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Environmental Justice Communities

The applicable facilities must be located in a municipality on the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) list of distressed municipalities or in the defined census block to be considered under section 22a-20a of the General Statutes and the Environmental Justice Policy.

DECD List of Distressed Municipalities

Other Affected Towns - Currently Available Maps

(These municipalities are not distressed, but have census block groups with 30% of their population living below 200% of the federal poverty level.)
 
For further information, please contact Edith Pestana of the Environmental Justice Program at edith.pestana@ct.gov or by phone at 860-424-3044.