38591.4.
(a) The state board shall conduct a comprehensive health analysis in conjunction with the development of each update of the scoping plan developed pursuant to Section 38561, beginning with the update to be adopted by the state board in 2022, and integrate the health analysis into the development of the scoping plan. The state board shall develop the comprehensive health analysis in collaboration with the State Department of Public Health and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and other agencies as appropriate.(b) (1) The comprehensive health analysis shall include a framework to provide an overview of the breadth of health impacts and health benefits that may accrue from the outcomes in the scoping plan. The framework shall include, but not be limited to, a consideration of the key factors impacting health described in subparagraphs (D) through (G), inclusive, of paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 131019.5.
(2) The comprehensive health analysis shall provide at a minimum a qualitative assessment of the potential health and health equity impacts, including health risks and health benefits of the outcomes specified in the scoping plan. The analysis shall examine the full range of health impacts, outcomes, and benefits that might foreseeably be associated with implementation of the scoping plan, including those associated with changes in the physical, social, and economic environments and conditions in which people live, work, learn, and play.
(3) Where the qualitative assessment identifies the potential for nontrivial health impacts, more quantitative assessment shall be conducted to the extent feasible, to better understand the magnitude of impacts, and shall provide quantitative effect measurements or projections where possible.
(c) The state board shall identify specific areas in which tools and methodologies are currently unavailable to provide credible quantitative analysis of health impacts and shall identify strategies to fill those gaps.
(d) The state board shall afford the public and impacted communities opportunities to provide meaningful input into and comment on all aspects of the comprehensive health analysis, including through public workshops, incorporation of draft health analysis in draft scoping plan documents, and in an annual report to the state board.