Sec. 303. Final climate and environmental justice analysis
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When an agency promulgates a final rule under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, after being required by that section or any other law to publish a general notice of proposed rulemaking, or promulgates a final interpretative rule involving the internal revenue laws of the United States as described in section 302(a), and the agency was required to prepare an initial climate and environmental justice analysis for the applicable proposed rule under section 302(b)(1)(A), the agency shall prepare a final climate and environmental justice analysis. Each final climate and environmental justice analysis under paragraph
(1)shall contain— a statement of the need for, and objectives of, the rule; a statement of— the issues raised by frontline communities through consultation under section 305 in preparing the initial climate and environmental justice analysis under section 302(b)(1)(A); an assessment of the issues described in clause (i); and any modification to the proposed rule as a result of the assessment described in clause (ii); the response of the agency to any comments filed by the head of the Office or the Board of Advisors in response to the proposed rule; and a detailed statement of any change made to the proposed rule in the final rule as a result of the comments described in clause (i); a description of and an estimate of the number of residents of frontline communities to which the rule will apply or an explanation of why no such estimate is available; and a description of the steps the agency has taken to minimize the negative, or maximize the positive, significant economic, environmental, and public health impact on frontline communities that are consistent with the stated objectives of applicable statutes, including— a statement of the factual, policy, and legal reasons for selecting the alternative adopted in the final rule; and a description of why each 1 of the other significant alternatives to the rule considered by the agency which affect the impact on frontline communities was rejected. In developing the final climate and environmental justice analysis under paragraph (1), the agency shall give strong consideration to the comments, recommendations, and findings within a report of a review panel under section 305(c)(6), if any, to ensure that benefits are maximized to impacted frontline communities. The head of the agency shall publish in the Federal Register the final climate and environmental justice analysis under subsection (a)(1) or a summary of that analysis.