The vast majority of structural components have notches that locally concentrate stresses around their tips. The notch sensitivity factor q, widely used to quantify the effect of such notches on fatigue, can be associated with the generation of non-propagating cracks at the notch tips in fatigue tests when SL(R)/Kt < σn < SL(R)/Kf, where SL(R) is the fatigue limit of the material at a given R = σmin/σmax ratio; Kt = σmax/σn is the stress concentration factor (SCF) of the notch; σn is the amplitude of the nominal stress that loads it; σmax is the maximum stress at the notch tip; and Kf = 1 + q(Kt – 1) is the (effective) fatigue SCF, which quantifies the actual notch effect on the fatigue strength of the notched component. Based on this behavior, a model was recently developed to calculate q considering the influence of the stress gradient ahead of the notch tip on the fatigue behavior of mechanically short cracks, using only proper stress analysis techniques and the basic fatigue properties of the material, its fatigue limit and long crack propagation threshold. This model, whose predictions were validated by various appropriated experiments, considers the entire notch geometry and loading characteristics on q, without the need of any data-fitting parameter. In this study, this criterion is extend to properly treat environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) problems considering stress analysis issues. The corrosion effects are quantified by the material resistance to EAC, SEAC, and by its crack propagation threshold under EAC conditions, KIEAC, both measured in the aggressive environment in question. This model in particular predicts the existence of a notch sensitivity qc in EAC problems as well, when SEAC/Kt < σmax < SEAC/[1 + qc(Kt - 1)], which can be mechanically quantified by techniques analogous to those successfully used to quantify q in fatigue. To experimentally prove the validity of this model under EAC conditions, the pair material/aggressive medium chosen is an annealed 2024 Al alloy and Ga at 35oC, due to its very fast EAC reaction, which allows its basic properties, SEAC and KIEAC, to be quickly determined. Using only the mechanics proposed in this new model and the basic material resistances to EAC, 8 notched test specimens were designed to reach and survive to maxima stresses at the tip of their notches twice as large as SEAC. The model predicts that this is possible due to the interaction of the stress gradient ahead of the notch tip with the small crack initiated there, which is non-propagating under such conditions. Since none of the specimens failed in the designed tests, it can be concluded that they support the effectiveness of the model, which may thus be quite useful as a mechanical tool to treat notch effects in EAC problems.