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School Siting Model Legislation

This policy was developed by the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ) in collaboration with school, health, and environmental organizations, engineers and health professionals.  This model draws upon a site assessment process developed by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (CDTSC) to evaluate potential contamination at proposed school sites and cleanup criteria developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC).  The original evaluation process was developed by CHEJ’s Childproofing Our Communities Campaign and published in the campaign’s Poisoned Schools Invisible Threats, Visible Actions report in 2001.  This model policy can be tailored for individual state or local legislation.  It is our expectation that the model will be used at various levels of government to begin the discussion of the need for such laws, laying the groundwork for protective laws in the near future.

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