Winter 2003-2004
                                                                              ISSUE #16
   United States
   Environmental Protection
   Agency
an environmental bulletin for federal facilities
Feds  Embrace  Pollution  Prevention
A    familiar  adage  asserts, "an ounce of
    prevention is worth a pound of cure."
This certainly holds true for federal agen-
cies  which use  pollution  prevention
(P2) and environmental stewardship
strategies in their facility operations.
   The federal government is the nation's
largest consumer of raw materials, power,
water and other products, and also gener-
ates harmful wastes which may adversely
impact people and the environment. The
increasing costs and comprehensive regu-
latory requirements for managing waste
create  incentives for  federal facilities to
reduce the amount of hazardous materials
used and wastes generated.
   Federal agencies have reduced their
environmental impacts and  costs associ-
ated with managing wastes by incorporat-
ing P2 into facility operations and their
environmental  management systems.
Some activities are voluntary, but many
are required by statute, regulation  or
Executive Order.
   Most recently, Executive Order 13148
requires federal agencies to "comply with
environmental regulations  by establish-
ing  and  implementing...policies that
  Inside
3    EMS and P2
6    Partnerships
9    Green Procurement
10   Healthcare
11   E-Cycling
13   Green/Alternative Power
14   P2
20   In the Spotlight
23   Selected P2 Internet Resources
24   Post-ROD Issues; Enforcement News
26   In Brief
27   Federal Agency Compliance Tracking
     System (FACTS)
28   Upcoming Events
         emphasize pollution  prevention  as  a
         means to both  achieve and maintain
         environmental  compliance."  Pollution
         prevention therefore, can also be an effec-
         tive compliance strategy by eliminating
         or reducing  pollution to  begin  with,
         rather than having to store, treat, or oth-
         erwise deal with it after it is created.
            For instance,  federal facilities which
         minimize or eliminate RCRA waste will
         not be responsible for treating, transport-
         ing, and storing that waste. A facility that
         avoids using chemicals found on the Toxic
         Release Inventory will have nothing to
         report to EPA. By implementing energy
         saving strategies, a facility can lower its
         electric bill and reduce pollution caused
         by power generation.  Pollution  preven-
         tion strategies are endless,  but the over-
         all benefit can  be summed up  as less
         time,  energy, and money spent on report-
         ing, storing, and treating pollution and
         waste.
            The federal government is also in a
         unique position to demonstrate leader-
         ship by embracing and employing P2 and
         environmentally sustainable  strategies
         in facility operations. By purchasing
         "green"  (less toxic and environmentally
         "friendly"  products and materials), the
         government  creates demand  for goods
         and products with recycled  content stan-
         dards in its procurement contracts.
            P2 is a sound strategy to help facilities
         avoid pollution control costs, reduce envi-
         ronmental liability, and improve  produc-
         tion efficiency. In the last few years, fed-
         eral agencies significantly increased their
         P2 and environmental stewardship activ-
         ities,  cultivated  new  P2  partnerships,
         and  continue to look  for new ways to
         improve  efficiency,  reduce  waste,  and
         build  P2 strategies into facility operation.
         We highlight a few of these activities in
         this issue, and look forward to hearing
         about more innovative practices  in the
         future.
  Environmental
  Spotlight
PARTNERING FOR
POLLUTION PREVENTION
By Ken Zarker, Chair, National Pollution
Prevention Roundtable

                    ;enty  years  ago,
                    le federal govern-
                ment helped  popular-
                ize the idea that "pol-
                lution     prevention
                pays" and is  the path
                toward  a more  sus-
tainable  and  secure  environmental
future. Today, more than ever, the fed-
eral government is in a leadership posi-
tion to  help maintain and foster the
efforts of both public and private entities
alike. Key to continued success of many
pollution prevention programs  is strong
partnerships between federal, state and
local   governments,  Continued on page 2
A
  ABOUT THIS  ISSUE...
  Several months ago we asked our federal
  facility partners, sister agencies, states and
  others to tell us about pollution prevention
  (P2) and stewardship activities being devel-
  oped and implemented at federal facilities.
  We received many responses and this issue
  spotlights some of the innovative programs
  and practices employed throughout the fed-
  eral government. We've featured a few pol-
  lution prevention  and  stewardship areas,
  including recycling, environmentally prefer-
  able purchasing, energy efficiency and
  alternatives, partnerships, and healthcare.
  Our goal is two-fold: to applaud and show-
  case some of  the good work being done
  around the federal  government; and pro-
  mote and provide information to others inter-
  ested in  implementing  similar programs or
  strategies at their facilities.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SPOTLIGHT
Continued from page 1
community  groups,  industry and  busi-
ness.
   As chair of the National Pollution Pre-
vention Roundtable (NPPR),  and P2 Sec-
tion Manager of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality, I've watched the
genesis and growth  of pollution preven-
tion programs  here  in Texas, and also
nationally.  Many  of these programs
evolved from partnerships  among a vari-
ety of groups, whose  collective experience
and dedication made impressive inroads
integrating  pollution  prevention  into
facility and governmental operations.
   Partnerships - especially those among
governmental entities  - may  be  even
more  critical now since many state and
local programs are facing significant bud-
get cuts and reductions to their core pol-
lution prevention programs.
   Some of the best opportunities to part-
ner with  federal facilities are through
national and regional pollution  preven-
tion networks,   such  as  NPPR.  The
Roundtable  is the largest  pollution pre-
vention membership organization in the
United States, and  provides a national
forum  for  promoting  the  development,
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 The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is the largest organization in the United States
 devoted solely to pollution prevention. The Roundtable promotes the development, implementa-
 tion, and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at the source. For more
 information  about the NPPR, and how you and your organization can get involved, visit
 http://www.p2.org. To learn more about the NPPR Federal Facilities Discussion Group, visit:
 http://www.p2.org/federal
    The National Environmental Assistance Providers' Summit will be held April 17 - 22, 2004 in
 Baltimore, Md. For more information visit: http://www.p2.org/summit2004
implementation, and evaluation of efforts
to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at
the source.
   The    Roundtable's    membership
includes state, local, tribal and  federal
governments, non-profit  organizations,
trade associations, academic institutions,
private  industry, small business develop-
ment centers, and NIST-sponsored manu-
facturing extension programs. Public sec-
tor  members, located in every  state and
internationally,  operate  programs that
provide pollution prevention information
and technical assistance to thousands of
industrial, commercial, and agricultural
facilities  each year. This  information
helps many facilities reduce operational
costs and improve environmental compli-
ance.  The  result is  improved  efficiency,
increased competitiveness, and a better
environment.
