Inflation Reduction Act Disadvantaged Communities Map
The Environmental and Climate Justice Program (ECJ Program), created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), provides funding for financial and technical assistance to carry out environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities.
EPA has created the EPA Disadvantaged Community Environmental and Climate Justice Program map to assist potential applicants seeking to identify whether a community is disadvantaged for the purposes of implementing the ECJ Program.
The EPA Disadvantaged Communities Environmental and Climate Justice program map includes the following components:
- EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities 1.0 map
- EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities 2.0 map
- Any area of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the U.S. Virgin Islands
Click here to see the map that identifies the geographically defined disadvantaged communities for the Community Change Grant Program (CCGP) Notice of Funding Opportunity. For CCGP applicants, please note this map merges versions 1.0 and 2.0 of the EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities Map. New applicants should use this map to identify and describe disadvantaged communities per Appendix A of the NOFO.
The EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities maps combines multiple datasets that individually can be used to determine whether a community is disadvantaged for the purposes of implementing programs under the IRA. All data sets are assigned values at the Census block group level.
The criteria and associated datasets used in the maps are:
- Any census tract that is included as disadvantaged in the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST)
- Any census block group at or above the 90th percentile for any of EJScreen’s Supplemental Indexes when compared to the nation or state,
- and/or any of the following geographic areas within the Tribal lands category in EJScreen:
- Alaska Native Allotments
- Alaska Native Villages
- American Indian Reservations
- American Indian Off-reservation Trust Lands
- Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas
The EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities 1.0 map uses data from EJScreen version 2.2.
The EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities 2.0 map uses data from EJScreen version 2.3.
To further assist applicants, EPA has provided the underlying data for the map in the following formats and additional resources
- Both .csv and .gbd files datasets for the maps can be found on the EPA IRA ftp site
- Click here for feature service of the EPA Disadvantaged Community Environmental and Climate Justice Program map
- Click here for feature service of the EPA IRA Disadvantaged Communities 1.0 map
- Click here for technical documentation associated with the maps