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Environmental Management System Implementation Update, AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways, August 2006. Includes details on EMS efforts at 11 state DOTs and one transportation district.
http://environment.transportation.org/pdf/environ_mgmt_sys/EMSreport.pdf
EMS templates, directives, tools, modules, and fact sheets available through the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
http://www.ofee.gov/ems/ems.asp
Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management, Executive Order 13423, January 24, 2007
http://www.ofee.gov/whats/whatsnew.asp
Instructions for Implementing Executive Order 13423, March 29, 2007
http://www.ofee.gov/eo/eo13423_instructions.pdf
Environmental Information Management and Decision Support System for Transportation: The Results of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 25-23, Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) National Broadcast Series, June 24, 2004
http://itre.ncsu.edu/CTE/TechTransfer/Teleconferences/docs/tc30handout.pdf
AASHTO’s Practitioner’s Handbook 04, Tracking Compliance with Environmental Commitments/Use of Environmental Monitors (November 2006) – "A system for tracking environmental commitments made in the NEPA process could be implemented as part of an EMS."
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EPA-330/9-97-002R, Compliance-Focused Environmental Management System – Enforcement Agreement Guidance (June 2005), Provides "...particular emphasis on adopting EMSs to achieve improved environmental performance, including compliance, pollution prevention, and continual improvement in all areas, regulated and unregulated." Compliance agreements for several DOTs require EMSs.
http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/resources/policies/neic/cfems_05.pdf
FHWA’s Successes in Stewardship, Monthly Newsletter (May 2006) - "...EMS can better equip agencies with the information, resources, strategy, and feedback they need to improve their performance and reduce their environmental impact."
http://environment.fhwa.dot.gov/strmlng/newsletters/may06nl.asp
FHWA has supported and encouraged the use of EMSs for several years. For example, the July 23, 2002 Memorandum titled Environmental Management Systems (EMS) as a tool to demonstrate Environmental Stewardship (signed by Cynthia J. Burbank, Associate Administrator for Planning, Environment, and Real Estate Services) states "FHWA… continues to support EMS as a strategy for demonstrating environmental stewardship."
http://nepa.fhwa.dot.gov/ReNEPA/ReNepa.nsf/All+Documents/55BADE4D47211
31485256C02004FED51/$FILE/EMSMemor.doc
Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance
http://www.mswg.org
US EPA EMS Resources, Publications, and other information
http://www.epa.gov/ems/resources/index.htm
EMS Software Assessment, under Cooperative Agreement 82886901, Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF), March 15, 2004
/pdf/ISOSoftwareAssessPaperFINAL031504.pdf
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