Office of the Assistant Secretary of the ArmyInstallations and Environment

Our Installations Supporting the War: Relevant and Ready

“Sustain the Mission –Secure the Future”

“Sustain the Mission –Secure the Future”

Mr. Raymond J. FatzDeputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

(Environment, Safety and Occupational Health)

Association of the United States Army(October 25, 2004)

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What is Sustainability?

Sustainability – “a sustainable Army simultaneously meets current as well as future mission requirements worldwide, safeguards human health, improves quality of life, and enhances the natural environment.”

(Army Strategy for the Environment, 2004)

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•• Strategic Level Strategic Level –– Mankind is exceeding the Mankind is exceeding the earthearth’’s capacity to provide resources and absorb s capacity to provide resources and absorb wastes.wastes.

•• Operational Level Operational Level –– We face decreasing access We face decreasing access to natural resources and livable regions which will to natural resources and livable regions which will lead to greater potential for conflict and military lead to greater potential for conflict and military deployments. deployments.

•• Tactical Level Tactical Level –– We are facing increasing We are facing increasing encroachment pressures on our installations that encroachment pressures on our installations that threaten our ability to provide realistic, battlethreaten our ability to provide realistic, battle--focused training for our soldiers.focused training for our soldiers.

Sustainability as a solution to…

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FREQUENCY ALLOCATION

HAZARDOUSWASTE

SAFE DRINKINGWATER

ENDANGERED SPECIES AND

CRITICAL HABITAT

CLEAN AIRAND WATER

NATIVE AMERICANAND ARCHEOLOGICAL

RESOURCES

URBANIZATION ANDOTHER LAND USEENCROACHMENT

HISTORICPRESERVATION

MUNITIONS REGULATION

AIRSPACE

Noise

Increasing Pressures

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US Army Sustainability Initiatives

• Sustainable Design and Development Policy

• Sustainable Range Management Plan– Integrated Training Area Management– Range Assessments

• Sustainable Range Design R&D Program

• Army Installation Sustainability Program -- Forts Bragg, Lewis, Hood, Carson, Campbell, McPherson, and more are coming on-line.

• The Army Strategy for the Environment

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“Sustain the Mission – Secure the Future”

• Army Environmental Program undergoing significant change

• Vision: long-term sustainability

Army Strategy for the Environment

OUR GOALS

Foster a sustainable ethicStrengthen Army operationsMeet test, training and mission

requirementsMinimize impacts and total

ownership costsEnhance Well-beingDrive Innovation

“Triple bottom line” -- Mission, Environment, Communities.

• Supports Army in all missions

• Applies to all Army units, organizations, personnel, suppliers, support contractors, and partners.

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Sustainability is about Balance

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Fort Leonard Wood

Detroit Ars

USAG Selfridge

Lima Army Tank Plt

Fort McCoy (USAR)

Fort LewisYakima Training

Center

Umatilla Chem Depot

Rock Island Arsenal

Moffett FieldRFTA (USAR)

NORTHWESTLewis

White Sands Missile Testing Center

Fort Sill

Fort BlissFort Hood

Pine Bluff Ars

McAlester AAPRed River AD

Lone Star AAP

Camp Stanley Storage Actv

Louisiana AAP

Fort Sam Houston

Corpus Christi AD

Presidio of Monterey

Fort Irwin

Yuma Proving Ground

Fort Hauchuca

Riverbank AAP

Sierra Army Depot

Hawthorne AD

Fort Hunter Liggett (USAR)

Parks RFTA (USAR)

SOUTHWEST

Fort Riley Fort Leavenworth

Iowa AAP

Kansas AAP

Lake City AAP

Dugway Proving Ground

Pueblo Depot

Fort CarsonTooele AD

Deseret Chem DepotCarson

Hood

Blue Grass AD

Polk

Fort BraggMOT Sunny Point

Fort Belvoir

Bragg

Fort McPhersonFort Gordon

Fort StewartHunter Army Airfield

Fort Jackson

Ft Buchanan, PR

Fort BenningFt. Gillem

Mississippi AAP

Redstone Arsenal

Holston AAP

Milan AAP

USAG Miami

SOUTHEAST Campbell

Benning

RuckerStewart / HAAF

Knox

Anniston

NORTHEASTNatick R & D CtrDevens RFTA (USAR)

Fort Drum

Fort MonmouthPicatinny Arsenal

Watervliet ArsFt. Hamilton

Fort Dix (USAR)

West Point

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Fort StoryFort Lee

Ft. AP Hill

Radford AAP

Letterkenny AD

Carlisle Barracks

Fort McNairFt. Meade

Fort Myer

Walter Reed

Ft Detrick

Tobyhanna Army Depot

Adelphi Lab Ctr

Scranton AAP

EustisMonroe

Installation Sustainability Initiatives

McPherson

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Success Stories

• Facilities Goals –– Renewable, Secure Energy– Build to Spirit Standards

• Water Goals –– Reduce Use, Improve Quality

• Regional Goals –– Joint Planning and Outreach

• Procurement Goals –– Recyclable Materials, No Waste

• Transportation Goals –– Clean and Convienent

• Military Training Goals –– Better Land Use On and Off Post

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What we are hearing…

“Create a win-win proposition for land use and environmental stewardship.”LTG Thomas F. Metz, CG, III Corps

“I offer my congratulations to the men and women of Fort Lewis. Your sustainability program is bold, pioneering, visionary.”

Honorable Gary Locke, Governor

“I'm trying to think of an area around the Statewhere the dominant industry is taking the lead in sustainability - I can't think of one.”

Secretary William D. Ross, NC Dept of Environment

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Installation Sustainability

“Sustainability connects our activities today to those of tomorrow with sound business and environmental practices. We have learned over the past decades that simply complying with environmental regulations will not ensure that we will be able to sustain our mission. We must strive to become systems thinkers if we are to benefit from the interrelationships of the triple bottom line of sustainability: mission, environment, and community.”

(October 2004)

R.L. BrownleeActing Secretary of the Army

Peter J. SchoomakerGeneral, United States ArmyChief of Staff