Environmental compliance audit handbook (ECAH): U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (revision). Final report

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:676017

Schell, D J

The numbers of environmental laws and regulations have continued to grow in the United States, making compliance with these regulations increasingly difficult. Environmental assessments became a way to determine operational consistency and compliance with current environmental regulations. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has adopted an environmental compliance program that identifies compliance problems before they are cited as violations by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Beginning in 1993, the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, in cooperation with FWS, began research on this handbook. The concept was to combine the Code of Federal Regulations with good management practices and risk-management issues into a series of checklists that show legal requirements and specific items of operations to review. This handbook is continually updated to address new environmental compliance laws and regulations.

• Research Organization: Army Construction Engineering Research Lab., Champaign, IL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 676017
• Report Number(s): AD-A--352746/XAB; USACERL-SR--96/60-REV; CNN: Contract MIPR-1A1448001095007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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