   Much of the Roundtable's work is done
through  workgroups and  discussion
groups.  These groups focus on a variety of
P2  issues  and strategies, including  P2
policy and program integration, research
and technology transfer and innovation,
education and training, and small busi-
ness. Homeland  security,  energy  effi-
ciency, healthcare, and environmentally
preferable purchasing  are  also  specific
focus areas for discussion groups.
  In 2003, NPPR formed a Federal Facil-
ities  Discussion  Group.  The  Federal
Facilities Discussion Group is exploring
ways  to  build  closer  relationships
between federal facilities and P2 commu-
nities, better  integrate P2 into environ-
mental management systems, share best
P2  practices among federal facilities,  as
well as develop and collaborate on P2 pro-
jects. I encourage environmental  practi-
tioners at federal facilities to personally
get involved, and share your projects and
innovations with your colleagues.
   Federal facilities will be interested in
the NPPR's most recent P2 Policy Paper
on Homeland Security. This paper begins
to define the relationship between pollu-
tion prevention and homeland security,
explores roles the pollution  prevention
community can  play in improving home-
land security, and provides specific pollu-
tion prevention  recommendations to the
federal  government,  state   agencies,
industry,  and  other  Continued on page 9
  NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE SUMMIT:
  Prevent Pollution, Achieve Compliance and Innovate
  for Environmental Results
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is co-sponsoring with the National Pollution Prevention
  Roundtable a spring conference entitled "National Environmental Assistance Summit" to be held
  April 19-22,2004, in Baltimore, Md. The Summit will convene individuals who work in the environ-
  mental assistance arena.  Industry, small business and trade association  representatives are
  encouraged to attend and  provide their perspectives on environmental assistance. Sessions will
  focus on pollution prevention, compliance assistance, environmental policy innovations, environ-
  mental management systems, sustainability and best practices. Three EPA Offices, (Compliance,
  Pollution  Prevention and Toxics and the National Center for Environmental Innovation)  have
  worked with the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable. The goal of the Summit is for members
  of the environmental assistance  community — those who create, fund, deliver and receive it to
  learn from each other how  best to improve environmental performance. For more information or to
  register for the conference, go to: http://www.p2.org/summit2004.
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                                                                                                     EMS  and P2
How  is an  EMS Like  a  Christmas Tree?
                                        went through the trouble of getting a tree
                                        and left it as is. On the  other hand, the
                                        tree  is the  essential infrastructure for
                                        ornaments  and decorations, making  it
                                        unique  to  the home.  Although these
                                        adornments are what make the home fes-
                                        tive, and add the most value to the tree,
                                        without the tree itself,  there is  only a
                                        messy, unorganized pile of ornaments.
                                           The EMS, then is the framework upon
                                        which a facility builds its environmental
                                        management efforts. Although the EMS
                                        model is  the framework, it needs "orna-
                                        ments" to serve the organization. Orna-
                                        ments   in
                                                        A commitment to preventing
                                                      pollution is a cornerstone of an
                                                        effective EMS and should be
                                                        reflected in an organization's
                                                      policy, objectives and other EMS
                                                                   elements.
this context
are aspects,
objectives,
procedures,
etc., - basic
EMS   ele-
ments.  As
with   the
   Over the last few months, I've come to
   realize that folks are always looking
for understandable, day-to-day analogies
to explain the environmental  manage-
ment system (EMS) concept. Years ago,
when EMS  was really  coming on  the
American radar screen, I used the anal-
ogy, "An EMS is like a Christmas tree" to
help explain  an  EMS.  I'm  resurrecting
this analogy here and hope it helps.

A Recognizable Image
When someone says "Christmas tree", an
image immediately comes to mind. Even
though there are many variations of tree,
differences  are  small enough  that an
overall basic image comes to mind.
  When one says, "EMS",  a particular
approach to dealing with environmental
issues  should come to  mind, especially
when using a recognizable model such as
ISO 14001. Actually, ISO 14001 elements
are  so well defined and used in the only
real globally recognized model, that say-
ing  "ISO 14001" is equivalent to naming
the tree a Douglas Fir.

A Simple Framework
A Christmas tree itself is rather plain and
generic, and without adornment serves
no  real  purpose. You  would  be hard
pressed to find a home or business that

  WE NEED  YOUR INPUT!
  EPA, in conjunction with the Executive Order 13148 Inter-Agency Workgroup, is developing a tool
  to assist federal facilities incorporate green purchasing into the development and implementation
  of their environmental management system (EMS). Many federal facilities are currently either
  developing or implementing their EMS in anticipation of the December 2005 deadline set by Exec-
  utive Order 13148. These activities are an excellent opportunity to assist in EMS development by
  providing information on how green purchasing programs relate to the various elements of the EMS
  framework. EPA expects this effort to result in: 1) greater interest by federal facilities in including
  green purchasing in their EMS; 2) EMS-based management tools that can help federal facilities
  maximize benefits of their green purchasing program; 3) case studies showing how federal facili-
  ties are incorporating green purchasing into their EMS.
    The last item is where you can help. EPA would like to learn how your facility integrated green
  purchasing into its EMS. If you have examples and case studies about how your facility did this,
  please send them directly to EPA contractor Tom Wallace at: wallacet@saic.com. For more infor-
  mation, please contact: Holly Elwood, U.S. EPA  at: elwood.holly@epa.gov, (202) 564-8854; Carole
  Bell, SAIC, EPA Contractor at: bellca@saic.com, (401) 848-4756; or Tom Wallace (434) 293-8728.
                                        ance  procedures, operational  controls)
                                        and specialty items such as energy reduc-
                                        tion objectives or NEPA applications. The
                                        degree of complexity is  driven  by  the
                                        organization's goals  and character more
                                        so than the tree structure itself.
Performance vs. Process
The best decorated tree does not guaran-
tee a festive home, but it sure goes a long
way to helping that cause. And, without
ornaments, the tree doesn't have a chance
to succeed in this purpose.
    An EMS will not guarantee improved
               environmental perfor-
               mance, but  it  will cer-
               tainly help the facility's
               chances.  And, without
               using the EMS to sup-
               port activities and meet
               specific goals, it is noth-
               ing more than a frame-
               work.
                                        tree,  with-
                                        out the framework, the organization runs
                                        the risk of having a messy, unorganized
                                        pile  of environmental  programs and
                                        efforts.
                                           Ornaments vary from basic, typical
                                        items such as lights and garland, to more
                                        specialty and unique items such as spe-
                                        cial  ornaments and keepsakes.  In an
                                        EMS, there  are basic elements (compli-
                                         Lessons Learned
                                         So what does this analogy tell us?
                                           Without "personalizing" and  actually
                                         adding  substance to and nurturing the
                                         EMS model chosen, an organization can-
                                         not expect notable performance improve-
                                         ments.
