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placed on environmental pollution control. For us to preserve our environment and our remaining resources, we must all be conscientious participants. The Navy is committed to operating its ships and shore facilities in a manner that is compatible with the environment. It is your responsibility as a supervisor to provide leadership and personal commitment to ensure that your personnel develop and exhibit an environmental protection ethic. Since this program contains such a vast amount of information and guidelines, we will not be able to cover more than a small part of the information. For a more comprehensive look at this program, read OPNAVINST. 5090.1. Due to the large impact of any noncompliance, there are outside activities such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to monitor your program operations. Remember, most environmental statutes impose criminal liability for willful or knowing violations. In some cases, individual service members may be charged with criminal liability if their actions, or inactions, meet the requirements for imposing liability. In the remaining segments of this section we will discuss some training tips and drill scenarios you may wish to use to better acquaint yourself and your personnel with this program. MONITOR PROGRAM OPERATIONS TRAINING AND DRILL EVALUATION Monitoring the environmental pollution control program’s operations is very important. This process can be very time consuming if proper training of all personnel is not done. As previously stated, this is not a one person program. It will take everybody’s efforts This section provides some useful lesson plans, training tips, drill scenarios, and evaluation grading forms for hazardous material spills. Figure 1-1 is a sample lesson plan you can use to instruct personnel on to make it work. response procedures for hazardous materials spills. Figure 1-1.—Sample lesson plan. 1-3