Track I: Goods Movement

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Session I (Tuesday, January 26, 12:00 noon – 12:50 pm)

Critical Elements of Goods Movement Policy Recommendations:
Community
 and Tribal Facilitation Strategy

Session Overview:  This session explores how a “Community/Tribal Facilitated Strategy” empowers impacted areas by addressing issues of funding, support, training, and implementation timetable.

Panelist

Organization

Topic Area

Elizabeth Yeampierre

UPROSE, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) NEJAC Acting Chair

Moderator, Q&A

Omega Wilson

West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC) NEJAC Member

Viewpoint as a “Community Perspective” Member of NEJAC Goods Movement Workgroup.

Margaret Gordon

Community Member of American Association of Port Authorities (Oakland, CA)

Viewpoint as a “Community Input” Member of the NEJAC Goods Movement Workgroup.

Gay MacGregor

EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (DC)

Perspective on NEJAC Goods Movement Policy Recommendations.

Senior Official (invited)

US Department of Transportation (Washington DC)


Session II (Tuesday, January 26, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm)

Community Mission: Beyond Goods Movement Policy Recommendations

Session Overview:
  Where is the EJ “community voice” in prioritizing strategies for the survival of impacted communities and tribal areas? Are we thinking out of the box?

Panelist

Organization

Topic Area

Jesse Marquez

Coalition For A Safe Environment (Wilmington, CA)

Moderator, Q&A

Albertha Hasten

Louisiana Environmental Justice Community Organizations Coalition (White Castle, LA)

Local View of Why Consider Relocation Assistance - Options when there is little reduction of air pollution and related water and soil contamination.

Margaret Gordon

Community Member of American Association of Port Authorities (Oakland, CA)

American Association of Port Authorities Involvement:  How To? Community and tribal involvement in port activities, planning, and expansion in EJ communities.

Dr. Sacoby Wilson

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)

Impacts on EJ Families - Damage to community and tribal infrastructure, housing, work, play, and public health.


Session III (Tuesday, January 26, 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm)

Community Mission: Building Community and Tribal Capacity

Session Overview:
  Small Groups will produce a priority/action list of ideas and strategies to advance further capacity building of community/tribal voices.  There will be five concurrent 30-minute small group breakout sessions.

Introduction to Small Group Breakout Sessions: Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC)

Panelist

Organization

Small Group Breakout Session

Herbert Fraser-Rahim

Low-Country Alliance for Mode Communities (North Charleston, SC)

Small Group 1:  How-To Get Input on Port Expansion and Operation - Discussion of challenges and strategies for influencing decisions on port expansion/operation, related manufacturing, storage, transport, ports transfer sites, distribution/sales, end use incineration and recycling.

Hilton Kelly

Community In-Power and Development Association (Port Arthur, TX) and NEJAC Member

Omega Wilson

West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC) and NEJAC Member

Small Group 2: How-To Build Capacity for EJ Communities/Tribal Areas, & Regional EPA Offices - Topics include community/tribal training of EPA officials to more effectively address goods movement issues across cultural barriers and more effective access/use of funding and technical support by local community and tribal organizations.

Richard Grow

EPA Region 9 (San Francisco, CA)

Devon Hall and Dothula Hall

Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (Duplin County, NC)

Small Group 3: How-To Identify Links in Goods Movement Supply Chain - Including Mining Raw Product, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Transportation (air, highway, marine, rail), Ports (air, highway, marine, rail), Public Distribution (box stores, malls, grocery), End Use (Recycling, Incineration, Landfill).

Angelo Logan

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (City of Commerce, CA)

Angel McCormack

EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (RTP, NC)

Small Group 4: How-To Include Alternative Approaches to Monitoring and Action Plans - Examples include long-term monitors on-site of impacted EJ communities/tribal areas, relocation assistance when pollution cannot be resolved, ways to challenge Environmental Impacted Statements (EIS), tribal tools, low/no cost shareware & GIS tools, and alternatives to monitoring.

Jesse Marquez

Coalition For A Safe Environment (Wilmington, CA)

Milton Bluehouse, Jr.

Tribal Liaison for New Mexico Environment Department (Santa Fe, NM)

Small Group 5: How-To Access/Input State/Local and Tribal Goods Movement Actions - Perspectives on effective community and tribal input into government decisions that impact goods movement (land use/zoning, local/county/state planning boards, and environmental impact statements).

Beryl Thurman

North Shore Waterfront Conservancy (Staten Island, NY)

Ayanna King

Formerly of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (Harrisburg, PA)

Small groups will come together for a review of the Goods Movement priority lists, Q & A, and evaluation of the session: facilitated by Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC)

Session IV (Wednesday, January 27, 8:00 am – 9:30 am)

Access and Evaluate Community Capacity and EPA Support of Community and Tribal Areas

Session Overview: What community representatives, university research partners, and others see as “principles of empowerment” for EJ and tribal communities that are impacted by Goods Movement.

Presenter

Organization

Topic Area

Herbert Fraser-Rahim

Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (North Charleston, SC)

Moderator, Q&A

Nick Weiner

ChangeToWin.org (Washington DC)

Truckers’ Issues - Retrofits and Unions - Double impacts as goods movement labor force and as community/tribal residents in impacted EJ areas.

Daria Neal

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington DC)

Legal Strategies Beyond Litigation - Community/Tribal use of legal alternatives, strategies, and options beyond the Clean Air Act.

Omega Wilson

West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC) and NEJAC Member

“Community Peoples’ Table” Paradigm Poster(s) - Goods Movement's Community Facilitated Strategy and the Goods Movement Policy Recommendations.

Dr. Sacoby Wilson

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)

Community-Owned and Managed Research (COMR) Model - Promotion of Equity in Funding and Parity in Management.

Omega Wilson

WERA/USC Community-University Partnership

Completion of Survey/Questionnaire - Assessment and Evaluation of Operating Indicators of Community/Tribal Facilitated Strategy.

Goods Movement Track Evaluations - Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC)


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