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Don
There is fairly large gap between NEPA regulations and guidance which requires health
analysis when significant health effects are expected from an environmental change AND
practice where this is rarely done.
I'm attaching an article that I colleague and I wrote on the topic in 2008. It
discusses the law as well as practical obstacles. The National Academies publication on
HIA says much the same thing as well.
Guidance on NEPA re-enforces this. Both Federal interagency guidance for SIA identifies
health in the scope of social effects. EPA guidance on EJ analysis in NEPA is fairly
explicit in the need to analyze potentially disproportionate environmental and health
impact when the impacts would occur on minority populations.
Recent practice examples are few. Health was included in the NEPA/CEQA analysis for the
I-710 expansion in LA, but the quality of the analysis was not great.
In Washington, the state agency has recently agreed to include a comprehensive health
impact assessment as part of their analysis of the growth of coal rail transport
infrastructure.
The Bay Area MTC included health performance measures in their recent RTP analysis - this
is also a useful prototype demonstrates the feasibility of health forecasting analysis.
Our 2009 health analysis of a proposed congestion pricing scheme in San Francisco also
demonstrated the feasibility of health analysis.
Happy to share addition references
Hope this helps
Rajiv
www.linkedin.com/in/rajivbhatia64/
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Where does nepa require incorporating human health elements?
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Look at Alaska and Massachusetts.
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On Feb 6, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Don Kostelec <don(a)kostelecplanning.com> wrote:
I'm looking for any examples of state DOTs who are incorporating human health themes
into their NEPA process as per NEPA requirements. I have been reviewing several
environmental documents here in NC and have found little if any direct assessment of human
health within the EIS documents. There are some related evaluation components related to
water quality, noise and air quality, but nothing on other dimensions of human health.
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Q: Where does NEPA require incorporating human health elements?
A: See this article for a discussion of integrating assessment of human health in
environmental review, with reference to NEPA.
“Integrating Human Health into Environmental Impact Assessment: An Unrealized Opportunity
for
Environmental Health and Justice”
Rajiv Bhatia and Aaron Wernham
Environ Health Perspectives. 2008 August; 116(8): 991–1000. Published online 2008 April
16.
http://www.hiasociety.org/documents/11132.pdf
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Environmental Review Office
US EPA Region IX, Pacific Southwest
75 Hawthorne St (CED-2), SF, CA 94105
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On Feb 6, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Don Kostelec
<don@kostelecplanning.com<mailto:don@kostelecplanning.com>> wrote:
I'm looking for any examples of state DOTs who are incorporating human health themes
into their NEPA process as per NEPA requirements. I have been reviewing several
environmental documents here in NC and have found little if any direct assessment of human
health within the EIS documents. There are some related evaluation components related to
water quality, noise and air quality, but nothing on other dimensions of human health.
--
___________
Kostelec Planning, LLC
Don Kostelec, AICP
PO Box 16796
Asheville, NC 28816
kostelecplanning.com<http://kostelecplanning.com/>
828.989.5811
don@kostelecplanning.com<mailto:don@kostelecplanning.com>
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