                                           If we want the EMS to do something
                                         specific, we need to build those  require-
                                         ments into the elements. For example, if
                                         we want a tree to fit a colonial theme, it is
                                         up to us to add the right ornaments. If we
                                         want an EMS to ensure proactive commu-
                                         nity involvement, it has to be built in as a
                                         specific  requirement. The EMS  element
                                         prompt  for an external communication
                                         procedure alone will not do that.
                                           The  EMS  infrastructure,  even when
                                         "decorated", does not guarantee perfor-
                                         mance,  but it surely goes a long way in
                                         that direction. It is certainly  better than
                                         having nothing at all. But, unlike a  tree,
                                         if properly nurtured, the EMS, hopefully,
                                         will not die every year!

                                         Ed Pinero, Office of the Federal
                                         Environmental Executive
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EMS and P2
EMS and P2 Efforts Change  Regulatory Status at
Defense  Supply Center, Richmond
   The Defense  Supply  Center, Rich-
   mond's  (DSCR) environmental man-
agement system (EMS) not only ensures
compliance with Executive Order 13148,
but also enhances mis-
sion     performance,
reduces pollution, and
underscores its com-
mitment to environ-
mental  stewardship.
DSCR's P2 efforts also
impacted their regula-
tory      compliance
requirements   under
the Clean Air Act.
   DSCR is a 600-acre warehouse  and
office facility located just south of Rich-
mond, Va. Residential communities  sur-
round the Center. As part of the Defense
Logistics Agency, DSCR procures, stores,
and distributes aviation spare parts for
the Department of Defense.  DSCR  also
manages the   Ozone Depleting Sub-
stances reserve and hazardous property
storage.
  DSCR's P2 efforts also
impacted their regulatory
compliance requirements
 under the Clean Air Act.
  In past years, 58 commercial oil fired
boilers used at DSCR emitted 100 tons of
sulfur dioxide, and were regulated under
Title V of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Sulfur
               dioxide  is linked to
               acid rain, a potential
               detriment to  local,
               state,  and regional
               watersheds      and
               forests.
                 DSCR's P2  efforts
               shifted them from  a
               major source subject
               to CAA Title V permit
               requirements, into the
CAA's Synthetic Minor category. As a syn-
thetic minor,  DSCR agreed to limit and
control  the number of hours it ran its
boilers  and generators. Emissions from
the same boilers were  reduced to slightly
over seven tons.
  This reduction in  air  emissions has
allowed the Virginia Department of Envi-
ronmental  Quality (VADEQ) to issue
DSCR one operating permit to cover the
operation of all the boilers, instead of the
multiple ones previously needed.
   DSCR was  able  to  achieve these
results by retrofitting the boilers to burn
#2 fuel oil and natural gas, both  having
a lower sulfur content than the previous
fuel source. Also, boiler operation was
reviewed and  modernized to  ensure
maximum  operating efficiencies.  The
compliant control and operation of these
boilers are part of DSCR's  evolving
EMS.
   The Center's  pollution  prevention
efforts have benefited  the local  and
regional environment and its communi-
ties, saved taxpayer dollars by  saving
operational and material costs, and freed
both DSCR and VADEQ to spend time
and effort on other more pressing envi-
ronmental and mission related matters. A
win-win all around.
   Questions about this initiative  may be
addressed to Jimmy Parrish, DSCR Envi-
ronmental  Office, 804-279-6949,  Jimmy.
Parrish@dla.mil.
San Antonio Missions  Receive ISO  Certification
   San Antonio Missions National Histori-
   cal Park recently became the first unit
of the Department of Interior's National
Park System (NFS) to have an environ-
mental  management system  (EMS) in
place in accordance with Executive Order
13148,  and registered  under the  ISO
14001.
  San  Antonio  Missions  has  been
involved in environmental protection and
committed   considerable  time   and
resources  to correct regulatory problems
found in park-wide audits.  In 2001, the
park volunteered to participate in an EPA
environmental management review. Joyce
Stubblefield of EPA Region 6 served as the
on-site  coordinator for the review.  The
resulting  report offered  several  recom-
mendations including the selection of an
                EMS framework for the park. After con-
                sultations with Dr. Michael Schene, Envi-
                ronmental Officer  for the NFS Inter-
                mountain  Region,  the  ISO   14001
                standard  was adopted to guide future
                park EMS efforts.
                   Dr. Schene and  a contractor assisted
                the park in the implementation process.
                A  Compliance  Improvement Manage-
                ment System (CIMS) multi-disciplinary
                team  consisting of Dan  Steed, Chief
                Ranger and team leader; Gloria Gonza-
                les, Administrative Officer; Elizabeth
                Dupree,  Chief of  Interpretation; David
                Vekasy, Chief of Maintenance; Michael
                Johnson, Acting Chief of Professional Ser-
                vices; and  Kurt  Schoenberger,  Park
                Safety Advisor was established. Initially,
                an Environmental Policy Statement was
                                     developed and signed by Superintendent
                                     Stephen E. Whitesell and the members of
                                     the CIMS  Team. This policy guides all
                                     environmental initiatives in the park and
                                     was  distributed  to  all employees,  part-
                                     ners, and interested parties. San Antonio
                                     Missions was certified as ISO 14001 com-
                                     pliant on June 5, 2003.
                                        This  past August,  Federal Environ-
                                     mental Executive John  Howard visited
                                     the park with members  of his staff and
                                     EPA representatives to learn more about
                                     the park's EMS, its importance to protect-
                                     ing human health and the environment,
                                     and  its  role  in  improving overall  park
                                     management.
                                        For additional information contact
                                     Joyce Stubblefield at: stubblefield.joyce®
                                     epa.gov.
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                                                                                                   EMS and P2
P2 at Brookhaven  National  Laboratory
   Since  Brookhaven  National  Labora-
   tory  initiated its  pollution  preven-
tion  (P2) program at its Upton, Long
Island site in 1991, it has saved money
and reduced waste from its routine lab-
oratory  operations by 70  percent. Its
environmental stewardship policy,  the
keystone of  Brookhaven's environmen-
tal management system, integrates P2
into  all work  planning.  In  2001,
Brookhaven  became  the first national
laboratory to be ISO 14001 certified.
   Brookhaven's  P2  Council is a lab-
level committee,  and  is essential in the
development, management, and promo-
tion  of  laboratory-wide  P2  initiatives
and  waste   minimization policies and
programs. It is chaired by a P2 Coordi-
nator, and   has  representatives from
each of Brookhaven's nine directorates.
Top-level management participates  in
P2 decision-making. This broad, partici-
patory  approach  has   resulted   in
improved awareness  and participation
by all employees  from  a variety  of
offices. Participation  of  scientific staff
especially has increased.
