The EPA maintains public dockets on Superfund sites at the regional office responsible for the site. These programs focus on cleanup of contamination associated with past DLA, Air Force or Army Air Corps activities. The Air Force has enthusiastically supported the development of TERC which has shown acceleration of project completion and overall cost reduction from earlier estimates. The Installation Restoration Program represents one of the four pillars of the Army Environmental Strategy. Compliance deals with procedural or construction actions which installations must take to comply with air, drinking water, waste water, and solid waste laws and regulations.
Pollution prevention is a growing program, which seeks ways to avoid creating wastes.
The focus is to use only the amount of hazardous material needed to complete a particular task, find an alternate material which is not hazardous, or find a means to recycle hazardous materials. All pillars are linked to each other and to the military training mission of the installations. The Corps assists each agency in implementing its program on time and within budget. While relying on the private sector to accomplish the ESFO work, the Corps provides the federal presence and oversight to protect the agency investment. The ESFO Program is funded by each agency and executed through an interagency agreement.