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Environmental Justice: desk report

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One row of the risk matrix, CO-01 Environmental Justice, in the Community Resources section: what the record holds on it.

A desk review of the record as it stood: not a field survey and not a modelled study.

Information cut-off
2023-08-01
Row in the matrix
CO-01 Environmental Justice
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1Finding

UnknownEvidence insufficient to rate; an information request is listed

up to1Resource is present within area, impact unlikely

The engine shows this rating as Unknown (up to 1)

The rule

Code computed the rating from the assessor's inputs:

present=unknown -> Unknown (abstain)

Set by the rule

Decision
Abstained (information request)
The engine's reasons
  • Agencies not in the register or the evidence: Ohio EPA, OPSB, USEPA
Evidence state
MISSING · no evidence in hand

The assessor's comments

No environmental justice screening is included in the data room. No EJ siting criterion was found among the applicable requirements. An EJScreen/CEJST review of the project area would settle whether EJ communities are present nearby.

Conclusion withheld

Question
Are low-income, minority or overburdened communities identified near the project site?
Missing evidence
EJ screening (EJScreen/CEJST/state tool) for the project area.
Consequence
Without a screen, the EJ engagement and any siting-process EJ considerations cannot be rated.
Information request
Provide any EJ screening or community demographic analysis for the project area, or authorize running EJScreen/CEJST.
Blocks the decision
No

Worst case

If what is pending at the cut-off went badly, the same rule gives a higher rating.

Scenario

Nothing in the evidence suggests an EJ community could be present, so placeholders are repeated.

Step still pending
EJ screening (EJScreen/CEJST) of the project area
Inputs in the worst case
Extent unknown · Avoidable unknown · Pathway none · Impact likely no
The rule on the worst case
point Unknown; worst case: present, impact unlikely -> 1

2What the record shows

The five inputs

  • Present: unknown

    No EJ screen (EJScreen, CEJST or state tool) is in the data room and no claims address this row. Absence of evidence is not absence; presence is unknown.

    Cites no claim.

  • Extent: unknown

    No screening result exists, so position relative to any EJ community is undocumented.

    Cites no claim.

  • Avoidable: unknown

    No candidate requirements or evidence document an EJ lever; cannot be established.

    Cites no claim.

  • Pathway: none

    Placeholder because presence is unknown. No EJ requirement identified among candidate requirements.

    Cites no claim.

  • Impact likely: no

    Placeholder because presence is unknown.

    Cites no claim.

Supporting statements (0)

The row cites no claim.

3Permits and requirements

The requirements tied to the rows of this report, by level. Each quote from dated law is shown with its source, the version in force on the cut-off and the basis for it.

No requirement is tied to the rows of this report.

4What is missing

The information requests the run raised for the rows of this report, by priority: what is missing, what follows from it, and whether it holds up the decision.

High priority (1)

  • IR-ba9d44c572 · High priority

    Provide the ej screening (ejscreen/cejst/state tool) for the project area for the project area, or confirm none exists.

    Missing evidence
    EJ screening (EJScreen/CEJST/state tool) for the project area
    Consequence
    Environmental Justice is rated on no evidence without it.
    Blocks the decision
    Yes
    Raised by
    completeness

Medium priority (1)

  • IR-293cbb6a38 · Medium priority

    Are low-income, minority or overburdened communities identified near the project site?

    Missing evidence
    EJ screening (EJScreen/CEJST/state tool) for the project area.
    Consequence
    Without a screen, the EJ engagement and any siting-process EJ considerations cannot be rated.
    Blocks the decision
    No
    Raised by
    abstention

5Next steps and agencies

Next steps

  • Run EJScreen and CEJST for the project area and a surrounding buffer.
  • Confirm no EJ criterion applies in the OPSB siting process.
  • Plan targeted community engagement if EJ communities are identified.

Agencies

  • Ohio EPA
  • OPSB
  • USEPA

6Basis and limits

This report is a desk review of the documents quoted above, as the engine read them for an information cut-off of 2023-08-01.

It is not a field survey and not a modelled study: this review made no site visit and ran no acoustic, hydraulic or other model. Where the record is silent, the report says what is missing; it does not fill the gap.

Every statement, figure and quote is the engine's record as written. The headings and connecting words are fixed text of this room, the same in every report.

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Information cut-off
2023-08-01
Engine version
2.11.0
Prompt version
2026-11-08.1
Rows pack
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Federal pack
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State pack
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Local pack
oh_carroll_county.json sha256 905cd3308848e7e8
Data room manifest
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Audit chain
valid (19 events)
QA status
PASS_WITH_WARNINGS
Rendered at
2026-11-10T15:42:40+00:00
Run record (annex)
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Exporter
Prism/room/exporter 1.4.0

Prism desk report · engine 2.11.0 · prompts 2026-11-08.1 · information cut-off 2023-08-01

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