3: Cleaning Up Communities and Advancing Sustainable Development

Clean up communities, advance sustainable development, and protect disproportionately impacted low-income, minority, and tribal communities. Prevent releases of harmful substances and clean up and restore contaminated areas.

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Using all the tools at our disposal, including targeted enforcement and compliance efforts, the EPA will continue to make our communities safer and healthier. We are accelerating these efforts through our Superfund program to confront significant local environmental challenges. The collapse of a coal-ash impoundment in Kingston, Tenn., focused the EPA’s attention on how these disposal facilities are managed nationwide. In response, the EPA proposed options for the nation’s first rules to address the risks from the disposal of coal ash generated by coal-fired power plants. By maximizing the potential of our brownfields program to spur environmental cleanups and by fostering stronger partnerships with stakeholders affected by our cleanups, we are moving toward our goal of building sustainable, healthy, economically vibrant communities. And by strengthening our work with tribal communities, we are advancing our efforts to build environmental-management capacity and program implementation in Indian country.

Objective(s):

3.1: Promote Sustainable and Livable Communities

3.2: Preserve Land

3.3: Restore Land

3.4: Strengthen Human Health and Environmental Protection in Indian Country

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