   The  P2   Council also  manages
Brookhaven's  Return-On-Investment
(ROI) program, which is  key to demon-
strating  continued  improvement  of
Brookhaven's EMS. Annually, the Coun-
cil reviews and ranks lab-wide P2 pro-
posals according to established criteria
and  funding allocations. The  criteria
support  Laboratory  goals, regulatory
requirements, and DOE orders. Key cri-
teria include: 1)  reduction or elimina-
tion of priority waste  streams; 2) toxics-
use reduction; and 3) good  return on
invested funds as measured by the pay-
back period.  Each year, the criteria are
reviewed and modified  as  necessary.
Proposals are submitted  on a standard
form, which  allows comparison of differ-
ent P2 proposals, and requires cost-sav-
ings  calculated  using a conservative
payback period method.
   Cost savings are starting to accumu-
late.  In  FY '01, Brookhaven  funded
seven  P2   ROI  projects,  investing
approximately  $113,000. The annual
cost savings is  calculated at $155,000.
In FY '02,  the P2  Council  allocated
approximately $120,000, with the ROI
calculated at $268,000, and an average
payback period of five months. In FY
'03, P2 projects cost $96,055 to imple-
ment, but savings are  estimated to be
$88,069 per year.
   P2 programs have included projects
to improve facility operations (such as
retrofitting hydraulic hoses with steel-
braided hoses  and  using vegetable-
based hydraulic oils), and aid scientific
researchers  (such as the purchase of a
digital-imaging  system to minimize the
generation of hazardous, industrial and
radioactive wastes).
   In  FY  '03,  projects included  the
installation of double-walled oil-storage
tanks to replace 55-gallon drums, which
permitted  the purchase of  recycled  oil
for the Lab's fleet. The initial $4000 cost
will have a payback period of one and a
half  years. Brookhaven's  Medical
Department is also using a sealing
shroud to isolate cooling water from air
in the Brookhaven  Linac Isotope Pro-
ducer exhaust  system. The shroud is
expected to reduce radioactive airborne
emissions  and lower off-site exposure.
The  project improves environmental
compliance, lowers monitoring costs and
has a payback period of approximately
one year.
   Brookhaven is  a U.S. Department of
Energy  laboratory   and   conducts
research  in  the  physical,  biomedical,
and environmental sciences, as well as
in energy technologies. It  also builds
and operates major facilities  available
to university, industrial, and govern-
ment scientists.
   For more  information, please contact
Lab staff: Peter Pohlot (631) 344-5660;
George Goode (631) 344-4549; or John
Selva (631) 344-4549; or visit the Lab's
P2  Website at: http://www.bnl.gov/
esd/pollutionpreve/
P2 Quicknotes

EPP TEAM TO
CREATE MODULE FOR
FEDERAL EMS
In accordance with Executive Order 13148,
all federal facilities are required to have
environmental management systems in
place by December 2005. EPA's Environ-
mentally Preferable  Purchasing Team is
developing a guide for federal agencies on
how to  integrate green purchasing into
their EMSs. This guide will be posted on
EPA's EPP and EMS Website and included
in training provided to federal facilities by
the Office of the Federal  Environmental
Executive. For more  information on the
guide or Federal EMS, please  contact
Holly Elwood at: elwood.holly@epa.gov or
202-564-8854.
P2 AND NATIONAL
SECURITY
Homeland security is a national priority
and what better wayto achieve real secu-
rity than to reduce or eliminate potentially
harmful chemicals? AnewP2Rxtopic hub,
produced by the Great Lakes Regional Pol-
lution Prevention Roundtable, covers the
what, why,  and how pollution  prevention
projects  within a facility  add value  to
national  and local security efforts. For
more information please visit: http://www.
g lrppr.org/hubs/toc.cfm?hub=505&sub
sec=7&nav=7
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Partnerships
 EPA,  DoD, and  States Find  Common  Ground  through
 Partnerships
   Regional EPA offices are increasingly
   joining state regulators and military
installations  to form voluntary environ-
mental partnerships, reinforcing the idea
that working collaboratively can be more
productive than working independently.
Formal  EPA-DoD-State   partnership
agreements with charters backed by state
governors, regional officials and military
installation commanders  now exist  in
more than half the 50 states.
   Designed  to promote sustainability
and pollution prevention as the best way
to protect and conserve resources, part-
nerships pool ideas, best practices, lessons
learned and sometimes even  funds  to
address environmental problems.  The
partners agree by their charters to meet
regularly and support the  pollution pre-
vention and sustainability missions of all
participants.
   Partnerships  open  communication
among regulators, DoD and EPA in a col-
laborative, non-threatening  way.  They
attract participation by senior decision-
makers,  leverage  scarce  resources by
sharing funding, training  and  technical
assistance, and recognize  civilians, sol-
diers, sailors and airmen for their contri-
butions to pollution  prevention and envi-
ronmental stewardship. Partnerships also
              Estabtished DOD-State-EPA
                        Partnerships
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Partnpritilpi i' MMary
help DoD installations develop EMSs that
improve  regulatory  compliance,  and
reward   environmental  performance
through state performance-based incen-
tive programs.
  Texas was among the first to charter a
pollution prevention  partnership with
DoD and EPA in 1997 (see related article
on TXEP on page 7). In July 2002, the Illi-
nois/DoD P2 Partnership officially became
an environmental  partnership  to reflect
its expanded focus.  The shift enables part-
  DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK AND
  INFORMATION EXCHANGE (DENIX)
  DENIX is the central platform and information clearinghouse for environment, safety and
  occupational health (ESOH) news, information, policy, and guidance. Serving the worldwide
  greater Department of Defense (DoD) community, DENIX offers ESOH professionals a vast
  document library, a gateway to web-based environmental compliance tools, an interactive
  workgroup environment, a variety of groupware tools and an active membership community
  numbering thousands. DENIX provides ESOH professionals  an up-to-date, multi-functional
  resource to assist in preserving and protecting the natural environment, achieving greater
  energy efficiency, providing a safer and healthier work environment and meeting readiness
  and compliance needs of  Congressional and DoD ESOH  requirements. Visit DENIX at:
  https://www.tlenix.ostl.mil/
                    ners to  discuss
                    state    environ-
                    mental   regula-
                    tion and amend-
                    ments  early in
                    the     defining
                    stage.  In some
                    cases, states ask
                    for input  from
                    their    environ-
                    mental  partners
                    before they circu-
                    late  drafts   for
                    wider public com-
                    ment.
