The following document is available in Adobe Acrobat format. Four separate zip files are also available for the Generic Protocol for Conducting Environmental Audits of Federal Facilities document. Click the appropriate zip files.
Material is intended to assist in conducting environmental audits and environmental assessments.
Included in two volumes, Volume I contains Phase 1 and Volume II contains Phases 2 and 3. Volume I emphasizes compliance with federal environmental requirements, both regulatory and non-regulatory. Volume II provides detailed procedures for environmental management system audits of facility-specific programs and overall programs managed at an agency's headquarters. The protocol manual is set up to support a wide range of environmental auditing programs from recently developed to mature audit programs. Phases 2 and 3 of this manual are for federal agencies that have already developed a basic compliance program and desire to assess the management effectiveness of individual environmental programs or entire facilities or agencies.