From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org> |
Date: | Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:52:23 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | DOD ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REPORT |
DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REPORT For several years, the Annual Report of the Defense Environmental Restoration Program or Cleanup Program has served as the original source of most nationally available information about the Pentagon's known hazardous waste contamination and its efforts to clean up those sites. In 1995 the Defense Environmental Security office published for the first time a counterpart describing its environmental activities related to present, as opposed to past, operations. The 300-page-plus "Defense Environmental Quality Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1994" for the first time presents a comprehensive description of the military's programs for environmental compliance, pollution prevention, and resource management, as well as support activities in training and technology development. Like other DOD reports, the Environmental Quality Report is to some degree an exercise in public relations. That is, it only has good things to say about the military's environmental behavior. Nevertheless, it demonstrates convincingly that environmental quality programs are big business at the Pentagon, funded at $2.6 billion in fiscal year 1995, several hundred million dollars more than the cleanup budget. Perhaps more important, it illustrates how environmental activities, from improving waste treatment to the use of alternative fueled vehicles to the preservation of native burial grounds, have been integrated into Department of Defense operations. In introducing the report, Defense Secretary William Perry wrote, "The Environmental Quality Program is an integral part of the overall mission of the Department of Defense. The program supports our operational readiness, protects the quality of life for our personnel, and contributes to our efforts to achieve economic efficiency through modernization." Like the cleanup report, the Environmental Quality Report, contains massive appendices. It lists, by installation, both the personnel and funding requirements for environmental quality programs over each of the next five years. Such numbers presents a useful picture of the magnitude of such programs, but there is no way from the appendices to determine which types of environmental quality activity, and to what degree, are being supported at any individual facility. |
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