AIR FORCE INITIATIVES

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

AIR FORCE MEMO ON ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVES

 In March, Air Force Chief of Staff General Ronald Fogleman 
and Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall signed a memorandum, for 
distribution to all of the Air Force major commands. The memo 
announced three initiative in the area of Environment, Safety, and 
Occupational Health.

 It labels the initiatives Sustain Readiness, Be a Good 
Neighbor, and Leverage our Resources. To a large degree, they 
summarize activity already underway. But buried in the descriptions 
are two important milestones:

1. By December, 1995, the Air Force will develop a "comprehensive 
airspace and range plan." It explains, "This plan will address both 
operational and environmental issues, and support our training needs 
for today and the future."

2. By August, 1995, the Air Force is asking its major commands to 
"require Restoration Advisory Boards to complete a review of the 
relative risk evaluations at our active base cleanup sites." Reportedly, 
the Air Force has pilot tested its relative risk evaluation methodology 
- which categorizes risk as high, medium, or low at each individual 
site within a base - with one RAB, and it found that the process went 
surprisingly quickly.

Lenny Siegel