1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cumulative Impacts Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) All Americans, regardless of income, race, ethnicity, color, national origin, gender, or sexual identity, deserve to live in clean and healthy communities free from the burdens of environmental pollution and degradation. (2) Communities of color and lower-income communities have historically been subjected to disproportionate amounts of air, water, and soil pollution, including pollution from numerous and concentrated industrial, commercial, and governmental facilities located in those communities. (3) As a result, residents of these overburdened communities have suffered from increased adverse health risks, including asthma, cancer, elevated blood lead levels, respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular disease, and developmental disorders. Children are most vulnerable to the effects of pollution and can suffer lifelong consequences. The adverse effects of pollution harm the well-being and stability of these communities and their residents. (4) These disproportionate burdens have been the consequence of policy decisions at all levels of government over many years, and government now has the responsibility and moral imperative to correct these injustices. (5) No community should bear a disproportionate share of the adverse environmental and public health impacts of pollution caused by economic or any other activity. (6) Overburdened communities should be empowered legally and politically to participate in any decision to allow additional facilities which by their nature increase environmental and public health stressors to locate in their communities. (7) It is in the public interest to limit the future placement and expansion of such facilities in overburdened communities. (8) The burden of proof that a proposed action will not harm communities should fall on polluting industries and on the Federal Government in its regulatory role, not the communities themselves. (9) Pollutants currently