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IPAC officially opens its doors

9 May 2007 | Lance Cpl. Frederick Coleman Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-EMS

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. -- The Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Installation Personnel Administration Center, or IPAC, officially opened its doors with a ribbon cutting ceremony here Friday. 

Station commanding officer, Col. Christopher E. O’Connor performed the symbolic cutting of the ribbon and led attendees into the new facility for a tour and reception.

The facility is the best administrative facility in the Corps manned by some of the Corps’ top administrators, according to O’Connor.

Designed to consolidate the workload of all administration offices on station, the IPAC provides Marines a more streamlined system to quickly solve any administrative issues, explained Gunnery Sgt. Rogelio Haro, the noncommissioned officer-in-charge of customer service at IPAC here.

The new facility partnered with increased manpower means administrative issues are pinpointed and taken care of faster, explained Haro.

The new administration building handles all deployed units, units preparing to deploy and non-deploying elements aboard the station. 

“It’s a one-stop shop for any Marine or sailor with any administrative problem,” said Chief Warrant Officer 2 James St. Pierre, command support officer-in-charge, IPAC.

With the grand opening of Miramar’s new IPAC, the station joins Marine Corps bases in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and Twentynine Palms, Calif., that have also established IPACs.  The new consolidated shops bring these Marine installations in-line with the guidance provided in MARADMIN 214/05, which announced the requirement for IPAC facilities at all major Marine Corps installations.

The new facility resides in the refurbished building 8380, across the street from and just east of the airfield operations building. Hours of operation are from 7:30 a.m to 4.30 p.m, Monday through Friday.  For more information, call 858-577-4722.

POLICY

The most important starting point for an EMS* is the development of an environmental policy. ISO14001 requires local governments to implement their own environmental policy. The environmental policy acts as a basis for the environmental management system.

PLANNING

ISO14001 requires that an environmental management system is planned properly. It requires the organization to consider the following carefully: Environmental Aspects; Legal and Other Aspects; Objectives and Targets; and an Environmental Management Program.

IMPLEMENTATION

The two requirements for implementation of an EMS is to define, document, and communicate roles, responsibilities and authorities, and to allocate the resources needed to implement and control the EMS.

CHECKING

The key requirement in this EMS step is to regularly monitor and measure key characteristics of activities and operations that could have a significant impact on the environment. Changes to EMS procedures may become necessary in order to deal with nonconformances with the EMS, with mitigating environmental impacts, or corrective and preventive action.

REVIEW

The management review process ensure that information is collected to enable management to carry out proper review. Top management review the need for changes to policy, objectives and targets, and ensure that a commitment to continual improvement is being demonstrated.

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