Army Environmental Cleanup Program Focus

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Army Environmental Cleanup Program Focus

• Russ Marshall
• Tetra Tech Inc
• 21 May 2007

Headquarters Department of the Army 600 Army
Pentagon Washington, DC 20310-0600
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Overview

• Set the stage
• Army Environmental Cleanup Strategy Strategic
  Plan
• Army cleanup philosophy
• Army direction for cleanup
• Resources
• Strategy, Strategic Plan, PMP IAP Relationship
• Performance-based acquisition
• Conclusion

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Army Environmental Cleanup Strategy

• Provides roadmap to guide the Army in attaining
  its environmental vision
• The Army will be a national leader in cleaning
  up contaminated land to protect human health and
  the environment as an integral part of its
  mission
• Identifies unified program objectives
• Ensure consistency and accountability
• Achieve standardization across programs
• Establishes program areas, drivers and mission
  statements for each program area
• Uses ISO 14001EMS framework

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Army Environmental Cleanup Program
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Strategic Plan Update

• Objectives
• From Cleanup Strategy and tailored to each
  program area not much change
• Conduct cleanup to sustain the Army mission
• Targets for FY2008 and FY2009
• Identify specific actions with a time frame
• Some common to all programs
• Most are program specific
• Success Indicators
• How you know if you got there

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Army Cleanup Philosophy

• Centrally managed cleanup program
• Standardization across programs
• Completion of sites and installations
• Results oriented
• Performance driven management
• Recognize and reward achievements

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Army Direction for Cleanup

• Identify requirements
• Maintain supporting documentation
• Conduct semiannual management reviews
• Report financial liabilities
• Single database of record for each program area
• Use innovative technology and periodic reviews to
  safely and effectively accelerate site closeout

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Requirements Identification

• Applies to all cleanup
• Defense Environmental Restoration Program
• Compliance-related Cleanup
• Link environmental liability with real property
  records
• Involve stakeholders early, agree on exit
  strategy
• Maintain administrative record
• Information repository too
• Maintain permanent document repository
• Protect future Army interests, especially for
  emerging contaminants and changing cleanup goals

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Management Reviews

• Semi-annual with each program manger
• Actual versus planned results as forecast in
  annual program management plan
• IRP RIP/RC
• MMRP SIs
• CC SIs
• Instill pride of ownership, finish cleanup, and
  recognize results

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Financial Liability Reporting

• Qualified audit opinion in FY2010
• Unqualified audit when Armys revised financial
  system is in place
• Three databases of record
• AEDB-R
• AEDB-CC
• FUDSMIS
• Standardized cost estimates
• RACER or engineering estimate from Feasibility
  Study
• Supervisory review
• Quality Control / Quality Assurance

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Accelerate Site Closeout

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Resources

• Endless? NO!!!
• (M) FY07 FY08
• Army DERP (IRP) 376 389
• Army DERP (MMRP) 27 46
• FUDS (IRP) 177 170
• FUDS (MMRP) 85 80
• BRAC (IRP) 39 41
• BRAC (MMRP) 11 14
• Compliance Cleanup 99 110

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Strategy, Strategic Plan, PMP IAP Relationship

• Strategy includes vision and objectives
• Strategic Plan is ACSIMs direction to program
  managers
• Program Management Plan
• The PMs plan to tell leadership how they are
  managing their program
• Installation Action Plan (Management Action Plan)
• Presents a plan based on available funding

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Performance-Based Acquisition (PBA)

• Another tool for accelerating cleanup and
  achieving site closeout
• Achieved 56 of ER,A on PBA in FY06
• Expecting 50 of ER,A in FY07, FY08
• PBA Applies to BRAC and FUDS too
• Army Contracting Agency and USACE contracts
  available
• FFP, FP or Cost-plus w/incentives and/or
  insurance
• Through FY06, 60M in cost avoidance applied to
  additional cleanup projects

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Conclusion

• Bottom line
• Close sites, finish cleanup at installations
  for the Army
• Management Philosophy
• Centrally managed cleanup program
• Completion of sites and installations
• Performance driven management
• Use Environmental Management System plan do
  check act to gain continual improvement