scope:

a. Environmental readiness encompasses all aspects of environmental compliance, planning, conservation, pollution prevention (P2), and remediation. The mission of the Navy's environmental readiness program is to ensure that U.S. Navy forces effectively train, test, and operate worldwide. Doing so in an environmentally responsible manner helps ensure continued access to land, air, and sea. The environmental readiness program provides Navy commanders, operators, design agents and life-cycle managers, installation managers, Navy military and civilian employees, and government contractors with comprehensive and effective policy guidance, tools, and training to support operational readiness and sustainability in compliance with environmental laws, regulations, and executive orders (E.O.) across the Navy enterprise.

b. This manual identifies and is consistent with applicable Federal, State, and local environmental laws, statutes, regulations; E.O.s; Department of the Navy (DON) regulations, requirements, and instructions; and Department of Defense (DoD) directives, instructions, and other issuances. It directs commands, when and where appropriate, to consult the applicable  DoD final governing standards (FGS) for host-nation-specific criteria, or the Overseas Environmental Baseline Guidance Document (OEBGD) when host-nation-specific FGSs have not been developed (see chapter 34 (Overseas Environmental Compliance Ashore) of this manual). It also establishes and provides Navy policy guidance for managing and complying with these requirements and assigns responsibility for their planning and execution. Directives set forth in this manual should be read in a manner consistent with higher guidance. All subsequent Navy environmental readiness program-related instructions, manuals, guidance, and directives derived from this manual must be aligned with the direction set forth herein.