                       Formally
                    chartered    in
                    2000,  the  Vir-
                    ginia-EPA-DoD
P2 Partnership has become a model for
others considering their  own state part-
nering arrangements. Maryland followed
by signing its agreement with EPA and
DoD in 2002. Pennsylvania and now the
District of Columbia are  planning formal
agreements of their own.
   In the  Great  Lakes  Region,  all six
states in EPA Region 5 (Chicago) are part
of DoD and EPA partnerships on various
levels. All but Minnesota, without a large
military presence, have  formal partner-
ship charters.
   In addition  to  the nearly  30 states
which have formal charters with DoD and
EPA, other types of partnerships have
enjoyed success. The Southeast Natural
Resource  Leaders Group (SENRLG), a
regional partnership, is committed to
resolving  natural  resource conservation
and sustainability issues. A guiding SEN-
RLG principle is  to "ensure responsive,
coordinated Federal processes and deci-
sion-making, thereby demonstrating a
standard for 'good government' that pro-
duces better overall results for our citizens
and their environment." SENRLG is a col-
laboration of regional federal environmen-
tal agency executives and regional  DoD
military service leaders in the southeast.
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                                                                                                 Partnerships
The  Texas  Environmental Partnership:
Where  Purple is  Green
   The termpurple refers to "joint-ness" or
   cooperation    between    military
branches. When colors run together -
blue (Air Force), green (Army), and brown
(Navy)  - it  is said  that  purple is  the
result.  The Texas  Environmental Part-
nership (TXEP) is proud to be purple.
   TXEP promotes environmental stew-
ardship and enhances mission readiness
through pollution prevention, reduction
and conservation. Representatives from
all DoD installations in Texas, and fed-
eral  facilities such  as NASA Johnson
Space Center, Veterans Administration
Hospitals, Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
Pantex and others meet quarterly to dis-
cuss environmental  issues and develop
proactive joint strategies where  possi-
ble. Critical  to TXEP is membership of
the Texas Commission on Environmen-
tal Quality (TCEQ) and EPA Region 6 in
Dallas.
   In 2002, the Texas Pollution Preven-
tion  Partnership (TXP3)  expanded its
mission to include environmental and
compliance issues that might affect DoD
installations and other federal facilities.
TXPS's past  efforts were rewarded with
White  House "Closing the Circle" and
former Vice President Gore's "Hammer"
awards. The TXEP was  chartered  in
August 2002 as an extension of TXP3.
Involvement and leadership from Texas,
DoD and other federal facilities defines
the Partnership by focusing on environ-
mental performance and implementa-
tion. It is co-chaired by Israel Anderson
(TCEQ) and Dr. Thorn Rennie (Air Force
Center for  Environmental Excellence
Central Region Environmental  Office
and DoD REC Region 6.)
   While P2 remains a  core focus  of
TXEP,  EMSs, sustainability, encroach-
ment, air and water quality, and natural
and cultural resources are part of its
holistic  approach.   Recently,  TXEP
formed two  subgroups to address  air
and EMS  implementation issues. The
EMS group  partners  with  TCEQ and
the  Multi-State  Working  Group on
Environmental  Management Systems
to   develop   a   performance-based
approach to EMS.
   This partnership has created train-
ing  opportunities,  developed  a joint
auditing strategy, and conducted mock
EMS audits,  which help installations
meet their chosen EMS standard. More
than 120 TXEP members and installa-
tion  staff participated in TCEQ  spon-
sored performance-based EMS training.
Camp Mabry, Texas Army Guard and
Naval Air Station, Corpus Christ! par-
ticipated  in Texas EMS mock audits to
both prepare  for actual  audits, and to
train auditors.
   This  past  October,  TXEP member
Fort Hood  hosted  an environmental
summit where community leaders from
regional governments, businesses and
non-governmental  organizations  dis-
cussed how to balance training needs
with habitat and environmental protec-
tion. In  2002,  NASA Johnson Space
Center partnered with TCEQ on a Con-
sumer  Pollution Prevention workshop.
Attendees learned to  change driving,
energy consumption,  and purchasing
habits to lessen environmental impact,
and  save money - which ultimately
saved $10,000,  200 kilowatt  hours of
energy,  124 gallons of gasoline, 3000
pounds of CO2, and reduced solid waste.
The P2 program at Randolph Air Force
Base, led  by Michael  Redfern, has
achieved resource savings of $2.4 mil-
lion, while  diverting 38 percent of the
base's waste.
   P2 is  a  key  to building strong and
effective  partnerships. The reductions
and cost savings  realized by  a strong
commitment to  P2 programs increases
the enthusiasm to tackle issues such as
habitat protection and natural and cul-
tural  resources preservation.  Perhaps
these issues can also  be  addressed  by
understanding that there are both envi-
ronmental   and   economic  benefits
involved in  each.
   For more information, please contact:
Rob Borowski Clean Texas Coordinator,
TCEQ, rborowsk@tceq.state.tx.us; or
Dr. Thomas Rennie, AFCEE  Central
Region Environmental Office,
thomas.rennie@brooks.af.mil
  JOINT SERVICE P2 OPPORTUNITY  HANDBOOK
  The Joint Service P2 Opportunity Handbook identifies "off-the-shelf" P2 technologies, manage-
  ment practices, and process changes that reduce hazardous and solid waste. The handbook
  was prepared jointly by the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC), underthe direc-
  tion of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO-N45) and the Naval Facilities Engineer-
  ing Command (NAVFAC), the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE), the Army
  Environmental Center (AEC), Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC), the Defense Logistics Agency
  (DLA), and the Coast Guard (USCG).
     There are  more than 250 individual data sheets represented in 15 waste and emission areas,
  including air pollution, bio-based products, hazardous material and waste management, petro-
  leum, oils, and lubricants, solid waste management, solvent alternatives, storm and waste water,
  and sustainable development. Each entry  provides, among other details,  an overview of the
  product and regulatory compliance impacts, suggested alternatives and their advantages and
  disadvantages, economic analysis of product usage, and vendor information.
     This tool  can be  found at: http://p2library.nfesc.navy.mil/p2_opportunity_handbook/
  introduction.html
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Partnerships
DoD-EPA Region 4  Partnership  Opens  Up  Communication
   EPA's Region 4 (Atlanta) comprises the
   southeastern  states  and  has  the
largest concentration of military installa-
tions in the United States. It is the only
EPA region where a DoD P2 partnership
exists in every state, and to a  great
extent, installations  and states rely on
and benefit from these partnerships.
   The DoD Region 4  P2  Partnership
took form when the region's states, DoD
facilities and EPA recognized each branch
of the military was independently tack-
ling P2  problems and looking for solu-
tions which already existed. Coordinating
efforts and sharing ideas was crucial.
