Environmental Planning
Careful planning precedes all of TVA’s environmental activities. Regulations are reviewed, needs are defined, and targets and objectives are set. The planning process includes these topics:
Environmental review process
- Sets out a standardized process for TVA to follow in ensuring compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act.
- Ensures TVA-wide consistency in conducting environmental reviews and in implementing, tracking, and closing environmental commitments.
- Directs the conduct and documentation of environmental reviews appropriately, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
Environmental regulatory and legislative review and outlook
- Provides TVA with regulatory and legislative interpretation and guidance.
- Identifies and evaluates environmental regulatory and legislative issues that affect TVA.
- Defines and coordinates responsive actions.
Objectives and targets
- Directs how TVA establishes, communicates, and maintains environmental objectives and targets.
- Establishes the annual review and analysis of environmental aspects and impacts of TVA’s operations and activities.
- Develops, maintains, and reports on the Environmental Impact Index.