Requires the department of health to identify highly impacted communities in this state and to consider, at a minimum, areas that have certain characteristics.

Requires the department of ecology to provide notice to persons residing in a highly impacted community when initiating a review of an environmental permit application for issuance or reissuance for a facility or multiple facilities within or near a highly impacted community and when initiating development of a remedial action or the review of a proposed remedial action within or near a highly impacted community.