   Established  in 2000, the partnership
is a military and civilian working group
focused on P2 and related issues. Repre-
sentatives  are from each military instal-
lation within the eight states of Region 4,
Army and Air  National Guard,  Army
Corps  of  Engineers,  Army  Reserves,
Defense Logistics Agency, Air Force Cen-
ter for  Environmental Excellence, Army
Southern Regional Environmental Office,
Southern Region Naval Facilities  Engi-
neering  Command,  and Marine Corps
Regional Environmental  Coordination
Office. EPA Region 4, each state and envi-
ronmental  regulatory  agency,  state
research  universities and  providers  of
technical assistance are also members. A
steering  committee provides  ongoing
guidance and direction.
   The military installations, in meeting
their  environmental challenges  while
maintaining combat readiness, ironically
had too  much P2  information for the
small  environmental  staffs  to sift
through.  One of the partnership's first
objectives was to develop, distribute, and
analyze a  needs survey  to  determine
regional P2 priorities. Once these  needs
were narrowed down to  about a  dozen
manageable and fundable  projects, the
partnership sought universities to con-
duct the needed research and training.
   These projects—EMS  training and
implementation,  optimization of  build-
ing deconstruction,  a  watershed  advi-
sory  board,  prescribed  burning  on
military  facilities,  and  in-vessel bio-
treatment systems  among  others, have
been underway or completed in the past
two years.  Their results have been  or
will be disseminated to the appropriate
Region 4 installations.
   Many issues can be addressed region-
ally  through technology  transfer and
idea-sharing forums. The  Partnership's
quarterly   newsletter,  RESOURCES,
describes partnership activities and suc-
cessful strategies. Web resources, list-
serves, and e-mail also help disseminate
information. EPA, DoD, universities, and
the Waste Reduction Resource Center are
also resources for Region 4 states. All of
these resources cost the user virtually
nothing.
   The regional partnership  takes pride
in its achievements. In its priority survey,
the Partnership identified and prioritized
pressing areas  of state and regional con-
cern, obtained  DoD funding, and imple-
mented solutions  accordingly.  Partner-
ship goals  have  also evolved;  after
focusing on P2 in all media areas,  the
Partnership  realized that  P2 was ulti-
mately just one way to reach the primary
goal  of sustainability  The Partnership
will continue to reevaluate  priority areas
to ensure that installation needs are met.
   For  more information, contact Chris-
tine Steagall, Program Coordinator, Env.
Research and  Service  Unit; U. of S.C.
(803)  777-7463 or visit:   http://wrrrc.
p2pays.org/DoDPartnership.
Georgia honors  DoD for P2 Partnership
   The Georgia Pollution Prevention Divi-
   sion  (P2AD)  and Department  of
Defense (DoD) are  celebrating the fifth
anniversary  of the Georgia P2AD/DoD
Pollution Prevention Partnership.
   The Partnership advances P2 as a pri-
mary environmental compliance tool, is a
model for other partnerships, and was a
catalyst in creating the first regional DoD
P2 partnership in the country (see related
article above). Members include the Army
Southern Regional Environmental Office,
regional  environmental  coordinators
(RECs) from each military service, repre-
sentatives  of the military installations
and  commands in  Georgia, U.S.  EPA
Region 4 (Atlanta) and P2AD.
   As a result of this collaboration, innov-
ative waste  reduction initiatives have
been developed  and  implemented  at
installations,   and    communication
between the military and state govern-
ment has improved.
   For   example,  Fort  Stewart   in
Hinesville, Ga. recycles over  17 different
types of materials totaling approximately
2,750 tons, and generates approximately
$190,000 in  revenue per year. The site
also  accepts  recyclables from several
neighboring communities.
   Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE)  in
Kingsbay,  Ga.  recycles lime sludge  (a
water treatment plant waste by-product)
as a soil conditioner. In 1997-8 it diverted
52 percent of all non-hazardous waste to
recycling or other beneficial use.
   Robins Air Force Base (Warner Robins
Air Logistics Center  (WR-ALC)), the
largest industrial complex in Georgia,
reduced in flightline vacuum waste from
approximately 125 tons to 84 tons, and
disposal costs from $204,000 to  $97,000
per year.
   With support from EPA  Region  4,
P2AD provides free and confidential envi-
ronmental technical  assistance  for P2,
resource conservation,  waste reduction,
by-product reuse and recycling. P2AD's
clients include manufacturing industry,
commercial businesses, agriculture, pub-
lic institutions, and federal facilities.
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                                                                                         Green Procurement
Making  Green  Procurement Work  For You
     With hundreds of "green" product cat-
     egories across the supply spectrum,
purchasers are thinking "green", buying
"green" and saving green.  Now the tools
exist to make "green purchasing" an inte-
gral and normal part of your purchasing
process.
   Federal, state and local governments
purchase the majority of their products
and  services through contracts - and
together spend over 600 billion dollars a
year.  Collectively, government  entities
have, and can continue to create a cata-
lyst for more green products in the mar-
ketplace.  Purchasing  "green"  products
through   contract  mechanisms  also
enables governments to specify product
attributes - including "green" or  environ-
mentally preferable — and require bid-
ders  and contractors to find and provide
the products matching  these  require-
ments.
   For instance,  when  the  Pentagon
wanted to build a new parking  lot, con-
tract  officers told bidders they  would
receive a price  deferential for each envi-
ronmental attribute  they added to the
parking  lot, such as recycled-content
asphalt and low levels of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs). The winning contrac-
tor found these materials and other prod-
ucts that fit Pentagon specifications.
   The point of this example is that once
you know what to ask for, contractors,
and their suppliers, will find what you
need.  The following tools will help you
identify what environmental attributes to
ask for and what products and services
will meet your price,  performance and
environmentally preferable criteria.

U.S. EPA's Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
Homepage
http://www. epa.gov/opp1/epp
This website  answers purchaser ques-
tions about what EPP is  and how they
can find the best product or service that
benefits both  human health and the
environment.   From case studies, to  a
glossary  of environmental  purchasing
terms, to a complete tool suite that can
help  purchasers  "green"  everything
from meetings to cafeterias, EPA's EPP
web site should be a purchaser's first
stop on the road to purchasing "greener"
products and services.

U.S. EPA's Database For
Environmentally Preferable
Goods and Services
http://www. epa.gov/opp1/epp/
database.htm
This database contains  information  or
links to: 1) contract language and specifi-
cations created and used by federal and
state  governments  and  others  to buy
environmentally preferable products and
services; 2) environmental guidelines and
standards for products; 3) vendor lists of
product brands that meet these stan-
dards;  and 4)  other useful sources  of
information on the environmental prefer-
ability of products and services (e.g., U.S.
