# FACILITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS) 

ANNUAL REPORT QUESTIONS FOR REPORTING YEAR 2006

For reporting year 2006, appropriate facility information collected
should reflect facility level EMS implementation progress, performance
and successes during one of three time frames to be identified by each
reporting agency:

1\) Fiscal year 2006, October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006;

2\) Abbreviated fiscal year, defined as the nine months between the
close of the last annual report and September 30, 2006; or

3\) Calendar year 2006, January 2006 to December 2006.

(Note: These metrics will be used for reporting years 2006 to 2008 -
future reports will reflect progress, performance and successes during
[fiscal year]{.underline} 2007 and 2008.)

Each agency will be requested to provide a summary of this information
for its appropriate facilities.

I. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SCORECARD METRICS

II\. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS QUESTIONS

III\. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EXPERIENCES FEEDBACK

I. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SCORECARD METRICS

Instructions for Questions 1-7: For each topic listed, please indicate
the one statement which best describes the status of your appropriate
facility EMS **[during this reporting period]{.underline}**. Responses
should not reflect activities that will occur during the next reporting
period. To ensure that summary data adequately reflects information from
your agency please respond to each question. Where a facility does not
respond to a question in this section, it will be scored as selecting
response "A."

1\. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS.

A. Significant environmental aspects were not identified during this
reporting period or previously.

B. Significant environmental aspects were identified during this
reporting period or previously; an established procedure was not used
for this process.

C. An established procedure was used to identify significant
environmental aspects during this reporting period or previously;
however, previously identified significant environmental aspects were
not reevaluated during this period.

D. Environmental aspects identified in a previous year were reevaluated
during this reporting period using an established procedure and updated
(added/deleted/modified) as appropriate.

2\. GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND TARGETS.

A. Measurable environmental goals, objectives, and targets were not
identified, reviewed, and updated as appropriate during this reporting
period.

B. Measurable environmental goals, objectives, and targets were
identified, reviewed, and updated as appropriate; 0-49% of targets were
on schedule during this reporting period.

C. Measurable environmental goals, objectives, and targets were
identified, reviewed, and updated as appropriate; 50-79% of targets were
on schedule during this reporting period.

D. Measurable environmental goals, objectives, and targets were
identified, reviewed, and updated as appropriate; 80-100% of targets
were on schedule during this reporting period.

3\. OPERATIONAL CONTROLS.

A. Documented operational controls to address significant aspects
consistent with goals, objectives, and targets were not established
during this reporting period or previously.

B. Documented operational controls to address significant aspects
consistent with goals, objectives, and targets were established during
this reporting period or previously and have been partially implemented

C. Documented operational controls to address significant aspects
consistent with goals, objectives, and targets were established during
this reporting period or previously and are fully implemented.

D. During this reporting period, previously documented operational
controls to address significant aspects consistent with goals,
objectives, and targets were fully implemented; in addition, they were
reviewed during the year, and/or updated (i.e. supplemented, revised,
deleted) as appropriate.

4\. ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING. \[Note: These metrics pertain to competence
training for those whose tasks have the potential to cause significant
environmental impacts\]

A. Training requirements to ensure individual competence and
responsibility were not been identified during this reporting period or
previously.

B. Training requirements to ensure individual competence and
responsibility were identified during this reporting period or
previously but training was not available and/or carried out.

C. Training requirements to ensure individual competence and
responsibility were identified during this reporting period or
previously and training was available and carried out, and recorded
during this reporting period.

D. Training procedures were established to ensure that training
requirements for individual competence and responsibility were
identified; training was available and carried out during this reporting
period; training is recorded and tracked; and training requirements are
monitored, revised, and refresher training provided, as appropriate, to
maintain competence.

5\. CONTRACTS. \[Note: An appropriate contract is one whose actions may
have potential impact on the environmental aspects identified by the
applicable EMS. Appropriate contracts may include legal arrangements
with concessionaires.\]

A. Facility has not carried out a process to identify appropriate
contracts in which to include EMS requirements.

B. Facility has carried out a process to identify appropriate contracts,
but has not modified appropriate contracts to include EMS requirements.

C. All new and renewed appropriate contracts were in the process of
including EMS requirements during this reporting period; contractors
were required to fulfill defined roles and specified responsibilities.

