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EMS Fenceline

EMS Fenceline. Factors that will define the scope of each NAA location’s EMS Physical size of your location Research mission of your facility Self-supporting location versus tenant of a larger facility having its own EMS

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EMS Fenceline

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  1. EMS Fenceline • Factors that will define the scope of each NAA location’s EMS • Physical size of your location • Research mission of your facility • Self-supporting location versus tenant of a larger facility having its own EMS • State and municipal agencies that have environmental regulatory oversight over your location

  2. Step 1 • Look at the Comprehensive Picture of Your Facility • Research Activities • Facility Operations Activities • Construction and Demolition Activities • Within Your “Fenceline”, Identify and List Activities • Crop research • Animal research • Use hazardous chemicals • Generate hazardous waste

  3. Characterizing Your Activities, Products, and Services • Interviews with research and field staff (what are they doing, are they using hazardous materials, etc.) • What are your location’s hazardous material purchases (review inventories) • Hazardous waste records • Records from emergency planning, accident reports, emergency incidents • Water and energy consumption records

  4. STEP 2 • Determine if there are environmental aspects associated with each activity on your list • An environmental aspect is the part of an activity, product, or service that interacts with the environment. An aspect can be thought of as the actual or potential “cause” of an environmental impact. • Aspects can be regulated or unregulated.

  5. Activity, Product, or Service Purchasing Hazardous Chemicals Environmental Aspects Depletion of natural resources in the following ways: (a) Energy utilized in chemical manufacturing; and (b) Energy requirements for chemical storage (e.g., use of electricity for low-temperature refrigeration or ventilation Generation of hazardous waste by the following activities: (a) Duplicate purchasing of hazardous chemicals already on location inventory; (b) Large-scale purchasing of unusable quantities of chemical; and, (c) Chemical is not used, resulting in chemical entering hazardous waste stream due to expired use date. Example 1

  6. Activity, Product, or Service Facility Maintenance Environmental Aspects Hazardous waste generation (spent fluorescent lamps, PCB containing lamp ballasts, spent solvents, paints) Generation of asbestos-containing waste Generation of universal waste (used oils, mercury-containing equipment) Ozone depletion (repair of older refrigeration equipment containing ozone depleting refrigerants) Generation of solid waste (excess furniture and equipment) Release of volatiles Example 2

  7. Activity, Product, or Service Vehicle maintenance Environmental Aspect Hazardous waste generation Gasoline consumption Noise generation Electricity consumption Solid waste generation Water consumption Waste water generation Release of volatiles Example 3

  8. Activity, Product, or Service Office work Environmental Aspect Electricity consumption Water consumption Waste water generation Release of ozone depleting substances in air cooling units Solid waste generation Disposal of toxics from computer toner, etc. Example 4

  9. Building an Aspects Register • Assemble list of activities, products, and services • Characterize activities, products, and services • List aspects • Organize and rank aspects as appropriate

  10. Step 3 • A significant environmental aspect is an environmental aspect that has or can have a significant environmental impact. • Significance could be tied to: • Environmental concerns • Natural resource concerns • Regulatory or legal exposure • Business or mission concerns • Concerns of interested parties

  11. Factors That May Play a Rolein Managing Aspects • Size, severity and duration of environmental impact • Ease of improvement • Regulatory or Executive Order requirement • Cost • Mission impact • Community impact • Sustainability

  12. Determining Significant Aspects Use reproducible methodology; e.g., rank using a formula containing factors the organization considers important Potential factors • severity • probability/frequency • risk (environmental/ health/financial) • Mission impact • external concerns • ability to control/ improve • duration • regulatory concern

  13. Ranking Aspects to Determine Those That Should Be Managed Under My Location’s EMS Severity • 5 Catastrophic • 4 High • 3 Moderate • 2 Low • 1 Slight • 0 Positive Impact Regulatory Importance • 5 Current violation • 4 Non-compliance, past 3 yrs • 3 Non-compliance, past 5 yrs • 2 In compliance • 1 Below regulatory cut-off • 0 Unregulated

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