Mission: The
Environmental Office leads the department in proactively integrating
transportation and environmental objectives and innovations as
the department plans, develops, operates and maintains Maine's
transportation needs.
Throughout Maine DOT's
major planning and policy documents its environmental vision and
plans are outlined. Pages 21 of the Twenty
Year Plan (Fall 2003 revisions being drafted), page 19 of
the Six Year Plan,
and 21 of the Biennial
Transportation Improvement Program and other pages of those
documents provide detailed descriptions of ways in which the Department
integrates environmental stewardship objectives in plans and projects
throughout the Department.
The Department also
adopted an environmental
policy statement in 1998 and revised it in 2004. This
policy, rooted in the Sensible
Transportation Policy Act of 1991, and the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, is the guidepost for all
steps taken by the Department to protect and enhance the natural
and cultural environment in Maine.
Even MaineDot's maintenance
and operations practices are managed with an eye towards protecting
the environment. MaineDOT maintains a successful Environmental
Management System (EMS). Descriptions of this program are
found as a component of the:
