Regulatory Drivers
In 1975, the Department of Defense (DoD) began a pilot program to investigate
past hazardous waste disposal at DoD facilities.
Click on the regulatory and administrative
programs below to learn more about what drives environmental cleanup at ABL :
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As a result of CERCLA, the Navy initiated the Navy
Assessment and Control of Installation Pollutants (NACIP) Program. In
1986, the Navy Restructured NACIP into the Installation Restoration (IR)
Program to conform to the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund
procedures.
The goal of the Navy / Marine Corps IR Program is to
reduce, in a cost-effective manner, the risk to human health and the
environment of hazardous substance contamination from past Department of
Defense (DoD) activities in the U.S. and its territory. Risk
management is the primary philosophy in programming, budgeting, and
executing the program.
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Risk-based Prioritization |
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In accordance with DoD
policy, the Department of the Navy (DON) programs, budgets,
and executes the environmental restoration program with the
tools of risk management. Relative risk, as described in the
DoD Relative Risk Primer, is an important factor in risk
management and DoD standards are followed for evaluating and
assigning relative risk. The relative risk site
evaluation framework is a methodology used by all DoD
components to evaluate the relative risk posed by a site in
relation to other sites. It is a tool used across all
of DoD to group sites into high, medium, and low risk
categories based on evaluation of site information.
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Funding
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In 1984, Congress established
the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DREP) and
funded environmental restoration projects with the Defense
Environmental Restoration Account (DERA). In fiscal
year 1997, Congress transferred DERA to the military
departments. Each military department is responsible
to budget for environmental restoration within their total
obligation authority. The devolved Navy / Marine Corps
account is the Environmental Restoration, Navy (ER, N)
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