Please address each of the following topics, and feel free to attach supporting documentation.

Identification of Environmental Impacts:
Describe your facility’s process for identifying and evaluating its environmental impacts. At a minimum, please include a list of your most significant environmental impacts.

Setting Objectives & Targets:
Please include a list of your goals (objectives) for reducing environmental impacts. Ideally, objectives would include numerical goals with projects designed to achieve these goals. The objectives should include targets, or a schedule for completing tasks and/or achieving the stated objectives.

Pollution Prevention:
In a typical EMS structure, objectives and targets may only address the impacts identified as the most “significant.” For the Pollution PrOddtion section, please feel free to list any other environmental projects that you have ongoing or planned. If possible, please include quantified reductions realized or expected and any cost savings.

E2 Environmental Results & Commitments:
Your facility will be required to report annually on the results of your EMS and Pollution PrOddtion efforts (annual reports due April 1st of each year). Establishing baseline data and tracking results is necessary in order to evaluate the effectiveness of your EMS. A comprehensive EMS may address a wide array of environmental impacts: solid waste, water use, wastewater, energy usage, air impacts, etc.

The ability to measure and report progress is also very important to the administration and success of the Virginia Environmental Excellence Program. We hope that your facility will establish baselines and track progress on all of the environmental measures that you are addressing through your EMS. At a minimum, E2 facilities are required to commit to track EMS results in at least 1 of the following categories:

• Air Emissions
• Energy Use
• Water Discharges
• Water Use
• Waste
• Material Use
• Land Use
• Product Performance
• Other

Facilities are encouraged to focus on one or more of the “indicators” within a category (listed below) when tracking progress and reporting annually to DEQ (although an option of “other” for indicator is available in each category). In the annual report, you will be expected to provide a quantifiable baseline and results for the past year’s efforts in these categories.