E.P.A. Environmentally Preferable Pur-
chasing Updates,  guidance  documents,
fact sheets, case studies,  and  miscella-
neous information useful to government
purchasers).

Center for a New American
Dream Procurement Strategies
Website
http://www.newdream.org/procure
The  site provides  general information
about environmentally  preferable pur-
chasing and specific information  about
how  state and local governments can
reduce the environmental  impacts  of
their purchasing decisions.

Green Meetings
http://www. epa.gov/oppl/green
meetings/index.htm
"Green"  meetings minimize  negative
impacts on the environment. By using
EPA's green  meeting planning site, you
can access information to assist you  in
organizing   your   conference   to  be
"greener".
ENVIRONMENTAL SPOTLIGHT
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groups whose work impacts homeland
security.
   I would also like to encourage the fed-
eral facility community to develop new
networks and partnerships by  meeting
with P2 colleagues at NPPR annual con-
ferences and events. These forums pro-
vide   members   an  opportunity  to
exchange the latest in P2 research, policy
funding  opportunities,  and technical
expertise. One such upcoming opportu-
nity is the National Environmental Assis-
tance Providers' Summit in April 2004 -
the first event of its kind hosted by the
U.S. EPA and NPPR.  The summit will
convene government, industry and non-
governmental organizations which work
on pollution prevention, compliance assis-
tance, environmental policy innovations,
environmental  management  systems,
and sustainability
   As we move forward on several fronts,
federal facilities will play a key role in new
and innovative environmental programs.
Developing  "performance-based" regula-
tion will take a collective commitment to
produce better environmental results.
Many of the tools exist today, including
sectoral pollution-prevention "covenants,"
environmental performance indicators,
market  trading  of emissions permits,
third-party certification of environmental
performance,  regulatory  flexibility, and
frameworks for sustainability.
    Many P2 leaders  advocate  these
approaches on grounds not just of eco-
efficient cost reduction, but of the poten-
tial for introducing more environmentally
benign   innovations   in   production
processes and products - for a "greening
of business"  and  even a long-term term
shift  toward "sustainable enterprise."
Federal  facilities play  a critical  role in
this effort and the P2  community will
commit to making this happen.
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Healthcare
NIH  Going Mercury Free
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   The  National Institutes  of Health
   (NIH), an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Services, is the
primary federal  agency  dedicated  to
medical  research.  Its  main  campus,
located in Bethesda, Md.,  is the largest
biomedical facility in the world, consist-
ing of over 4,000 laboratories, a 325-bed
research    hospital
(the Clinical Center),
and a  large Ambula-
tory  Care Research
Facility.
   In  1995 the NIH
began a voluntary P2
program that included an initiative to
eliminate mercury  in  medical devices
used in the Clinical Center. Key to the
success of this initiative were  early
efforts to inform medical  professionals
and researchers about mercury hazards
and convince them of the suitability and
availability of mercury-free devices in
clinical  applications  and  research.
Arrangements were then  made to pro-
cure  mercury-free  thermometers and
blood  pressure  devices, and  collect and
recycle the mercury from the discarded
items.  This led to the removal of over
1,500  devices without a single spill or
interruption  in  patient  care  and
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research activities. The Clinical Center
is  now  considered virtually  "mercury-
free."
   In 2001, an expanded effort -  the
"Mad as a Hatter?" Campaign for a Mer-
cury Free NIH, was initiated to extend
the mercury reduction program to all
NIH laboratories and facilities in  the
                U.S.,  and   increase
                employee awareness
                through a  new  web
                site   and   volunteer
                pledge program. This
                ongoing campaign led
                to the replacement of
several  thousand  additional mercury
thermometers and substitutions of mer-
cury in biomedical reagents. Mercury
contamination in facility infrastructure
is also being addressed by development
and implementation of improved proto-
cols for  assessment and remediation of
mercury in laboratory decommissioning
projects.
   NIH  employee volunteers also car-
ried the campaign to homes, schools and
communities  via  exhibits,  presenta-
tions, health fairs and other outreach
efforts. This outreach activity was one of
several  P2  programs  that resulted in
the  NIH  receiving   the  Significant
  VA BECOMES PART OF HEALTHY HOSPITALS INITIATIVE
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest integrated healthcare network in the
  country, committed to reducing its environmental impact by becoming a "Champion for Change"
  in the innovative Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) program. The VA is now the first gov-
  ernment-owned healthcare system to commit to the proactive goals of the voluntary H2E pro-
  gram. The program is designed to help health care facilities reduce their environmental impact
  while saving money, reducing liability and increasing compliance. The H2E program has set
  ambitious goals of eliminating the use of mercury in health care by 2005, cutting health care
  waste in half by 2010 and reducing the use and production of toxic and hazardous substances.
  To date, more than 460 H2E Partners and 55 Champions, representing nearly 1,800 health care
  facilities, have signed on to help achieve these goals. In the program, "Partners" are individual
  hospitals and healthcare facilities, while "Champions" are larger, multi-facility healthcare net-
  works and associations. Operating nearly 170 hospitals across the country, the VA is also one of
  the largest healthcare systems to become an H2E Champion. Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
  is a joint program of the American Hospital Association, EPA, Health Care Without Harm and the
  American Nurses Association.
    For more information about H2E, go to http://www.h2e-online.org/
Achievement Award for a Federal Facil-
ity from Businesses for the Bay,  a vol-
untary  pollution prevention organiza-
tion   made up  of  more  than 500
businesses,  industries,  government
facilities and other organizations  in the
Chesapeake Bay watershed. In  recog-
nizing this award, Governor Parris  N.
Glendening, then Governor of Mary-
land,  specifically cited the NIH's mer-
cury reduction campaign  as setting "a
high standard for environmental out-
reach and education."
  Other federal facilities are welcome
to join  the  mercury-free  campaign.
Generic versions of campaign graphics
and promotional materials can be made
available by contacting Captain Edward
Rau, NIH, (301)  496-7775,  raue@mail.
nih.gov.
  Campaign  Web  site:  http://www.
nih.gov/od/ors/ds/nomercury/
  WHY SHOULD FEDERAL
  FACILITIES FOCUS
  ON MERCURY
  ELIMINATION?

  •  Mercury is a "bad actor". Exposure to
     mercury can cause potentially serious
     damage to  the nervous  system and
     other adverse health effects. In the
     environment it is considered a Persis-
     tent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic  (PBT)
     chemical - a high  priority for pollution
     prevention.
  •  Elimination is feasible. Suitable  alter-
     natives are available for almost all uses
     of mercury and its compounds.
  •  High return on P2 investment. Eliminat-
     ing use of mercury prevents potential
     spills and contamination  of plumbing
     systems and other facility infrastruc-
     ture. The costs of carrying out a facility-
     wide mercury elimination  campaign
     can be far less than cleaning up  a sin-
     gle spill.
