
EJMAP tool allows users to visualize where OBCs, in accordance with the New Jersey Environmental Justice Law, N.J.S.A. 13:1D-157, are throughout the State, where existing facilities regulated under the EJ Law are located and what existing environmental and public health stressors currently impact these OBCs.
For details of underlying calculations behind the beta version of EJMAP, please read the accompanying EJMAP Technical Guidance.
Feedback on the tool and technical guidance, particularly related to the structure and functionality of the tool itself, can be shared to EJMAPFeedback@dep.nj.gov for consideration.
Inclusive of all overburdened communities identified in the recently signed EJ law.
Once EJIC convenes, additional considerations not specified in the recently signed EJ law include, but are not limited to:
Inclusive of all environmental and public health stressors identified in the recently signed EJ law.
Disproportionate quantity of sources of environmental pollution, including, but not limited to:
Once EJIC convenes, additional considerations not specified in the recently signed ation law include, but are not limited to:
The lack or absence of net improvements in social welfare that result from changes in the quantity or quality of ecosystem goods and services attributable to policy or environmental decisions. Once EJIC convenes, additional considerations not specified in the recently signed EJ law include, but are not limited to:
Read more about the statutory definition of Overburdened Communities.