Version 1.0 Release update - Nov 22, 2022

New & improved

Added lands within the boundaries of Federally Recognized Tribes and locations of Alaska Native Villages using data from the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior

Added new data for indicators of burden

Climate change

Projected flood risk

Projected wildfire risk

Housing

Historic underinvestment due to redlining

Lack of green space

Lack of plumbing

Legacy pollution

Abandoned mine lands

Formerly used defense sites

Transportation

Transportation barriers

Water and wastewater

Underground storage tanks and releases

Included communities that are completely surrounded by other disadvantaged communities and that meet an adjusted low income threshold

Made technical changes to enhance accuracy of the tool

Removed income data for students enrolled in higher education in the low income indicator

Imputed income for census tracts missing income data

Used transportation barriers and expected population loss rate data burdens only for census tracts with populations of 20 or more to exclude areas such as airports

Improved the user interface

Added demographics (race & age) for census tracts to map side panel

Improved the design of the map side panel

Updated the site copy of the website

Added new data for all the U.S. Territories, and also made a small methodology change for Puerto Rico

USVI

Included data from 2010 decennial census for US Virgin Islands

Guam

Included data from 2010 decennial census for Guam

Puerto Rico

Removed linguistic isolation as an indicator in the methodology for Puerto Rico

Imported additional available data for Puerto Rico

Energy cost

Housing cost

Abandoned mine lands

Proximity to hazardous waste sites

Proximity to Superfund (National Priorities List (NPL)) sites

Proximity to Risk Management Plan (RMP) sites

Enhanced the technical files:

Added all new data indicators and demographics to .xls, .csv, and shapefiles

Added previous versions page to access the beta version’s download files

Updated codebook

Updated Technical Support Document

Improved the way that users provide feedback on the tool:

Data survey

Site experience survey

Census tract feedback

General contact form

Added a link to sign up for email mailing list managed by CEQ

Fixes

Bug fix: loaded missing life expectancy data for Maine and Wisconsin

Bug fix: Census tracts that are 100% water should not be included on the map

release version 1.0

Version 1.0 Release update - Nov 22, 2022

New & improved

Added lands within the boundaries of Federally Recognized Tribes and locations of Alaska Native Villages using data from the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior

Added new data for indicators of burden

Climate change

Projected flood risk

Projected wildfire risk

Housing

Historic underinvestment due to redlining

Lack of green space

Lack of plumbing

Legacy pollution

Abandoned mine lands

Formerly used defense sites

Transportation

Transportation barriers

Water and wastewater

Underground storage tanks and releases

Included communities that are completely surrounded by other disadvantaged communities and that meet an adjusted low income threshold

Made technical changes to enhance accuracy of the tool

Removed income data for students enrolled in higher education in the low income indicator

Imputed income for census tracts missing income data

Used transportation barriers and expected population loss rate data burdens only for census tracts with populations of 20 or more to exclude areas such as airports

Improved the user interface

Added demographics (race & age) for census tracts to map side panel

Improved the design of the map side panel

Updated the site copy of the website

Added new data for all the U.S. Territories, and also made a small methodology change for Puerto Rico

USVI

Included data from 2010 decennial census for US Virgin Islands

Guam

Included data from 2010 decennial census for Guam

Puerto Rico

Removed linguistic isolation as an indicator in the methodology for Puerto Rico

Imported additional available data for Puerto Rico

Energy cost

Housing cost

Abandoned mine lands

Proximity to hazardous waste sites

Proximity to Superfund (National Priorities List (NPL)) sites

Proximity to Risk Management Plan (RMP) sites

Enhanced the technical files:

Added all new data indicators and demographics to .xls, .csv, and shapefiles

Added previous versions page to access the beta version’s download files

Updated codebook

Updated Technical Support Document

Improved the way that users provide feedback on the tool:

Data survey

Site experience survey

Census tract feedback

General contact form

Added a link to sign up for email mailing list managed by CEQ

Fixes

Bug fix: loaded missing life expectancy data for Maine and Wisconsin

Bug fix: Census tracts that are 100% water should not be included on the map

release version 1.0