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Vantage to Pomona Heights Chapter 3 230 kV Transmission Line Project FEIS Affected Environment PAGE 3-239 3.10.3 Data Sources The data source for the EJ analysis of race and ethnicity used the 2010 Census National Summary File of Redistricting Data. Specifically, the dataset from Table P2, Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race, was used. The low-income analysis used Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data, Table P88, Ratio of Income to Poverty Level in 1999 and Table C17002 from the American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates from 2011-2013 Ratio of Income to Poverty Level. For both analyses, data for all Census Block Groups that are within three miles of the Action Alternatives (in full or in part) were extracted, tabulated, and analyzed. 3.10.4 Current Conditions and Trends, Regional Overview (Project Study Area/ Counties) 3.10.4.1 Minority Population In the three-mile radius Project study area, there are generally greater concentrations of the minority population of Latinos than in the state as a whole. Other minority groups are present to a lower degree than statewide or in the Project study area. The Latino population represented 32.7 percent of the total population in the four-county Project study area, compared to 11.2 percent statewide. There was a lower concentration of non-Latinos of “two or more races”, although the percentages of the totals are low (1.9 percent in the Project study area and 3.7 percent statewide). All other populations defined as minority (those other than White, consisting of Black or African American, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, some other race, or two or more races) are under-represented in the Project study area relative to statewide (U.S. Census 2010). The differences in nearby populations’ racial and ethnic characteristics among the Action Alternatives were minimal; of the nine Action Alternatives in the three-mile Project study area, four were exact duplicates; only five different distributions resulted (Alternatives A and F; B and E; C and G; D and H; and NNR Alternative – Manastash Ridge [MR] Subroute). The differences that did exist among most Action Alternatives, in terms of racial and ethnic distributions and averages, were very small. However, there was a lower percentage of minorities present in the NNR Alternative - MR Subroute compared to other Action Alternatives. These results are tabulated in Table 3.10-1. 3.10.4.2 Low-Income Population The Project study area has generally higher incidences of poverty than the statewide average. As shown in Table 3.10-2, data from the American Community Survey for 2013 show that Yakima County, in particular, had a relatively high incidence of poverty. Compared to the statewide average of 8.2 percent of persons living poverty, Yakima County had 22 percent, Grant County 20.3 percent, and Kittitas County had 19.4 percent. The Washington statewide average was 12.5 percent (U.S. Census 2013). Comparison of the poverty status of the population in the Project study area within three miles of the Action Alternatives and statewide conditions relies on 1999 data from the Census Bureau 2000 Census because poverty data at the Census Block Group level were not collected in the 2010 census of population. These data indicated higher proportions of persons living in poverty in the four-county region (Benton, Grant, Kittitas, and Yakima counties) as a whole than statewide in 1999, although Benton County had lower proportions of persons under the poverty level and under twice the poverty level than the Washington statewide average.