Development of an Effectiveness Model or Metric for the Air Force Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ECAMP).

摘要

The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Air Force (AF) are committed to being national leaders in protecting and enhancing the environment and achieving environmental compliance. This commitment is exemplified by the Air Force Chief of Staff's goal of no notices of violation (NOVs). However, the number of AF NOVs from 1990-1992 rose from 103 to 178 an increase of 73 percent. A July 1992 AF Inspector General Report also concluded that Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ECAMP) findings were not being effectively utilized by the Major Commands (MAJCOM). To aid AF leaders in solving these problems, and protecting and enhancing the environment, this research developed a methodology to standardize and use ECAMP findings along with historical NOV data, to assist decision-makers in identifying the installations that require resource allocation to prevent future environmental problems and improve environmental compliance. The ECAMP Effectiveness Model developed in this research provides managers with a quick and easy, visual indication of an installation's relative ECAMP effectiveness. Based on these research findings, it was recommended to that Air Staff and MAJCOM environmental leaders review the research results and adopt the proposed model as a metric to measure ECAMP effectiveness. Environmental auditing, Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ECAMP), Environmental management, Environmental compliance, Environmental metrics.