Environmental assessments help determine compliance with regulations, and the U.S. Air Force's environmental compliance program identifies problems before they are cited as violations. In 1984, the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USACERL) and the U.S. Air Force Engineering and Services Center began the Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ECAMP) to combine Federal, Department of Defense (DOD), and Air Force regulations and documentation of management practices and risk- management ...
The number of environmental laws and regulations continue to grow in the United States and worldwide, making compliance with regulations increasingly difficult. Environmental assessments became a way to determine compliance with current environmental regulations. The Air Force has adopted a compliance program that identifies problems before they are cited as violations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Beginning in 1984, the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (uSACERL), in ...