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FACILITY PRE-SITE QUESTIONNAIRE
I.     FACILITY CONTACT INFORMATION
Name of Facility:
Facility Director / Manager:
Address:
Telephone: Fax:
E-mail:
Facility Environmental Coordinator:
Address:
Telephone: Fax:
E-mail:
Parent Organization:
Environmental Manager:
Address:
Telephone: Fax:
E-mail:
2.     FACILITY ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

1. Please describe your facility's mission, major activities, products, and services:
2. Of these major activities, products, and services, which ones have the greatest potential to impact the environment?
3. How does your facility fit into the organizational structure of your parent agency?
4. Has your parent agency issued a formal, organization-wide environmental policy and standards? When?
5. Was employee input solicited during the development of the environmental policy? How was this accomplished?
6. Have issue-specific (i.e., dealing with specific environmental issues like hazardous waste, air pollution, etc.) environmental policies been developed? How are they developed and by whom?
7. Does your parent agency provide environmental assistance and/or oversight? How does your parent agency collect reporting data from and/or provide environmental information to your facility? Who is your facility's point of contact with your parent agency?
8. How does your Environmental Program fit into your facility's organizational structure? What is the facility's annual budget? What is the level of funding for the Environmental Program?
9. Do any other facility staff or programs have environmental management responsibilities? If yes, please explain.
10. How is your facility Environmental Management Program organized? Number of staff with full-time or part-time environmental responsibilities? Briefly describe the general responsibilities of your Environmental Program.
11. What is the internal process for implementing new environmental initiatives? What is the approval process and how are funds allocated for new environmental initiatives?
12. How does top management confirm that line personnel know of an environmental policy's existence and that line personnel understand the policy's goals and objectives?
13. How are personnel prepared/trained for the new environmental initiatives?
14. What methods are used to track and measure facility environmental performance? How frequently is such measurement performed?
3.    PLEASE PROVIDE COPIES OR SAMPLES OF THE FOLLOWING:

Parent agency organization chart
Staffing and organization chart for your facility
Parent agency-issued environmental policies and standards
Facility-issued environmental policies and standards
Procedures designed to implement environmental initiatives
Supporting documentation for reporting and communicating environmental policies and initiatives such as meeting notices, meeting minutes, memoranda etc.
Training information pertaining to environmental policy implementation
Written Environmental Program performance and status reports
Budgetary information about your facility's environmental programs