Recertified in November 2015
Environmental Progress
Maintaining environment - Holston Army Ammunition Plant successfully
completed an ISO 14001 registration audit of its Environmental Management
System (EMS) and has received third party registration of its environmental
management system on November 2015. HSAAP began implementing the ISO 14001
EMS in 2004 in response to Executive Order 13148 requiring all Federal
facilities to have an EMS in place by 31 December 2005. HSAAP achieved this
implementation milestone on target. Although full EMS conformance was not
required until FY 2009 and did not require third party independent
certification, BAE Systems, operating contractor for HSAAP, and the Army made
the decision to pursue third party registration ahead of schedule and was the
first to do so. As is the practice at Holston, staying ahead of the game is
vital to ensuring environmental compliance and stewardship. Holston currently
has a number of environmental initiatives in different stages, i.e. water
conservation which has resulted in substantial savings; replacing fluorescent
lighting with LED lighting; and the Recycling Program which has been
tremendously successful, along with other initiatives that are improving and
protecting our environment.
