Environmental Management System Implementation Update , AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways, August 2006. Includes details on EMS efforts at 11 state DOTs and one transportation district. Report is available at:
http://www.environment.transportation.org/pdf/
environ_mgmt_sys/EMSreport.pdf.

EMS templates, directives, tools, modules, and fact sheets available through the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive at http://www.ofee.gov/ems/ems.asp.

Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management , Executive Order 13423, January 24, 2007, available from http://www.ofee.gov/whats/whatsnew.asp.

Instructions for Implementing Executive Order 13423, March 29, 2007, available at:
http://www.ofee.gov/eo/eo13423_instructions.pdf.

Environmental Information Management and Decision Support System for Transportation: The Results of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 25-23, Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) National Broadcast Series, June 24, 2004, available at:
http://itre.ncsu.edu/CTE/TechTransfer/Teleconferences/docs/tc30handout.pdf.

AASHTO’s Practitioner’s Handbook 04, Tracking Compliance with Environmental Commitments/Use of Environmental Monitors (November 2006) – “A system for tracking environmental commitments made in the NEPA process could be implemented as part of an EMS.” Available at:
http://www.environment.transportation.org/pdf/PG04.pdf.

EPA-330/9-97-002R, Compliance-Focused Environmental Management System – Enforcement Agreement Guidance (June 2005), Provides “…particular emphasis on adopting EMSs to achieve improved environmental performance, including compliance, pollution prevention, and continual improvement in all areas, regulated and unregulated.” Compliance agreements for several DOTs require EMSs. Available at:
http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/resources/policies/neic/cfems_05.pdf.

FHWA’s Successes in Stewardship, Monthly Newsletter (May 2006) – “… EMS can better equip agencies with the information, resources, strategy, and feedback they need to improve their performance and reduce their environmental impact.” Available at:
http://environment.fhwa.dot.gov/strmlng/newsletters/may06nl.asp.

FHWA has supported and encouraged the use of EMSs for several years. For example, the July 23, 2002 Memorandum titled Environmental Management Systems (EMS) as a tool to demonstrate Environmental Stewardship (signed by Cynthia J. Burbank, Associate Administrator for Planning, Environment, and Real Estate Services) states “FHWA… continues to support EMS as a strategy for demonstrating environmental stewardship.” Available at:
http://nepa.fhwa.dot.gov/ReNEPA/ReNepa.nsf/All+Documents/
55BADE4D4721131485256C02004FED51/$FILE/EMSMemor.doc.

Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance,
http://www.mswg.org

US EPA EMS Resources, Publications, and other information,
http://www.epa.gov/ems/resources/index.htm.

EMS Software Assessment, under Cooperative Agreement 82886901, Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF), March 15, 2004, available at:
http://www.environment.transportation.org/pdf/
ISOSoftwareAssessPaperFINAL031504.pdf.