In January 2003, Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 3200.15 established policy and assigned responsibility under Title 10, United States Code for the sustainment of training and test ranges in the Department of Defense. In August 2003, LTG Cody, Deputy Chief of Staff G-3 signed out the Army's Sustainable Range Program (SRP) Plan as implementing guidance for DoDD 3200.15. In 2005 the Army created Army Regulation 350-19, "The Army Sustainable Range Program". The regulation laid the groundwork and established responsibilities and procedures for the Sustainable Range Program.

The SRP goal is to maximize the capability, availability, and accessibility of ranges and training lands to support doctrinal requirements, mobilization, and deployments under normal and surge conditions.

SRP is comprised of two programs, the Range and Training Land Program (RTLP) and Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM). The RTLP provides for the central management, programming, and policy for modernization of the Army's ranges and their day-to-day operations. ITAM provides Army Range Officers with the capability to manage and maintain training land by integrating mission requirements with environmental requirements and sound land management practices. ITAM relies on its four components and an integrated management from Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA), and installations to accomplish its mission. The four components are Training Requirements Integration (TRI); Range and Training Land Assessment (RTLA); Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance (LRAM); and Sustainable Range Awareness (SRA). Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is used in coordination as a foundational support element that provides geospatial information that assists land managers in decisions making. (NOTE: Preceding are all SRPWeb Portal links and require Army Knowledge Online [AKO] user ID and password or Common Access Card [CAC] for access.)

The U.S. Army Environmental Command (USAEC) is responsible for providing and managing environmental technical support for the SRP. The following outlines the major program and project areas the USAEC is responsible under the SRP.

The SRP Annual Awards Program is intended to recognize individuals, teams, and installations for the outstanding work and achievements within SRP. Five SRP Award categories have been approved to recognize the outstanding achievement and dedicated services of SRP personnel, teams and installations. The categories included are: The Sustainable Range Program Award (Individual), the Range Control Team Sustainable Range Program Award, Tier 1 Installation Sustainable Range Program Award, Tier 2 Installation Sustainable Range Program Award, and Tier 3 Installation Sustainable Range Program Award. Integrated management serves as a central theme underlying each of the awards categories.

Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) Program

• The SRP Workshop has been a longstanding conference for the ITAM community. It has always been held in a location, which was near an Army ITAM installation. It was established for the ITAM community to share ideas, collectively train and disseminate and promote program policy and guidance. The workshop has been held annually for fourteen years and has provided many successes.



• ITAM Learning Modules
  The ITAM Learning Modules are designed to enhance professional understanding of the scientific, technical and programmatic components of the Army's ITAM program in a distance-learning environment. The following are the ITAM Learning Modules:
  • Tactical Units and Equipment
  • Training Requirements Integration
  • Range and Training Land Assessment
  • Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance
  • Sustainable Range Awareness
  • Natural and Cultural Resources



• Training Requirements Integration (TRI)
  TRI facilitates training land management decisions that meet both mission requirements and natural resource conservation objectives. TRI integrates the installation's training and testing requirements for land use derived from the Range and Training Land Program (RTLP), range operations and training land management processes, and the installation training readiness requirements with the natural resource conditions of installation lands. TRI includes the Army Training and Testing Area Carrying Capacity (ATTACC) methodology, which is the standard ITAM erosion and sediment transfer methodology for estimating training land carrying capacity by relating training load, land condition, and land maintenance practices.



• Range and Training Land Assessment (RTLA)
  RTLA is a process of military land management to maximize the capability and sustainability of land to meet the Army training and testing mission. It incorporates a relational database and uses GIS to support land use planning decisions. RTLA collects physical and biological resources data from training land utilization in order to relate land conditions to training and testing activities.
  • RTLA Plan and Reporting
  • RTLA Technical Support
  • RTLA Data Collection and Monitoring
  • RTLA Data Management and Analysis
  • RTLA Coordination
  • RTLA Resources
  • RTLA Overview
  • RTLA Learning Module
  • RTLA User's Working Group



• Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance (LRAM)
  The LRAM Component is a key enabler for sustaining realistic training conditions and supporting the personnel, weapons, vehicles, and the mission requirements for the Soldiers. LRAM is a preventive and corrective land rehabilitation and maintenance procedure that reduces the long-term impacts of training and testing on installation lands. Its primary function is to maintain training lands to ensure its capability to support the mission. It mitigates mission and training and testing effects by combining preventive and corrective land rehabilitation, repair, and/or maintenance practices to reduce the impacts of training and testing on an installation. It includes training area redesign and/or reconfiguration to meet training requirements.
  • LRAM Overview
  • LRAM Resources
  • LRAM Working Group
  • LRAM Learning Module



• Sustainable Range Awareness (SRA)
  SRA provides a mean to educate land users on their environmental stewardship responsibilities in conjunction with their use of Army lands. It also provides for the development and distribution of educational materials to land users. These materials relate procedures for sound environmental stewardship of natural and cultural resources and reduce the potential for inflicting avoidable impacts on Army training lands. SRA also includes information provided to environmental professionals concerning operational requirements.
  • SRA Products
  • SRA Recognition Program



• SRP Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  GIS is the foundational support element of the SRP. . The SRP GIS mission is to create, analyze, manage, and distribute authoritative standardized spatial information, products, and services for the execution of training strategies and missions on Army ranges and training lands.
  • GIS Regional Support Center
  • GIS Users Working Group
  • GIS Tools
  • GIS Resources
  • GIS Training



• North Atlantic Treaty Organization Environmental Training Workgroup (NATO-ETWG)



• Army Range Sustainment Integration Council
  The Army Range Sustainment Integration Council (ARSIC) is a Headquarters Department of the Army team that supports sustainable range management by developing recommendations for policy, positions, and action plans. It also helps to coordinate, integrate and focus the Army's many activities related to sustainable range management. The Commander of USAEC is a voting member of this council and the Chief, Range Sustainment Branch, participates on the ARSIC Workgroup.



• Operational Range Inventory Sustainment
  The Operational Range Inventory Sustainment (ORIS) was a joint Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM) and G-3 initiative in which location and background information about Army ranges was collected and updated. This spatially oriented data includes range usage, environmental conditions, munitions fired, and a number of other range attributes. The baseline information on ranges was initially collected between 2000 and 2002 through the Army Active/Inactive Range Inventory project. The ORIS was initiated to ensure the accuracy of this information and was updated as new ranges were constructed, existing ranges were upgraded, designated uses changed, and/or additional range attribute data was required based on emerging environmental, ACSIM or G3 requirements. The ORIS was completed in 2008. The Range Sustainment Branch of the Range and Technology Division (IMAE-RT) USAEC is the project manager and ACSIM and G-3 provide oversight on the ORIS program. ACSIM and G-3 provide their requirements to USAEC through the Army Range Sustainment Integration Council (ARSIC). The Operational Range Inventory provides the Army with unparalleled availability of information on its training assets and supports many users in the Sustainable Range Program. Data from the Operational Range Inventory can be accessed through the ACSIM Army Mapper, the database of record for installation geospatial data.