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RCED-95-158R 1 (1995-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackwv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (3 United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-261015 June 13, 1995 The Honorable John Glenn Ranking Minority Member Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate I- V) 0 -L 6 0~ The Honorable John Lewis House of Representatives As you requested, the enclosures contain our summaries of 10 studies on the race and income of people living near a variety of waste facilities, primarily ones for hazardous waste. These studies of the issue known as environmental justice were conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and members of academia, private industry, and advocacy groups. An abbreviated summary of these studies is also found in chapter 3 of our report to you entitled Hazardous and Nonhazardous Waste: Demographics of People Living Near Waste Facilities (GAO/RCED-95-84, June 13, 1995). The issue of environmental justice--the question of whether hazardous waste facilities and polluting industries are disproportionately located in neighborhoods where poor people and/or minorities live--has been the subject of growing concern over the past decade. In 1987, the United Church of Christ published a nationwide study of the association between hazardous waste facilities and the racial/socioeconomic composition of the communities hosting such facilities. That study was followed by others that analyzed different types of facilities or used different methods in an attempt to shed further light on the issue. We selected the 10 studies listed below because they met the following specific criteria: They (1) addressed hazardous waste facilities, (2) were national or regional in scope, and (3) were published after 1986. While all of the studies included hazardous waste facilities in their analysis, only two also included nonhazardous waste facilities. GAO/RCED-95-158R, 10 Studies on Demographics Near Waste Facilities

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