EP 1110-3-8
9 Apr 04
(d) Lead agency responsible for the FUDS property.
g. Section 3. Community Background. This section is usually divided into five parts, as
follows:
(1) Community Profile, which describes the community (setting, population/growth,
minorities, businesses, nearby regional centers, residential groupings, school system) and
analyzes key local issues and interests, including the need for translation services, whether a
second language for non-English-speaking residents or signing for the hearing impaired.
(2) History of Community Involvement, which should identify how the community has
reacted to the FUDS property in the past. Specifically, the following questions need to be
addressed in this section. What actions, if any, has the public taken to resolve problems at the
FUDS property? How did the public view previous response actions at the FUDS property?
How does the public perceive various levels of the government's involvement at the FUDS
property? Are PRPs associated with the FUDS property or past operations at the FUDS
property?
(3) Key Community Concerns, which should analyze the major public concerns regarding
the FUDS property, as well as the remedial or removal response actions proposed to deal with
those concerns. Throughout the Community Background section, but especially in the analysis of
community concerns, the focus should be on community perceptions of the events and problems
at the FUDS property, not on the technical history of the FUDS property. This section will
contain much of the information obtained during the community interviews.
(4) Response to Community Concerns, which discusses any community involvement
activities USACE undertook in direct response to community concerns before the Public
Involvement Plan was prepared.
(5) Summary of Communication Needs, which briefly summarizes communication needs
and desires as identified by the community members interviewed.
h. Section 4. This section begins with a brief introductory narrative which states the
overall goal of USACE's public involvement program, affirms that USACE will implement the
community involvement activities to be discussed, and notes that the following plan is based on
the community interviews described earlier and that it addresses each issue that was identified as
being important to the community. The remainder of the section consists of two parts, as
follows:
(1) The Plan. Each issue that was identified during the community interviews is addressed
here. The issue is stated first, then the activity (or activities) intended to address the issue is
presented. Following this, the objective of the activity, the method to be employed to achieve
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