Rocky Mountain Arsenal Environmental Compliance Support

The RMA Environmental Compliance intranet site includes detailed requirements for ongoing remediation projects; access to relevant compliance documents; schedules, points of contacts; and numerous other features.

Need/Opportunity

• The environmental restoration program at RMA operates under complex environmental compliance requirements that demand careful management by a small staff

Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA) is a large Army facility undergoing an extensive cleanup under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). RMA has significant environmental restoration issues and operates under complex environmental compliance requirements. These requirements demand careful management by RMA staff. A small federal compliance staff could easily be overwhelmed with the demands for information about compliance-related activities at the Army's largest cleanup site. RMA needed a means for introducing efficiency into its compliance programs that would allow its staff to become proactive in addressing potential compliance issues.

Approach

• Secure internet site that provides "one stop shopping" for environmental compliance information
• Compliance reporting database that tracks reporting requirements
• Electronic filing system that enables paperless operations
• Database for tracking compliance deficiencies through correction and closure

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA) Environmental Compliance intranet site supports the Army's efforts to maintain compliance with environmental requirements for a variety of remediation activities at the arsenal.; This secure intranet site serves as "one stop shopping" for environmental compliance at RMA.; It provides detailed requirements for 32 remediation projects; access to more than 100 relevant compliance documents; a module with multiple-tier auditing policies, schedules, compliance checklists and results; points of contacts; access to federal, state and local regulations; a site-wide search function; and the following three databases:

• The compliance reporting database tracks the status and provides details on over 1,500 reporting requirements, including links to documents and regulations mandating the reports.
• The electronic filing system allows the compliance office to operate without paper. The database includes a module that tracks all document reviews and enables NEPA review and automatic categorization and insertion of documents into the filing system.
• The deficiency-tracking database tracks the results of audits and resolution of findings.

Benefits

• Sitewide access to environmental regulations affecting the site
• Increased efficiencies within the environmental compliance program
• Proactive approach to resolving potential compliance issues

The RMA Environmental Compliance intranet site provides several immediate benefits to the facility. The most important is that it allows efficient management of a complex and challenging compliance program by a relatively small staff. Simplified compliance tracking and reporting activities lessen the need for staff to operate in a crisis management mode, and permits them instead to be more proactive in identifying and addressing potential compliance issues.