Eliminating Contract Document Conflicts with Environmental Impact Assessment: An Example from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (1st December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: King, Thomas F.
• Is Part Of: Environmental practice. Volume 18:Number 4(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 270
• Page End: 273
• Publication Date: 2016-12-01
• Subjects: Environmental management -- Periodicals; Environmental engineering -- Periodicals; Environmental protection -- Periodicals; 333.7068
• DOI: 10.1017/S1466046616000478
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1466-0466

Abstract

Abstract : Government agencies, environmental consultants, and the public alike are frustrated by poor the coordination between agency planning and environmental impact assessment (EIA). Contracts for project design, construction, and management too often fail to provide for EIA, or to accommodate its results. A systematic review of standard contract documents and guidelines used by one major U.S. government agency revealed that they seldom took into account the need for EIA or provided for integrating the results of EIA into planning. Correcting these deficiencies was not very difficult. Other agencies may be well advised to undertake similar reviews.