For further information or to schedule an EMR at your
facility, please contact your EPA Federal
Facilities Program Manager:
Federal Facility Program Managers
Anne H. Fenn
US EPA Region I
One Congress St.-Suite 1100
Mail: SPP
Boston, MA 02114-2023
Tel: 617-981-1805
Fax: 617-918-1810
fenn.anne(5)epa.gov
Bill Arguto
US EPA Region III
1650 Archer Street
Philadelphia, PA 19603
Tel: 215-814-3367
Fax: 215-814-2783
arguto.williamfffljepa.gov
Lee Regner
US EPA Region V
77 West Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
Tel: 312-353-6478
Fax: 312-353-5374
regner.leefajepa.gov
Diana Jackson
US EPA Region VII
901 N. 5th St.
Kansas City, KS 66101
Tel: 913-551-7744
Fax: 913-551-9744
iackson.dianafajepa.gov
Larry Woods
US EPA Region IX
75 Hawthorne St., CMD-2
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: 415-972-3857
Fax: 415-947-8026
woods.larrvfffljepagov
US EPA Region II
290 Broadway-21st floor
New York, NY 10007
Tel: 212-637-4083
fax: 212-637-4086
malone.kathleenfaiepa.gov
David Hoylroyd
US EPA Region IV
61ForsythSt, SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Tel: 404-562-9625
Fax: 404-562-9598
holrovd.davidfaiepa. gov
Joyce Stubblefield
US EPA Region VI
1445 RossAve.
Dallas, TX 75202
Tel: 214-665-6430
Fax: 214-665-7446
stubblefield.iovcefaiepa.gov
Dianne Thiel
US EPA Region VIII
999 18th Street
Mail: 8P-P3T
Denver, CO 80202-2466
Tel: 303-312-6389
Fax: 303-312-6064
thiel.diannefajepa.gov
Michele Wright
US EPA Region X
1200 6th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-553-1747
Fax: 206-553-7176
wright.michelefffljepa. gov
Kathleen Malone
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
RESOURCE GUIDE
General
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a
system that helps a facility develop, implement, achieve,
and maintain a successful environmental policy. An
EMS is designed to help increase the efficiency of a
facility's processes, the efficiency of its environmental
program and increase its environmental credibility with
customers, government and communities. Executive
Order (EO) 13148 stipulates that by 31 December, 2005
all federal facilities will have implemented an
Environmental Management System (EMS). The goal of
this document is to help federal facilities interested in
developing their EMS by organizing available
information in a clear and simple manner.
Regulation requiring EMSs for Federal Facilities
As stated earlier EO 13148 Greening the Government
Through Leadership in Environmental Management,
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requires all Federal Facilities to implement an EMS by
31 December, 2005. Other requirements and deadlines
are also outlined in this document.
It can be accessed on the web at:
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/cfa/eol3148.htm
Useful guides for developing an EMS
Different institutions and organizations and companies
have developed guides that can help in implementing
EMSs, hereafter are a few important ones:
The EPA has developed the Code of Environmental
Management Principles for Federal Agencies (CEMP) in
response to EO 12856. This code is "a collection of 5
broad principles and underlying performance objectives
that provide a basis for Federal Agencies to move toward
responsible environmental management". The
Implementation Guide For The Code of Environmental
Management Principles for Federal Agencies is available
at: http://es.epa.gov/oeca/cemp/cpgchl.pdf
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
has also developed ISO 14001 Environmental
management systems - Specification with guidance for
This document can be found at:
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage, (the
standard is available for a fee.)
The Office of Environmental Policy & Assistance of the
U.S. Department of Energy has prepared an
Environmental Management Systems Primer for Federal
Facilities avaikble at:
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/emsprimer.pdf
Glover Stapleton Associates have prepared a useful
document called An Implementation Guide for Small
and Medium-Sized Organizations. It can be consulted at:
http://www.epa. gov/OWM/pdfs/ems2001 final.pdf
https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/Search
The Environmental Protection agency, the Office of
Policy, Economics, and Innovation has posted a web
page that contains links to key information about EPA's
efforts to develop policies and related materials about
environmental management systems (EMS).
http://www.epa.gov/ems/index.htm
Note 1: Thanks to its conciseness and quality of ISO, the ISO
14001 norm appears to have become the best known reference
for facilities developing an EMS.
Major Federal Institutions such as the US Army have presently
instructed their facilities to use Hiis norm, others such as the
Navy site it as an approved source.
Note 2: A document entitled Revised Environmental
Management Review Policy and Guidance for Federal
Facilities, shows a table (page 4) relating chapters of the
CEMP with the corresponding chapters of the ISO 14001. This
document can be found at:
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/policy/emr43001.pdf
Useful Software
In addition to paper or electronic guides, some
environmental companies have developed software that
can help a facility to implement an EMS. These
programs are very often based on the ISO 14001.
Companies such as Greenware, Tetratech, and Isys
International have developed such programs but
numerous other companies offer their services and
advertise on the internet.
Assistance from EPA: The Environmental
Management Reviews (EMR)
As part of its drive to help facilities develop their EMSs,
the EPA has made a compliance assistance tool available
to them called an EMR. An EMR is a free service that is
requested by a facility on a voluntary basis and that
allows it to benefit from EPA's regulatory and technical
expertise in a collaborative spirit. An EMR is not an
environmental audit, but will help a facility's
environmental program succeed.
developing an EMS. An EMR is performed by a team of
experts, who visit a facility to conduct the evaluation.
The EMR team examines the facility's environmental
documentation to understand how the management
system is designed. Then, they interview the facility's
personnel to understand how the EMS actually works in
practice. Team members next evaluate what they have
observed by comparing it to one of the EPA recognized
EMS guidelines. For example, the Generic Protocol for
Conducting Environmental Audits at Federal Facilities
examines seven criteria, which are:
. Organizational Structure;
. Environmental Commitment;
. Formality of Environmental Programs;
. Internal and External Communications;
. Staff Resources, Training, and Development;
. Program Evaluation, Reporting, and Corrective
Action; and
. Environmental Planning and Risk Management.
EPA also recognizes the Code of Environmental
Management Principles for Federal Agencies (CEMP)
and the International Standard (ISO 14001) for
Environmental Management.
http://www.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/policy/emr43001.pdf
Feedback
Information about EMRs conducted at federal facilities
and case studies are avaikble on the web at:
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/complian/complian.html
The Department of Defense has a very informative
environmental web site called the Defense
Environmental Network and Information Exchange
system (DENIX). The Site has a search engine and if
you use EMS as your search criteria the site will proved
access to many interesting and pertinent EMS
documents.
A brochure with more detail is available on the web at:
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/fedfac/complian/emrbrofimas.pdf
This brochure also lists the points of contact for each
EPA region for facilities interested in this service. These
contacts are also able to obtain information on facilities
which have already had an EMR carried out as well as
answer questions on the use of guides and software for
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