Environmental Technical Assistance

The USAEC provides technical assistance to other Army organizations and installation staff. If you are unsure how to contact one of our subject matter experts, please use the Ask USAEC form. There are a number of environmental program areas USAEC's subject matter experts can help with including:

• Environmental Quality
  • Clean Air Clean
  • Clean Water/Safe Drinking Water Act
  • Hazardous Waste, Release Management
  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • Threatened and Endangered Species
  • Integrated Natural Resources Planning
  • Conservation Reimbursable Programs
  • Pest Management
  • Archeological Site Protection
  • Historic Building Preservation
  • Native American Affairs
  • Integrated Cultural Resources Planning

• Environmental Cleanup
  • Active Sites Cleanup
  • Compliance Cleanup (including overseas)
  • Groundwater Extraction and Treatment Effectiveness Review
  • Natural Resource Trustee and Natural Resource Injury Support
  • Principles of Environmental Restoration
  • Remedial Technologies

• Environmental Program Support
  • Environmental Cleanup Reporting
  • Environmental Liabilities
  • Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
  • Environmental Performance Assessment System
  • Environmental Quality Acquisition Support
  • Environmental Quality Reporting
  • Environmental Regulatory Monitoring
  • Environmental Technology
  • Installation Status Reporting
  • Ecological Risk Assessment
  • Human Health Risk Assessment

• Environmental Program Initiatives
  • Army Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB)
  • Emerging Contaminants
  • Environmental Quality Technology
  • Geophysical/Geotechnical Assistance
  • Hazardous Materials Management Program
  • Range Assessments

The Army established the U.S. Army Environmental Command to house all this expertise in a centralized organization. While the command falls under the Installation Management Command from a reporting standpoint, the support the command provides is intended for all Army installations, organizations and activities. These Communities of Practice are used to gather together environmental staffs with the same interests, concerns, and problems, to help each other learn, solve problems, build skills and competencies and develop best practices. If you are interested in joining one or learning more about them, please use the Ask AEC to let us know your interest.

USAEC established Communities of Practice (CoP) in a number of areas:

• Air
• Water
• Waste
• Environmental Management Systems
• Integrated Pest Management
• Natural Resources
• Cultural Resources
• Resilient Sustainability

USAEC will continue to grow and evolve the communities of practice to best serve their members and provide the services, products and support needed to help installations with their environmental program challenges.

• Increase flow and reach of high quality environmental technical information
• Quickly address problems and issues
• Identify challenges needing enterprise-based solutions
• Prevent loss of knowledge
• Eliminate "reinventing the wheel"
• Save time and dollars
• Provide a forum for Army environmental professionals to learn and grow

Environmental Community of Practice article by Michael Dette in the Public Works Digest Apr-May-Jun 2013 edition, page 20, identifies the leads for each of the USAEC communities of practice.