Pike & San Isabel National Forests
Cimarron & Comanche National Grasslands

Environmental Management System (EMS)

An environmental management system (EMS) is a globally accepted organizational management tool that allows an organization to address environmental issues and related health and safety matters. An EMS includes principles to identify current activities, establish goals, implement plans to meet these goals, determine progress, and monitor and measure improvements in environmental management and health and safety.

In the 2005 Planning Rule and Executive Order (E.O.) 13148 the Forest Service was directed to develop and implement an EMS on every National Forest. The EMS must comply with the international standard (ISO) 14001 that requires an agency "to integrate environmental accountability into agency day-to-day decision making and long-term planning processes, across all agency missions, activities, and functions." On June 1, 2006 the Forest Supervisor on the PSICC approved an EMS, initiating its implementation. The PSICC EMS is intended to be focused, flexible and transparent.

The following EMS Guide is for the Comanche and Cimarron National Grasslands. The PSICC is staging their EMS into two stages to coincide with the Forest and Grassland Land and Resource Management Plan revision process that is also segmented into a National Grasslands effort and a plan revision effort for the Pike and San Isabel National Forests. When the EMS is developed for the Pike and San Isabel National Forests, this will be combined into a single EMS for the entire PSICC National Forest and Grasslands.

• Getting Familiar with EMS (63 KB pdf)
  
• 4.1 General Requirements (37 KB pdf)
  
• 4.2 Environmental Policy (61 KB pdf)
  
• 4.3.1 Environmental Aspects (60 KB pdf)

• 4.3.1.1 Aspect Screening Process (25 KB pdf)
• 4.3.1.2 Aspect Evaluation Worksheet A (24 KB pdf)
• 4.3.1.3 Aspect Evaluation Worksheet B (11 KB pdf)
• 4.3.1.4 Aspect Evaluation Worksheet C (18 KB pdf)
• 4.3.1 Appendix 1 (8 KB pdf)

• 4.3.2 Legal and Other Requirements (53 KB pdf)

• 4.3.2.1 Legal and Other Requirements Table (9 KB pdf)

• 4.3.3 Objectives, Targets and Programs (53 KB pdf)

• 4.3.3.1 Objectives and Targets Table - Tamarisk (13 KB pdf)

• 4.4.1 Resources, Roles, Responsibilities, and Authority (54 KB pdf)

• 4.4.1.1 Roles Responsibility Table (13 KB pdf)

• 4.4.2 Competency, Training Awareness (53 KB pdf)

• 4.4.2.1 EMS Competency Training Table (11 KB pdf)

• 4.4.3 Communications (59 KB pdf)
  
• 4.4.4 Documentation (53 KB pdf)
  
• 4.4.5 Control of Documents (40 KB pdf)

• 4.4.5.1 List of Documents (16 KB pdf)

• 4.4.6 Operational Control (55 KB pdf)

• 4.4.6.1 Livestock Grazing Operational Controls (24 KB pdf)
• 4.4.6.2 Prescribed Fire Operational Controls (25 KB pdf)

• 4.4.7 Emergency Preparedness and Response (113 KB pdf)

• 4.4.7.1 BLM Reporting of Undesirable Events Letter (11 KB pdf)
• 4.4.7.2 BLM Reporting of Undesirable Events (14 KB pdf)
• 4.4.7.3 BLM Major Undesirable Event (MUE) Reporting Form (11 KB pdf)
• 4.4.7.4 BLM Notification List for MUEs (11 KB pdf)
• 4.4.7.5 PSICC Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Plan (100 KB pdf)

• 4.5.1 Monitoring and Measurement (51 KB pdf)

• 4.5.1.1 Montoring Forms (9 KB pdf)
• 4.5.1.2 Allotment Inspection Form ( 14 Kb pdf)
• 4.5.1 Appendix 1 (14 KB pdf)

• 4.5.2 Evaluation of Compliance (43 KB pdf)
  
• 4.5.3 Nonconformity, Corrective Action, and Preventive Action (54 KB pdf)

• 4.5.3.1 Nonconformity and Corrective Action Form (51 KB pdf)

• 4.5.4 Control of Records (37 KB pdf)

• 4.5.4.1 List of Records (20 KB pdf)

• 4.5.5 Internal Audit (51 KB pdf)

• 4.5.5.1 Internal Audit Program (25 KB pdf)

• 4.6 Management Review (61 KB pdf)

• 4.6.1 Management Review Form (49 KB pdf)

 

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