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Title: Virginias Regional Environmental Management System


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Virginias Regional EnvironmentalManagement
System
  • ECOS-DOD Compatible Use And Sustainability Task
    Group Meeting
  • March 19, 2006

Michael Murphy, Director Division of
Environmental Enhancement Virginia Department Of
Environmental Quality mpmurphy_at_deq.virginia.gov
2
What is the Virginia Regional EnvironmentalManage
ment System (V-REMS)?
  • A regional partnership of public, private, and
    community organizations in the greater Richmond,
    Virginia area
  • The V-REMS partnership focuses on
  • Addressing regional environmental priorities
  • Improving communication and trust between
    partners
  • Sharing environmental best practices
  • Sponsored by the Defense Supply Center Richmond
    (DLA facility) to promote sustainability

3

V-REMS Phases I and II
Phase II- Collective Targeting of Regional
Environmental Priorities
Phase I Formation, Communication, and EMS Best
Practices Sharing
Partnership has grown from 4 to over 30
organizations
4
Why was V-REMS developed?
  • Promote trust and support to solve regional
    environmental issues
  • Create partnering to address regional
    environmental issues
  • Improve information exchange and environmental
    best practices sharing
  • EMS targets environmental issues on-site REMS
    provides stakeholders with needed tools to
    address regional environmental, social, and
    economic issues
  • Tool designed to anticipate community challenges
    and promote proactive programs

5
DoD and Federal Facilities
Cities and Counties
Private Companies
Regulatory Agencies
6
How does the V-REMS partnership work?
  • Regular communication between partners
  • Monthly phone calls
  • 2-3 meetings annually
  • Sub-group calls to focus on specific initiatives
  • Intranet site to share data
  • Neutral facilitator sponsored by DSCR staffs
    partnership needs
  • Level of effort 4-5 hrs/month

7
Examples of Action Items from Recent V-REMS
Meeting
  • Apply for grant to study NOx-eating concrete
  • Hold sub-group call to discuss innovative energy
    efficiency approaches
  • Partners will explore E85 fueling station options
    in Richmond area
  • Hold sub-group call to discuss EMS challenges and
    solutions

8
Examples of V-REMS Accomplishments
  • Environmental Improvement
  • Partnership won EPA Clean School Bus USA grant
  • City of Richmond, National Guard, and DSCR
    reduced ozone emissions by switching to low-VOC
    paint
  • Enhanced Cooperation Among V-REMS Participants
  • Better trust between DSCR and community helped
    DSCR address stakeholder concerns
  • Partnership facilitated trusting between DEQ and
    partners
  • Cost Savings
  • Hopewell Wastewater increased revenue by 500,000
    and reduced stormwater pollution
  • Improved community recognition
  • DSCR won 2005 White House Closing the Circle
    Award, Chesapeake Business for the Bay Award
  • State program recognition for many partners

9
Keys to V-REMS Success
  • Voluntary
  • No formality or bureaucracy to partnership
  • Ongoing involvement and cooperation with state
  • Common EMS language
  • Regular and frequent communication among partners
  • Willingness to try innovative approaches, share
    data/information, and enlist new partners
  • Focuses on local environmental priorities
  • Partnership helps each partner achieve individual
    environmental and organizational goals
  • Measurable environmental performance indicators

10
V-REMSA Successful Model
  • Replicable
  • Can be championed by public and private
    organizations
  • Has shown quantifiable performance improvement
  • Operationalizes sustainability
  • Contact with questions
  • Mike Murphy (VA DEQ) mpmurphy_at_deq.virginia.gov
  • Jimmy Parrish (DSCR) Jimmy.Parrish_at_dla.mil

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EXTRA/OPTIONAL SLIDES
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V-REMS experience and unique benefits of REMS for
DoD facilities
  • Better relationships with community stakeholders
  • Targets controversial relationships (i.e. sprawl)
    through community outreach strategies
  • Enhanced mission readiness
  • Greater operational control and preparedness
    (i.e. policy, permitting)
  • Improved security
  • Enhanced control of environmental security
    threats (i.e. water, wastewater)
  • Prepared for BRAC
  • Reduces risk at properties, increasing viability
    and use
  • DSCR's environmental impacts clearly extend
    beyond the fenceline of the installation.  As
    such, our efforts to address those impacts should
    do the same.
  • -RDML Michael J. Lyden, SC, USN
  • Former Commander of DSCR

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The Solution V-REMS
  • V-REMS take EMS framework one step further
  • V-REMS engage EMSs of public and private
    organizations with 3-part strategy that addresses
    stakeholder concerns
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