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Service Description: Priority Equity Communities are census tracts in the SCAG region that have a greater concentration of populations that have been historically marginalized and are susceptible to inequitable outcomes based on several socioeconomic factors. The socioeconomic factors, or priority populations, were selected based on statutorily protected populations and refined with input gathered through outreach processes. The US Census Bureau 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year estimates are used to define each of the thresholds for the priority populations. SCAG’s 2022 High Quality Transit Corridors are used in the Limited Vehicle and Transit Access criteria. This dataset uses 2020 census tracts in the SCAG region. A census tract is considered a Priority Equity Community if there is a concentration above the county average of: BOTH low-income households and people of color; OR EITHER low-income households or people of color AND of four or more of the following: Vulnerable Ages People with Disabilities People with Limited English Proficiency Limited Vehicle and Transit Access People without a High School Diploma Single Parent Households Housing Cost Burdened Households SCAG prepared the dataset by calculating county-level averages for each criterion and removing census tracts that did not meet the criteria. For more details on the methodology or to request the detailed dataset, please contact environmentaljustice@scag.ca.gov.

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Copyright Text: Data preparation and analysis: SCAG, 2023 Demographic data: US Census Bureau, 2017-2021 Geographic Data: US Census Bureau, 2020

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Comments: The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), on behalf of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), announces the availability of the Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool: CalEnviroScreen Version 2.0 (CalEnviroScreen 2.0). CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. The 2.0 report and supporting documents are available at: http://oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.htmlIn brief, the model that CalEnviroScreen Version 2.0 utilized to evaluate the 25 Top Disadvantaged Communities has the following variables:Method 1: Combined Pollution Burden and Population CharacteristicsThis is the method that OEHHA used to rank census tracts in the CalEnviroScreen 2.0 report and ZIP codes in last year’s CalEnviroScreen 1.0 and 1.1 reports. Here, the overall score is calculated by combining the individual indicator scores within each of the two groups, then multiplying the Pollution Burden and Population Characteristics scores to produce a final score. Based on these final scores the census tracts across California are ranked relative to one another.Pollution Burden x Population Characteristics = CalEnviroScreen ScorePollution Burden(Ozone concentrations, PM2.5 concentrations, Diesel PM emissions, Pesticide use, Drinking water contaminants, Toxic releases from facilities, Traffic density, Cleanup sites (½), Groundwater threats (½), Hazardous waste (½), Impaired water bodies (½), Solid waste sites, and facilities (½))Population Characteristics(Children and elderly, Low birth-weight births, Asthma emergency department visits, Educational attainment, Linguistic isolation, Poverty, Unemployment)
Subject: State environmental officials today (Oct. 2014) released an updated version of California’s groundbreaking environmental health screening tool, CalEnviroScreen. The tool will be used to inform the investment of state cap-and-trade funds
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Keywords: Priority Equity Communities (PEC), Equity, Environmental Justice, disadvantaged, priority populations, SCAG
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