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The Army's Overarching Vision for Environmental Cleanup communicates its commitment to cleaning up environmental contamination.

In April 2003, the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations and Environment, directed that environmental restoration and compliance-related cleanup be unified under a single Army Environmental Cleanup Strategy. The Army Environmental Cleanup Strategy integrates the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) for Active Installations, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), overseas remediation, and the compliance-related cleanup program.

The purpose of this consolidation is to optimize program efficiency, accountability, and consistency by applying common objectives and requirements to all cleanups associated with past and current Army operations in support of installations and transforming the Army.

An important aspect of the Army Cleanup Program is tracking and reporting costs associated with environmental restoration, corrective actions, and response actions. Additionally, costs associated with environmental activities related to facility closures or activity terminations must also be tracked and reported. These costs are reported as Environmental Liabilities on the Army's various financial statements.

The Army Environmental Cleanup Strategy is a roadmap to guide the Army in attaining its environmental cleanup vision. The Cleanup Strategic Plan for FY08/09 identifies a framework for implementing the Cleanup Strategy during fiscal years 2008-2009.

There are nine objectives under the Army Environmental Cleanup Strategy:

1. Ensure prompt action to address imminent and substantial threats to human health, public safety, and the environment.
2. Conduct appropriate, cost-effective efforts to identify, evaluate, and, where necessary to protect public safety or human health and the environment, conduct response actions to address contamination resulting from past DOD activities. Maintain relevant cleanup information in a permanent archive.
3. Comply with statutes, regulations, executive orders, and other external requirements governing cleanup.

4. Ensure that Army regulations, policies, and guidance are developed within the framework of the Cleanup Strategy.
5. Plan, program, budget, and execute cleanups in accordance with DOD and Army directives and guidance using validated, auditable, site-level data.
6. Develop cleanup partnerships with appropriate federal, Tribal, state, local, territorial, or host-nation authorities.
7. Promote and support public stakeholder participation in the cleanup process, as appropriate, and make site-level cleanup information available to the public.
8. Support the development and use of cost-effective cleanup approaches and technologies to improve program efficiency.
9. Perform semiannual program management reviews of cleanup progress against established targets, and conduct periodic reviews of sites where contamination remains in place.