The Environmental Performance Assessment System (EPAS) program was developed and implemented in 1991-92 in response to the recommendations made by EPA in 1986. When the program was known as ECAS (Environmental Compliance Assessment System), it assessed active Army installations for compliance with Federal, State, and DOD regulations. With the Army's development and implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) to comply with Executive Order 13148, 21 April 00 (and its eventual replacement, Executive Order 13423, 26 Jan 07), the expanded EPAS program now includes environmental management performance auditing. USAEC conducts risk-based scheduling to assess installations with greater environmental risk more frequently, while maintaining an assessment standard for installations with less environmental risk. The EPAS program assists all Army commanders in attaining, sustaining, and monitoring compliance with Federal, State, and local environmental laws and regulations, as well as DoD and Army compliance and performance requirements. EPAS external and internal multi-media assessments:

• Identify non-compliance with environmental regulations and non-conformance with the ISO 14001 environmental performance standard used by Army EMS;
• Provide suggestions for both immediate and long-term corrective actions; and
• Indicate resources needed for implementation.
• EPAS Software
• Army Regulation 200-1
  An extract of EPAS-related content from the 13 Dec 07 update to AR 200-1 is available on AKO (account required).
• Protocols and Team Guides
  • Available on FedCenter.gov (account required)
  • Instructions for registering and accessing these protocols are available on AKO (account required).
    • Federal TEAM Guide Supplement
    • Active Army, Reserve, National Guard Supplements
    • State Guide Supplement