Agency request for public comments on a draft EPA publication

Request for comments on a draft EPA publication

Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development

Communities across the country are integrating smart growth and environmental justice approaches to achieve development that is healthy, environmentally and economically sustainable, and beneficial for all residents, regardless of race, ethnicity, and income. Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development aims to build on past successes and help other low-income, minority, tribal, and overburdened communities implement their own versions of equitable development. It identifies strategies that bring together smart growth and environmental justice principles and goals and can be used by community-based organizations, local and regional decision-makers, developers, and other stakeholders to shape land use decisions where they live.

To ensure that this publication is as helpful as possible for communities, EPA is soliciting comments on the draft through July 6, 2012. For more information, please visit http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth.

Please Note: If you commented on this draft in the spring, there is no need to resubmit your comments. The majority of the comments from the first comment period have not yet been incorporated; where appropriate, they will be incorporated following this second comment period.