NASA Procedures and Guidelines

Capital Investment Council is responsible for--

• Periodically reviewing the EMS for status and viability.

• Establishing and maintaining NASA Environmental Policy and Requirements.
  
• Defining and maintaining NPR 8553.1, NASA Environmental Management System.
  
• Establishing the environmental aspects.
  
• Establishing NASA EMS priority impact risk criteria.
  
• Evaluating Federal and State statutes, regulations, and executive orders that might apply to NASA locations.
  
• Regularly updating information on Federal and State statutes, regulations, and Executive orders.
  
• Ensuring that legal requirements information is communicated in a timely manner to the appropriate NASA Centers.
  
• Evaluating NASA-wide agreements and commitments.
  
• Establishing and maintaining documented Center objectives and targets consistent with the priority impacts derived from aspects.
  
• Establishing basic framework and structure of EMS.
  
• Establishing oversight and evaluations of Center operations through functional assessments, EMS audits, performance metrics, or other means to ascertain that appropriate environmental compliance and management techniques are used.
  
• Providing functional oversight and conducting functional assessments to ensure that environmental activities are conducted in accordance with statutory, regulatory, and fiduciary responsibilities.
  
• Establishing and maintaining programs and procedures for functional assessments.
  
• Reporting to the CIC on the results of the functional assessments and on the status and viability of the EMS.
  
• Establishing and documenting the management review.
  
• Reporting metrics through the Environmental Management Board (EMB), Enterprises, Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) process, or other means as established by the EMB.

• Implementing NASA Environmental Policy and Requirements.
  
• Reporting to NASA HQ EMD on meeting EMS progress and metrics as requested.
  
• Identifying and documenting Center activities (past, present, and future), products, and services (in the context of normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions).
  
• Determining the environmental aspects category and associated impact, of the documented activity, product, or service.
  
• Applying the EMS priority impact risk criteria.
  
• Setting and documenting the objectives and targets for the EMS high-priority impacts.
  
• Assigning objectives and targets to impacts that have been determined to be high priority impacts.
  
• Managing all other impacts so that they do not become high-priority impacts.
  
• Developing procedures for identification of applicable state, local, facility-specific, and permit-driven legal requirements and proposed changes to existing legal requirements.
  
• Evaluating NASA-wide agreements and commitments.
  
• Establishing and maintaining procedures for determining EMS training needs.
  
• Conducting training as required at each relevant level and function of the organization.
  
• Verifying and recording that the necessary EMS training has occurred.
  
• Internal communication between the various organizational levels.
  
• Receiving, recording, and responding to relevant communication from external parties.
  
• Establishing and maintaining procedures for document control.
  
• Documenting procedures for activities that have the potential to have significant deviations to environmental policy or this EMS.
  
• Implementing NPR 8715.2, NASA's Emergency Preparedness Plan Procedures and Requirements.
  
• Establishing and maintaining documented procedures to monitor and measure the key characteristics of NASA's operations that can have an EMS high-priority impact.
  
• Using Center ISO 9001 nonconformance and corrective action procedures for the EMS.
  
• Using NPR 1440.6, NASA Records Management, NPR 1441.1, Records Retention Schedules, and NPD 2800.1, Managing Information Technology, for this EMS.
  
• Retaining records of compliance activities in accordance with legal and regulatory guidelines.
  
• Supporting functional assessments as necessary to ensure that Center programs, projects, facilities, systems, and operations comply with all environmental requirements.
  
• Periodic review of conformance with EMS, including compliance with local environmental regulations.

• Assigning roles and responsibilities for the Center EMS Representative.
  
• Providing the authority needed for the Center EMS Representative to implement and maintain the Center EMS.
  
• Providing resources for the effective operation and maintenance of the EMS.
  
• Periodically reviewing Center EMS for status and viability.

• Documenting and communicating roles, responsibilities, and authorities to facilitate effective implementation of the Center EMS.
  
• Requesting resources for the effective operation and maintenance of the EMS.
  
• Having the authority necessary to implement and maintain the EMS.
  
• Establishing Center EMS Core Team or other means able to accomplish an equivalent function with assigned roles and responsibilities.
  
• Establishing, implementing, and maintaining EMS requirements.
  
• Periodically assessing, reviewing, and reporting on the condition of the EMS.
  
• Reporting to the Center Director and NASA HQ EMD on the results of the functional assessments and on the status and viability of the EMS.
  
• Reviewing Center objectives and targets.
  
• Reviewing the determination(s) of technical feasibility and economic reasonability where it was decided not to set objectives and targets to address high-priority impacts.

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