D. EMS requirements were included in all appropriate contracts and
contractors fulfilled defined roles and specified responsibilities
during this reporting period.

6\. EMS AUDIT/EVALUATION PROCEDURES.

A. EMS audit/evaluation procedures were not established during this
reporting period or previously.

B. EMS audit/evaluation procedures were established during this
reporting period or previously but no audit was conducted during this
reporting period.

C. EMS audit/evaluation procedures were established during this
reporting period or previously; an audit was conducted during this
reporting period; nonconformities are not yet being addressed or
corrected.

D. EMS audit/evaluation procedures were established during this
reporting period or previously and an audit was conducted during this
reporting period; nonconformities are being were addressed or corrected.

DATE LATEST FACILITY-WIDE INTERNAL EMS AUDIT/EVALUATION WAS COMPLETED:
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7\. MANAGEMENT REVIEW.

A. Senior leadership review of the EMS was neither planned/scheduled nor
conducted during this reporting period.

B. Senior leadership review of the EMS was planned/scheduled, but was
not conducted during this reporting period

C. Senior leadership review of the EMS was conducted during the current
reporting period: recommendations for continual improvement were not
addressed by top management during this reporting period.

D. Senior leadership review of the EMS was conducted during this
reporting period and top management responded to recommendations for
continual improvement.

II\. QUESTIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS (SINCE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EMS)

1\. BENEFIT OF EMS ON THE FACILITY:

> Please estimate the effect of EMS since implementation on your
> facility or organization (where the EMS is implemented) with respect
> to:

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  1    Reduced risk to facility mission                                         1 2 3 4 5  

  2    Improved fiscal efficiency or cost avoidance                             1 2 3 4 5  

  3    Greater understanding of environmental issues at all levels of the       1 2 3 4 5  
       organization.                                                                       

  4    Greater empowerment of individuals to contribute to improving the        1 2 3 4 5  
       organization's environmental footprint                                              

  5    Greater integration of environment into organizational culture or        1 2 3 4 5  
       operations                                                                          

  6    Greater integration of environment into real property asset management   1 2 3 4 5  

  7    Improved community relations                                             1 2 3 4 5  

  8    Improved effectiveness in overall mission                                1 2 3 4 5  

  9    Improved cooperative conservation with other groups                      1 2 3 4 5  

  10   Other (specify)                                                          1 2 3 4 5  
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2\. BENEFIT OF EMS ON ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:

> Please estimate the effect of EMS (since implementation) on your
> facility's or organization's environmental issues to include:

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  1    Improved overall compliance management                                   1 2 3 4 5  

  2    Improved overall personnel health and safety                             1 2 3 4 5  

  3    Improved overall pollution prevention                                    1 2 3 4 5  

  4    Improved water quality                                                   1 2 3 4 5  

  5    Improved air quality                                                     1 2 3 4 5  

  6    Improved hazardous material management                                   1 2 3 4 5  

  7    Improved hazardous waste management                                      1 2 3 4 5  

  8    Improved solid waste management                                          1 2 3 4 5  

  9    Improved conservation of natural resources                               1 2 3 4 5  

  10   Improved conservation of energy in facilities                            1 2 3 4 5  

  11   Improved conservation of fuel in vehicles                                1 2 3 4 5  

  12   Improved conservation of water                                           1 2 3 4 5  

  13   Reduced number of permits needed to operate                              1 2 3 4 5  

  14   Other (specify)                                                          1 2 3 4 5  
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III\. QUESTIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EXPERIENCES

1\. EMS BENEFITS/SUCCESSES:

> Please provide up to 3 bullet statements identifying
> benefits/successes associated with EMS implementation at your
> facility.

2\. EMS BEST PRACTICES/LESSONS LEARNED:

> Please provide up to 3 bullet statements identifying EMS
> implementation best practices/lessons learned.

3\. EMS CHALLENGES:

> Please provide up to 3 bullet statements identifying EMS
> implementation challenges.

4\. EMS BENEFITS TO AGENCY MISSION:

> Please provide up to 3 bullet statements identifying how EMS
> implementation has enabled your organization or agency to operate more
> effectively in accomplishing its missions (e.g., reduced number of
> off-normal events that disrupt agency schedules or operations; greater
> interoperability among sites; better relations with host communities,
> states, and their elected representatives; greater speed and agility
> in responding to unexpected events; improved ability to write
> performance based contracts; etc.).