I.  Community Participation

1. How and when should government agencies provide the public with notice of a request for a permit, or of an enforcement action or other like activity?
2. What role in the decision making process should people in an environmental justice community have?
3. Explore what are the triggers for an assessment to define if your community qualifies as an Environmental Justice community?
4. What should be in the assessment?  Income? Disease?  Population? How should the voices from the impacted community be weighted?
5. What resources should be made available for the public to be able to fully participate in the process?

II  Enforcement

1. What should be done with corporations who keep violating the laws, pay their fines, and then violate the law again?  (Habitual violators)
2. What role should local residents have when government is negotiating with a corporation about their violation and fines?
3. When a corporation must pay a fine where should that money go?  Should a citizen’s fund be established to be used by Environmental Justice Communities? 
4. What could the Environmental Justice Community use the designated funds for?  Legal  work, experts, educational activities?

III.       Permitting.

1. What should be a business’s or facilities responsibility or notifying the community that a permit will be applied for in the community, and when should that notice occur?
2. Should an environmental “burden” assessment be conducted in the effected community?  If yes, what should be included in the assessment of the community’s burden prior to permitting process?
3. If a community is defined as an Environmental Justice Community what resources should be provided to the local residents/group to enable them to participate fully?
4. Should there be an independent Environmental Justice ombudsman position established in Ohio?  What should be an ombudsman’s responsibilities?

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