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YOKOSUKA, Japan - Naval Facilities Engineering Command Far East’s Public Works Department Yokosuka Environmental Division recently won two U.S. Forces Japan Installation Environmental Excellence Awards and was runner-up in two more award categories for 2013.
Commander Navy Region Japan environmental liaison informed PWD Yokosuka Environmental Conservation Branch Chief Chuck Sayon via email Aug. 28 that the command had won the awards.
“We won the pollution prevention award and the spill response capability and remediation awards,” Sayon said. “We were runner up for the natural resources protection and the environmental compliance program awards.”
Last year, PWD Yokosuka Environmental won in the environmental compliance category, finishing second in the pollution prevention category.
“This couldn’t have been accomplished without the support of all of the organizations which make up FLEACT Yokosuka,” said PWD Yokosuka environmental director Jack Gilbertsen. “Last year’s awards tally certainly proved that we have a great working team here at PWD Yokosuka Environmental, and that great effort continued into 2013 despite a challenging year of personnel vacancies and transfers, fiscal uncertainty and furloughs.”
PWD Yokosuka Environmental has won at least one USFJ environmental award every year since 2008.
“We have a good track record of winning awards and getting repeats,” Gilbertsen said. “This year we did an exceptionally good job.”
The award categories and criteria are:
• The Pollution Prevention Award: A program must exist on the base which aggressively promotes educational awareness on hazardous material/waste reduction, recycling, recovery and reuse programs. An effective environmental program must exist for managing polychlorinated biphenyl, air emissions, drinking water, waste water, hazardous material and waste, solid waste, medical waste, pesticides, asbestos, and underground storage tanks.
• The Spill Response Capability and Remediation Award: The base must prevent, control, and report petroleum, oil and lubricants spills, and hazardous substance releases. The installation must have a program that provides a prompt and well-coordinated response to contain and cleanup spills and/or releases that might occur.
• The Natural Resource Protection Award: An effective base level program must exist, which properly protects, enhances, and manages both U.S. and Japanese historic and cultural resources, and threatened and/or endangered plants and animals set forth in the Japanese Environmental Governing Standards.
• The Environmental Compliance Programs Award: The installation must have taken corrective actions to eliminate an environmental shortfall noted during an audit report from either the Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Compliance Assessment and Management Program, Environmental Compliance Assessment System, or Environmental Compliance Evaluation.
FLEACT, Yokosuka environmental programs provide environmental stewardship for 83 tenant commands and activities which encompass 30,000 military and civilian personnel in 5,000 buildings, spread out over 1,700 acres and 8,200 feet of berths.
This includes logistic, recreational and administrative support and services to U.S. Naval Forces Japan, U.S. 7th Fleet and other forces assigned to the Western Pacific.
| Date Taken: | 09.05.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 09.25.2013 03:20 |
| Story ID: | 114225 |
| Location: | YOKOSUKA, KANAGAWA, JP |
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