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On October 27, EPA released its Environmental Justice 2020 Action Agenda intended to “further integrate environmental justice considerations in all of the Agency’s programs, strengthen EPA’s collaboration with partners, and demonstrate progress on significant national challenges facing minority and low-income communities.” For drinking water, environmental justice considerations have been a consistent theme in the development of regulations for contaminants that may have a disproportionate impact on underserved communities. Such considerations have gained particular attention in the wake of the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan and are sure to be a focus in the development of revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule to be proposed in 2017.