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Overview
PMC Environmental Compliance Management Improvement Initiative
PMC Report Recommendations DOE Implementation Plan
PMC Report
Identifies 4 major Root Causes
Provides 54 Recommendations Includes requirements for Agency Implementation Plan
Root Causes
1. Top Leadership Commitment: Leadership needs to demonstrate a clearer and more sustained commitment to achieve and maintain compliance. 2. Clear Responsibilities & Accountability: Roles and responsibilities related to envtl performance can be more adequately defined and/or monitored; management procedures to address compliance issues need to be more robust.
Recommendations address
policy planning support mechanisms accountability monitoring and follow-up
Role of EMS
Where agencies, organizations or facilities have or are developing an environmental management system, the recommendations should be reflected in that environmental management system.
(PMC Report, page 2)
Crosswalk
Discusses each recommendation Details the DOE policies and actions which already address the recommendation.
Example (DRAFT)
Compliance Audits
Action: identify current DOE practices regarding compliance audits collect data from programs and sites on frequency, protocols, corrective action tracking, etc Action: identify improvements based on data collected
Example (DRAFT)
Budget process
Action: sites review recent NOVs and determine whether inadequate funding is a root cause Action: explore altering the current budget formulation process to include explicit discussion of funding for ES&H activities Action: explore opportunities to better address environmental compliance in DOE budget planning
March 15 final WG meeting on proposed Plan. April 1 Plan submitted by DOE Agency Environmental Executive
Summary
Need your support at the Headquarters and Field level to meet IP commitments Ensure that regulatory compliance is included in your site EMS Want to show demonstrable improvement in DOE regulatory compliance We want to share DOE success stories and lessons learned with other Federal agencies