The EC monitors activities to ensure that they remain in compliance with environmental laws and regulations. The EC works in the ENRD or the DPW. The EC develops management plans for environmental control aspects of many facilities and operations, recommends appropriate training (including unit HW coordinations), and provides in-house guidance to operations. The coordinator may or may not have technical and support staff depending on the size of the installation and the magnitude of its environmental problem.
The EC functions much as a staff officer, overseeing environmental management at the installation and advising the commander accordingly. Not all the governmental work on the installation is the EC's responsibility.
Proponents of actions are responsible for meeting environmental documentation requirements, according to AR 200-2. The coordinator assists the proponent through such means as guidance, counseling, securing sources of special expertise, and possibly aiding directly in preparation, if time is available.
Organizations that generate pollution must ensure that pollution-control equipment is used. They must also ensure that pollution-generating activities follow all appropriate work practices. This includes reporting according to installation spill plans. The engineering division constructs, operates, and staffs major water and wastewater treatment facilities servicing the entire installation. Other organizations may be responsible for such pollution control as cleaning paint-booth air filters, operating vehicle washracks, and maintaining HW accumulation sites and records. The EC develops management plans for environmental-control aspects of all such facilities and operations, recommends appropriate training for facility operators, and provides in-house guidance to operators (to include monitoring as staffing allows).
The EC may also prepare land and natural cultural resource-management plans, which then must be implemented by all organizations on post. Some installations put some aspects of natural-resource management in separate offices.
The EC must be able to successfully use the services of procurement, civilian personnel, and legal offices, and proactively cooperate with safety, medical, and fire departments.
The EC must work with the training organizations within CPO and the DPTM to secure adequate training for those personnel involved in the overall installation environmental programs, unit activities and installation staff. The environmental office is responsible for aspects of planning training associated with HW management and spill response.
Areas of responsibility. As outlined in AR 200-1, the responsibilities of the EC include oversight of some operations that the engineering directorate may directly control and others that the EC monitors in a staff capacity.
