Environmental compliance assessments at several Corps of Engineers facilities: Not an end unto itself!
- Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, GA (United States)
The US Army Corps of Engineers uses a structured approach for assessing compliance at its hundreds of civil works facilities. The structure is provided through manuals, training, and written guidance. A team of trained individuals proficient in the 13 environmental focus areas or protocols visits the facilities. Using the checklist system, the environmental compliance assessment team (ECAT) can cover a tremendous range and number of facilities in their assessments/inspections. Facility types include power plants, navigation locks, recreation facilities, and maintenance yards operated by the Corps and/or Corps contractors. They also include leased area facilities, including state and regional parks, privately owned marinas and recreation areas, and special use sites such as a lakeside National Guard training area. One assessment cycle can include approximately 70 different facilities. Written notification of specific individual findings for each facility follows the assessment. This notification is accompanied by a fill-in-the-blank form that makes it simple for the facility to generate its own corrective action plan, the contents of which are then added to the database.
- OSTI ID:
- 500776
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9705100-; TRN: IM9732%%4
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 22. annual conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, Orlando, FL (United States), 19-23 May 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 22. annual conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals; Daugherty, J.R. [ed.] [NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO (United States)]; PB: 1118 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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