Federal Facilities Environmental Journal最新文献

{"title":"Interview with Dr. Theodore Prociv, President, Versar, Inc.","authors":"Michael A. West","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110203","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330110203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 2","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72634024","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":"ISO 14000 and the CEMP: Either, neither, or both for federal agencies?","authors":"E. Rebecca Patton","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330080208","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330080208","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Strategies for successfully managing environmental programs have been evolving during the last decade. As environmental programs have matured, the management strategies have moved from a regulation-based, compliance-driven, command-and-control basis to an environmental stewardship process heavily dependent on voluntary participation. This shift is viewed by many organizations as a benchmark for measuring the success of their environmental programs, and has led more than one group to develop standards that address what a “good” environmental management program ought to aspire to.</p><p>The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a worldwide federation of roughly 90 standards-setting bodies, forms technical committees (TCs) to develop international standards designed to facilitate trade. They chartered TC207 in 1993 to develop the ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards. ISO 14000 gained final approval in late 1996. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was tasked in Executive Order 12856 of August 1993 with establishing a Federal Government Environmental Challenge Program, designed to recognize and reward outstanding environmental management performance in federal agencies and facilities. This is similar to the Environmental Leadership program proposed earlier in 1993 by EPA's Office of Enforcement. The program consists of three components which challenge federal agencies to:</p><p>• Agree to a Code of Environmental Management Principles (CEMP);</p><p>• Submit applications to EPA to recognize individual federal facilities as “Model Installations”;</p><p>• Encourage individual federal employees to demonstrate outstanding leadership in pollution prevention.</p><p>This article compares the ISO 1400 series standard with the CEMP and looks at how each answers three major questions facing federal agency environmental managers:</p><p>1. Will the standards help the agency maintain compliance with regulations?</p><p>2. What effects, if any, will implementing the standards have on operations?</p><p>3. Will the costs associated with implementation justify the benefits?</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"8 2","pages":"61-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330080208","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97029875","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":"DOE initiatives: Focusing on the DOE's office of science & technology","authors":"Alvin L. Alm","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330080213","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330080213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"8 2","pages":"139-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330080213","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"105035717","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":"You know your environmental contractor is out of control when …","authors":"David L. Hippensteel","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330080203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ffej.3330080203","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Far too often private industry is caught in situations where they become responsible for environmental characterization and remediation projects. The processes involved in successfully completing such tasks may be foreign to the responsible industry. In such cases, an environmental contractor is hired to perform the necessary work. While many environmental contractors claim a high level of ethics and customer orientation, the very essence of their jobs should make the responsible industrial client wary. Far too often, environmental characterizations and remediations become too drawn out and costly. Far too often, environmental contractors need “just a little more data” to complete otherwise simple tasks. To guard against the phenomenon of “never-ending environmental work,” responsible industrial clients that do not have environmental expertise on their staff would do well to retain a senior level independent environmental contractor to watch out for the best interests of the responsible industry. While the hiring of a contractor to watch a contractor may seem redundant and cost inefficient, the truth of the matter is the exact opposite. By bringing in an expert in environmental characterization and remediation, the responsible industrial client essentially hires another technical employee. It is best to hire this person as a member of the company to avoid additional overhead costs. If such an “environmental guardian” cannot be hired or found, then the responsible industrial client must learn to recognize the warning signs of an environmental characterization or remediation project that is out of control and should be stopped and regrouped. These warning signs become more apparent as time goes on (and money is spent). Having an experienced independent environment contractor “look over the shoulder” of another contractor is just good business sense. One could say that it is the “Potentially Responsible Party's” (PRP's) right to a second opinion.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"8 2","pages":"9-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330080203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137507711","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":"HWAC industry. HWAC — Preparing for the future","authors":"Daniel E. Kennedy Jr.","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330090314","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330090314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"9 3","pages":"129-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330090314","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"98379841","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":"Department of the navy. Spring update","authors":"Paul J. Yaroschak","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110110","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330110110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"117-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"112328777","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":"EPA update. EPA's new guidance: Institutional controls and transfer of real property under CERCLA section 120(H)(3)(A)(B) OR (C)","authors":"Allison Abernathy","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110111","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ffej.3330110111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"123-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77262389","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":"Making NEPA more effective and economical for the new millennium","authors":"Roger P. Hansen,&nbsp;Theodore A. Wolff","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ffej.3330110307","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article focuses on a ten-element strategy for “streamlining” the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process in order to achieve the Act's objectives while easing the considerable burden on agencies, the public, and the judicial system. In other words, this article proposes a strategy for making NEPA work better and cost less. How these ten elements are timed and implemented is critical to any successful streamlining.</p><p>The strategy elements discussed in this paper, in no particular order of priority, are as follows: (1) integrate the NEPA process with other environmental compliance and review procedures; (2) accelerate the decision time for determining the appropriate level of NEPA documentation; (3) conduct early and thorough internal environmental impact statement (EIS) (or environmental assessment [EA]) scoping before public scoping or other public participation begins; (4) organize and implement public scoping processes that are more participatory than confrontational; (5) maintain an up-to-date compendium of environmental “baseline” information; (6) prepare more comprehensive, broad-scope “umbrella” EISs that can be used effectively for tiering; (7) encourage preparation of annotated outlines with detailed guidance that serve as a “road map” for preparation of each EIS or EA; (8) decrease the length and complexity of highly technical portions of NEPA documents; (9) increase and systematize NEPA compliance outreach, training, and organizational support; and (10) work diligently to influence the preparation of better organized, shorter, and more readable NEPA documents.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 3","pages":"61-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91564294","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":"The department of defense's proposed range rule","authors":"Joseph M. Murphy Jr.,&nbsp;Jeffrey H. Waugh","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330090205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ffej.3330090205","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The management of munitions and unexploded ordnance (UXO) and associated regulatory requirements on ranges are of paramount importance to the Department of Defense (DOD). This article will summarize the key provisions of the proposed range rule as published in the Federal Register on September 26, 1997 and its associated risk assessment methodology.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"9 2","pages":"29-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330090205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92319131","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":"Conformance with the ISO 14001 standard—results of gap analyses at selected department of the army installations","authors":"James D. Wood,&nbsp;Linda L. Baetz","doi":"10.1002/ffej.3330110208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ffej.3330110208","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on Department of Defense (DOD) policy guidance, the Department of the Army first adopted its Environmental Audit Program in 1985. Effective October 1991, the Army Environmental Audit Program was revised and redesignated as the Environmental Compliance Assessment System (ECAS) Program. The ECAS audits began to evaluate the installation's overall Environmental Program Management (EPM) and Environmental Management Systems (EMSs). The purpose of the EPM/EMS aspect of ECAS audits was to determine more systematic “root causes” for observed compliance problems. With the adoption of the ISO 14001 standard, the EPM/EMS portion of the ECAS protocol was revised to more closely mirror that standard.</p><p>DOD has initiated a two-year pilot effort to evaluate the feasibility of ISO 14001 implementation at selected DOD installations. This DOD pilot program focuses both on implementation costs and on increased efficiency associated with more effective integration of installation-level EMS.</p><p>In anticipation of a favorable endorsement of the ISO 14001 framework for installation-EMS, several Army installations have begun to perform their own gap analyses to determine their conformance to the various parts of the standard. This article describes the results of EMS audits (gap analyses) at nine Army installations. Major nonconformances observed at each installation and corrective actions are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100523,"journal":{"name":"Federal Facilities Environmental Journal","volume":"11 2","pages":"65-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ffej.3330110208","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92336355","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}