Comment EI-19850
Received or sent (printed as 1/11/2013)
I am opposing the Tongue River Railroad. I am a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, mother, grandmother to children who may be exposed to coal waste from cars passing through/by the reservation, either by probable derailments or just from the blow off. I am citing the Executive Order 12898 from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration Executive Order 12898 EO 12898, known as the Federal Environmental Justive Policy, requires federal agencies to address, to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, the potential disproportionately high, adverse human health and environmental impacts of thier programs, policies, and activities on minority and low income populations. Federal agency responsibilities under this Evecutive Order also apply to Native American Programs. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) order 5610.2 was issued in 1997 to comply with EO 12898. The policy of the DOT Order is to promote the principles on the environmental justice in all DOT programs which includes the FRA. The DOT Order defines environmental justice to mean adverse impact that is predominately borne by a minority population and/ or a low income population, or that would be suffered by the minority population and /or low income population. I will also be sending a certified letter to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. Thank you
Submitted by: Theresa L. Small · Northern Cheyenne Tribe · Lame Deer, Montana
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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