{"title":"EPA update: EPA's code of environmental management principles (CEMP) for federal agencies: An ems framework for the federal sector","authors":"Craig Hooks","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330080113","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330080113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"121-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330080113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87109028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Armstrong, James R. McDermott, J. Douglas Ripley
{"title":"The U.S. Air force embraces ecosystem management through a landscape assessment in the front range of the rocky mountains","authors":"John Armstrong, James R. McDermott, J. Douglas Ripley","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ffej.3330110312","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through a cooperative partnership of several government agencies, conservation organizations, and interested private citizens, the Air Force Academy is working in cooperation with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program to complete a landscape analysis of a portion of the Colorado Front Range. The project area includes the Monument Creek Watershed, comprising all Air Force Academy lands and surrounding lands of the Rampart Range, from the confluence of Monument Creek at Fountain Creek north to the Palmer Divide and from the Rampart Range Road east to the Monument Creek watershed boundary. Desired future conditions as well as management strategies to achieve them will be developed through this collaborative partnership planning process. When completed in 2001, the results of this project will represent an important contribution to Air Force and Department of Defense continuing efforts to implement ecosystem-based natural and cultural resources management strategies on military lands.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 3","pages":"125-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91856238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should EPA's practice of “overfiling” continue?","authors":"Gerald H. Yamada","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110211","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330110211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article evaluates the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) practice of “overfiling” state enforcement actions. The foundation for “authorized” state environmental programs is to administer and enforce those programs under a federal-state partnership. “Authorized” states should have discretion and flexibility in permit and enforcement decisions. “Overfiling” as a form of EPA enforcement oversight of a state's exercise of discretion erodes the trust upon which an effective federal-state partnership depends. One U.S. Court of Appeals has found that EPA lacks the authority to “overfile” an “authorized” state's enforcement case.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 2","pages":"103-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80673285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward protection of the marine environment: Uniform national discharge standards for military vessels","authors":"Jonathan P. Deason, Craig A. Corl","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330080207","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330080207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>On February 10, 1996, President Clinton signed into law a new mechanism for controlling discharges from military vessels. Section 325 of the 1996 Defense Authorization Act requires that Uniform National Discharge Standards(UNDS) be developed for vessels of the armed forces. The three primarily responsible agencies (Navy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Coast Guard) recently have undertaken a process to implement the new statute. Since the implementation process will determine the manner in which control of discharges from all U.S. military vessels will change over the next few years, it is a key activity in terms of protecting the quality of our marine environment. Information on the implementation process may assist state representatives, stakeholders and others in achieving more effective participation in it. The process also will guide major new environmental investments necessary to meet the evolving requirements and thus may be of interest to a variety of environmental contractors.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"8 2","pages":"49-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330080207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80694511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A transition to mission-based environmental stewardship of natural and cultural resources in the United States air force","authors":"Thomas H. Lillie, J. Jerome Montague","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330090303","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330090303","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Failure to comply with conservation laws can directly impact military training by limiting or delaying access to training areas because of potential impacts to archaeological sites, endangered species, or other resources. In the late 1980s, the United States Air Force adopted a compliance-based approach for managing its environmental program. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations became the basis for prioritizing and funding proposed activities including conservation. The annual environmental budget increased and the number of unresolved regulatory enforcement actions dropped significantly during the 1990s. The compliance-based approach was designed to respond to laws that specify deadlines or quantitative standards and impose some type of enforcement action for failure to comply. An inherent weakness in the approach is that programs must be faced with noncompliance or the threat of legal action to compete for funding. Conservation laws that address stewardship of natural and cultural resources rarely specify deadlines, quantitative standards, or monitoring for compliance. Therefore, installation commanders have limited flexibility to develop a long-term stewardship program that supports Air Force readiness training through ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. The purpose of this article is to present and discuss a mission-based approach to environmental stewardship of natural and cultural resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"9 3","pages":"7-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330090303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88511715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective NEPA implementation: The facilitated approach","authors":"Judith Landry Lee, Stephen Russell","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330090311","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330090311","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) allows applicants, states, and contractors to prepare environmental assessments (EAs) and environmental impact statements (EISs). However, under all circumstances, the federal official is held fully accountable for the scope, objectivity, content, and accuracy of the NEPA analyses and documents prepared for the agency by others. The commonly used paradigm for contracting requires contractors to conduct the analyses and prepare the documents, with federal involvement primarily limited to review and comment of partially completed deliverables. This approach results in contractors fulfilling inherently governmental responsibilities and often causing conflict, frustration, higher costs, longer execution time, and alternatives which may not meet mission objectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"9 3","pages":"89-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330090311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88646818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normalizing federal land transfers: A new tool for base reuse","authors":"Raymond Takashi Swenson","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330080205","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330080205","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article continues a dialogue on early transfers of title under authority of Section 334 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, which was analyzed in the Spring 1997 issue of the Journal by Barry P. Steinberg and Jennifer L. Peper. Colonel Swenson represents the Redevelopment Agency (RDA) of Tooele City, Utah, which is currently negotiating an Economic Development Conveyance of 1700 acres from Tooele Army Depot, the first use of Section 334 in the United States. Section 334 amended Section 120 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S. Code §9620, which governs federal agency compliance with CERCLA and federal land transfers. The article places Section 334 in the context of Section 120 development, examines the benefits Section 334 is hoped to produce for the Tooele RDA, and responds to concerns that have been raised about the use of Section 334 by environmental regulatory agencies and the authors of the previous article.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"8 2","pages":"31-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330080205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88805581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community involvement in the defense department installation restoration program","authors":"J. I. Bregman","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330090210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ffej.3330090210","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As its major form of community involvement in its Installation Restoration Program (IRP), the Department of Defense (DOD) created Restoration Advisory Boards (RABs). These RABs serve the purpose of providing citizen input into DOD's cleanup approaches to abandoned hazardous waste situations at its various installations. At first, this approach applied only to installations slated for closure, but now it has been applied to all installations. This article covers such factors as the history of RABs, their mission and locations and the good and not-so-good results of their use. Recommendations are presented for possible improvements.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"9 2","pages":"87-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330090210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92336359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}