In summary
Reporting on the status of our SD Strategy commitments serves to clarify where we stand entering into the final year of the Agency's first SD Strategy.It has also reinforced where we must focus our attention.
We will need to address the resource issues that reduced the effectiveness of our planning, and renew our efforts to eliminate key gaps in our EMS relative to the ISO 14001 benchmark.The next step will be to strengthen EMS representation throughout the Agency that can be trained on the development and implementation of an ISO 14001 consistent EMS.We will also be working to further define individual operational accountabilities, to step-up communication and training on SD matters, and to fill in gaps in our performance measurement framework.
We will also be focusing our efforts on furthering the integration of SD into planning and reporting processes and establishing clear instructions on integrating SD aspects into the review of key documents.
Over the past three years, we moved forward substantially in organizing ourselves to implement our SD Strategy and to purposefully reduce the impact of CCRA operations on the environment.
We fell short in achieving all of our commitments scheduled for completion by March 31, 2000 due to a number of high priority challenges. Nevertheless, we learned important lessons about the ease of planning and the difficulties of implementing. We will incorporate these lessons in the preparation of the next generation SD Strategy.
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