; (C) materially alter the budgetary impact of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof; or (D) raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal mandates, the President’s priorities, or the general principles of regulation customarily practiced by the executive branch. (6) Social equity impact The term social equity impact means any impact of a proposed rule, whether intended or unintended, that might reasonably be expected to disproportionately affect a population of interested persons that is part of a protected class or set of protected classes, based on the rules’s plain language, stated intention, and based on credible statistical projections and data on the impacts of similar rules, laws, and policies. (7) Social equity assessment The term social equity assessment means a written and publicly available report that shall specifically consider any social equity impact, positive or negative, that the proposed policy might have on a population of interested persons who share a common characteristic that renders them part of a protected class, where that population was previously subjected to discriminatory or exclusionary practices by the agency promulgating the rule or where credible demographic evidence demonstrates significant disparities experienced by different populations within a protected class.