Book excerpt: This guide is designed to provide a useful environmental reference for each activity in the real property management process. It covers a wide variety of topics including management issues such as acquisition, leasing, licensing and disposal, as well as day-to-day operational and maintenance issues such as air quality, PCB management, building cleaning and waste management. Each stage of the life cycle (planning, acquisition and disposal, design, construction, commissioning, demolition and dismantling, operation and maintenance) is covered in a separate chapter, which gives a brief description of the significance of the subject and the approach the federal government takes to it, describes the process and procedures in detail, and contains titles of related legislation, policies, regulations, codes, standards, specifications and advisory publications.