Planning Environmental Management

The operations group will develop general operating and maintenance objectives for the facilities which will address product quality, costs, safety and environmental issues. At a more detailed level, the mode of operations and maintenance tor a particular project will be specified in the field development plan. Both specifications will be discussed in this section, which will focus on the input of the production operations and maintenance departments to a field development plan. The management of the field during the producing period is discussed in Section 14.0. 

Shell, David J. A Green Plan for Industry 16 Steps to Environmental Excellence. Rockville, Md. Government Institutes, Inc., 1998. - Offers a 16-step process for developing a comprehensive environmental management plan. Written for environmental managers, this book also contains techniques and tools for implementing ISO 14001. 

In addition to the rules, regulations and procedures provided above for emergency planning and response, each state (in tlie United States) is actually involved in other environmental management activities. Recently, Matystik et al lia C prepared a suiiuiiary outline for interested users on tliese otlier state regulatory initiatives. The outline is a baker s dozen of information wliicli include the following for each state ... 

This book assembles a tremendous amount of practical information to show how to plan and manage production activities to minimize and even eliminate. some environmental problems without severely disrupting operations. It focuses on ways to treat drilling and production wastes to reduce their toxicity and/or volume before their ultimate disposal. 

Urban, rural and industrial developments may have profound effects on the surrounding environment. Such effects can defeat the object of development, in that the negative environmental impact may outweigh the benefits. In the case of natural resources, inappropriate development may even destroy the resource base. If environmental matters are accorded adequate consideration during the planning and management of development programs and projects it is possible for pollutants to be assimilated. As a result, the whole development can be accommodated by the environment in such a way that adverse effects are minimized and the economic and social benefits of development are maximized. 

Monaghan, C.A. Environmental Management A Planned, Multi-plant Approach, Hydrocarbon Processing, Oct. 1972, p. 173. 

Byron, H., Treweek, J. R., Sheate, W. R., Thompson, S. (2000). Road Developments in the UK an Analysis of Ecological Assessment in Environmental Impact Statements Produced between 1993 and 1997. Journal of Planning and Environmental Management 43(1), 71-97. 

Thompson, S., Treweek, J. R., Thurling, D. J. (1997). The Ecological Component of Environmental Impact Assessment — a Critical Review of British Environmental Statements. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 40(2), 157-171. 

Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Regulation Environmental Planning and Management... 

In any environmental management plan, it is essential to understand the pertinent quality criteria and their relationship to the variables that can be manipulated directly. The construction of mathematical models imposes the requirement of a logical framework that connects causes and effects, identifies all pertinent variables, and defines their interrelationships. Even if a particular technique never becomes practical, the discipline imposed by the logical structure is valuable in highlighting important relationships. 

Over the past several decades there have been increasingly strong demands in Europe and the United States that atmospheric chemistry research be directly useful in developing scientific risk assessments and public policies. For example, one component of the EUROTRAC program (European Experiment on Transport and Transformation of Environmentally Relevant Trace Constituents in the Troposphere) ...is expected to assimilate the scientific results from EUROTRAC and present them in a condensed form, together with recommendations where appropriate, so that they are suitable for use by those responsible for environmental planning and management in Europe (EUROTRAC, 1993). 

Landfills, sewage treatment plants, and factories can be planned and managed with high environmental standards. The location decisions of such undertakings have to ensure the safety of the groundwater. For this reason, the following surveys and studies are essential ... 

This study has been conducted under the direction of the Monroe County Landfill Review Committee, comprised of representatives of the Monroe County Environmental Management Council, the Monroe County Departments of Health and Planning, the New York State Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation, the City of Rochester Department of Community Development and the Industrial Management Council. 

Prior to agent operations, STBs were carried out for each of the three furnaces at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ANCDF) the liquid incinerator (FIC), the deactivation furnace system (DFS), and the metal parts furnace (MPF). GB ATBs were conducted for the FIC and DFS in 2003 and for the MPF in 2005. In 2006, VX ATBs were conducted for the FIC and DFS. A DRE performance test was conducted on the MPF in 2006, and MPF VX ATBs are planned for 2007.4 After an ATB, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management allows ANCDF to oper-... 

Around the world, coastlines are retreating. Economic and environmental realities offer two choices plan a managed retreat now, or undertake a vastly more expensive program of armoring the coastline as required and retreat through a series of unpredictable disasters. This was the prediction of the f 985 Skidway Confer-... 

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