Achieving Environmental Compliance. Volume 1. Measuring Environmental Compliance

摘要

The Department of Defense, like all Federal agencies, must comply with Federal,state, and local environmental laws and regulations. However, achieving environmental compliance has proved an elusive goal for DoD. The number of notices of violation of the four major environmental laws issued to the DoD by Federal, state, and local environmental regulators increased from about 140 in FY83, to 626in FY89, the last year for which violations have yet been counted. All of those violations were the result of current environmental practices, not citations for cleanups from past practices. While the recent number of notices of