 219:
a The Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality shall, within 6
months of the date of this order, create a geospatial Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool and shall annually publish interactive maps highlighting disadvantaged communities.
b The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, within existing appropriations and consistent with applicable law:
i strengthen enforcement of environmental violations with disproportionate impact on underserved communities through the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; and ii create a community notification program to monitor and provide realtime data to the public on current environmental pollution, including emissions, criteria pollutants, and toxins, in frontline and fenceline communitiesplaces with the most significant exposure to such pollution.
c The Attorney General shall, within existing appropriations and consistent with applicable law:
i consider renaming the Environment and Natural Resources Division the Environmental Justice and Natural Resources Division;
ii direct that division to coordinate with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, through the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, as well as with other client agencies as appropriate, to develop a comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy, which shall seek to provide timely remedies for systemic environmental violations and contaminations, and injury to natural resources; and iii ensure comprehensive attention to environmental justice throughout the Department of Justice, including by considering creating an Office of Environmental Justice within the Department to coordinate environmental justice activities among Department of Justice components and United States Attorneys Offices nationwide.
d The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, consistent with applicable law and within existing appropriations:
i establish an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity to address the impact of climate change on the health of the American people;
and ii establish an Interagency Working Group to Decrease Risk of Climate Change to Children, the Elderly, People with Disabilities, and the Vulnerable as well as a biennial Health Care System Readiness Advisory Council, both of which shall report their progress and findings regularly to the Task Force.
e The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall, in consultation with the National Climate Advisor, within existing appropriations, and within 100 days of the date of this order, publish a report identifying the climate strategies and technologies that will result in the most air and water quality improvements, which shall be made public to the maximum extent possible and published on the Offices website.
Sec. 223. Justice40 Initiative. a Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, the Director of the
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