Example
17 : Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Environmental
Policy
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will use practical
means and measures to provide an environmentally sound,
fiscally responsible, safe and efficient transportation
system which promotes conditions under which people
and nature can exist in productive harmony while providing
for economic growth and enhancing the quality of life
for present and future generations of Kentuckians.
The principles and responsibilities of the above
policy statement which we are incorporating into the
culture and fabric of our organization and daily activities
are as follows:
Stewardship
We will strive to protect, conserve, restore, and
enhance the natural and human environment, while we
plan, design, construct, and maintain facilities that
meet transportation needs.
Leadership
We will promote development, sharing and the integration
of sensitive and innovative environmental practices
and technologies into planning, design, construction,
and maintenance activities to encourage personnel to
value and take pride in their environmental leadership
roles.
Partnership
We will seek stewardship opportunities to cooperatively
partner with the public, federal and state resource
agencies to identify shared visions, missions, and
goals which will result in new consensus building processes,
new methods and protocols, and new design and environmental
technologies to be applied on mutually beneficial undertakings.
Practice
We will employ Context Sensitive Solutions to ensure
that our planning, design, construction, and maintenance
activities reflect community and environmental values
as determined through proactive involvement with the
public, resource agencies, and other stakeholders.
Commitment
Our Cabinet is committed to a culture that embraces
environmental leadership with an unwavering focus on
protecting the environment through stewardship and
our devotion to satisfy the public, resource agencies,
and other stakeholders as the primary measure of success
in carrying out our mission.
By working with the public, resource agencies and
other stakeholders to integrate environmental stewardship
into our daily activities, the Cabinet is responding
to the wishes and needs of its customers, the values
it holds foremost as public servants while acting in
the spirit of environmental law. It is the right thing
to do for transportation and the human and natural
environment.
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