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                                                                                                      E-Cycling
Federal Electronics Challenge:  Putting  Electronic
Products in  Their  Place
   Tie Federal  Electronics Challenge
   PEC), launched in May 2003, is in a
year-long pilot phase and is setting the
stage for  purchasing  and end-of-life
strategies  that will encourage environ-
mentally  sound electronics  manage-
ment at all federal facilities and agen-
cies.
   Electronic waste  (e-waste)  is  the
most rapidly growing waste problem in
the world, and  is posing new environ-
mental and  human health threats.  E-
waste includes used and obsolete elec-
tronics,  such as  computers,  printers,
mobile phones, and fax  machines. As
one of the largest consumers of electron-
ics  products, the federal government
has a unique opportunity to set the pace
for  environmentally sound electronics
procurement  and end-of-life  manage-
ment.
   The Federal Electronics Challenge is
a purchasing, operations, and end-of-life
management challenge issued for fed-
eral facilities or agencies that want to:
1) purchase greener electronics prod-
ucts; 2)  manage their  electronic assets
in an environmentally sound manner;
3) receive assistance  to  change their
current practices; and 4)  gain national
recognition for their efforts.
   The Challenge is open to all federal
agencies  and facilities.  FEC  is  spon-
sored by the Office of Federal Environ-
mental Executive (OFEE), U.S. EPA,
Department of Defense,  General Ser-
    C 0111 g
    Rccvclto
vices Administration, and Federal Net-
work for Sustainability, with additional
agencies  likely. FEC "Partners"  learn
the importance of applying environmen-
tally  sound electronics  management
principles throughout a  product's life
cycle stages—from the  acquisition and
procurement of environmentally prefer-
able  products  to the  operations and
maintenance phase to end-of-life man-
agement of those products.
   After completing a baseline survey,
Partners  set realistic goals  to improve
the management  of their electronic
assets  and will  track  their progress.
Depending on a Partner's commitment
level and achievements,  Partners can
qualify for a  bronze,  silver,  or  gold
  GET INVOLVED!
  The FEC Steering Committee is seeking partner facilities in Washington, D.C., Great Lakes and
  West Coast regions for the pilot phase. FEC welcomes information from the electronics industry,
  recyclers, and non-government organizations.
     For more information on how you can sign up to become a partner, get involved as a stake-
  holder in the Federal Electronics Challenge, or to learn more about reducing your electronic
  waste impact, visit: http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net or contact Charles Johnson at:
  johnson.charles@ofee.gov, or Christopher Kent at kent.christopher@epa.gov.
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award. The more the  partners do,  the
higher the recognition  they will receive;
Gold  Partners receive  White  House
recognition. Partners  will also receive
technical assistance, networking oppor-
tunities,  and  additional  tools  and
resources as they work to reduce their
environmental footprint.


 WHAT'S IN ELECTRONIC
 PRODUCTS?
 Electronic products are made up of a com-
 bination of precious and other metals, engi-
 neered  plastics, glass, and other materi-
 als—all valuable resources that are all too
 often sent to landfills without a  second
 thought. Some electronic products contain
 hazardous or  toxic substances. Products
 containing cathode ray tubes (CRTs), circuit
 boards, batteries, and mercury switches
 can  contain  lead, mercury,  cadmium,
 chromium, and some types of flame retar-
 dants, which can pose serious environmen-
 tal risks if not properly managed. This grow-
 ing, changing product stream presents new
 challenges and responsibilities in designing
 and  managing  electronic products  to
 reduce   their  life-cycle  environmental
 impacts.
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E-Cycling
 P2  Quicknotes

 FLOURESCENT  LAMP
 RECYCLING
 Flourescent  lamps  can  help facilities
 reduce energy consumption -they use one
 quarter the energy of incandescent lamps
 and last as much as ten times longer. How-
 ever, flourescent lamps contain the toxic
 element  mercury, and when  broken or
 improperly disposed  of can release  mer-
 cury into the air, water and soil. Recycling
 spent-mercury lamps offers an environmen-
 tally  sound alternative to expensive haz-
 ardous waste disposal.  Hospitals for  a
 Healthy  Environment (H2E)  outlines  a
 process for flourescent lamp recycling. You
 don't have to be a hospital to take advan-
 tage of these guidelines. Visit them at:
 http://www.h2e-online.org/tools/mercury.
 htm
 AMERICA RECYCLES DAY
 As part of the annual America Recycles Day
 initiatives in the Washington,  D.C. Metro
 area, the Office of the Federal Environmen-
 tal Executive in conjunction with several
 other federal agencies. District of Columbia
 Recycling Program, private industry, and
 non-governmental organizations sponsored
 a two-day electronics collection and recy-
 cling event. The event, which was open and
 free of charge to all residents and govern-
 ment employees in the D.C. metro area, was
 held at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre in
 Rock Creek Park on Friday, November 14,
 2003 and Saturday, November 15,2003. The
 purpose  of the event was to educate con-
 sumers about the environmental benefits of
 electronics  recycling, and to  encourage
 them to  recycle electronics by providing
 them with an opportunity and outlet to do
 so. More than 66,700 pounds of electronics
 were collected by 75 local citizens and vol-
 unteers from the federal agencies, D.C. gov-
 ernment, private businesses and not-for-
 profit organizations.
NIH  Sets  E-cycling  Record
   As part of a regional  pilot project to
   improve collection and  recycling of
electronic equipment, the EPA and  the
Maryland Department of the  Environ-
ment (MDE) were looking for an agency
to host and publicize an electronics recy-
cling  (e-cycling)  event.  The National
Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of
the Department of Health and Human
Services, volunteered and subsequently
scheduled the  event as part of its Earth
Day celebrations in April  2003.
   Open to government  employees and
the local community, the event provided
an opportunity to recycle  all types of per-
sonally  owned electronics - from  cell
phones to televisions and computers. The
operators of White Flint, a nearby shop-
ping mall, generously offered the use of
one of their parking lots for the collection
site and provided free advertising for the
event on their  website  and electronic
marquee sign  at the mall entrance. Vol-
unteers also distributed posters and fly-
ers to advertise the event.
   The first indication of success came
well before the event's scheduled start as
"e-junk" began arriving by car, truck, bike
and from pedestrians. Two additional ser-
vice  lines were opened  to  handle the
increased volume of material, which con-
tinued throughout the event, and after
drop-off areas were closed. An estimated
670 deliveries of electronics were made
that day, totaling 34 tons of equipment.
According to Jim Richmond, MDE repre-
sentative, this set a new statewide record
for the largest amount of e-cyclable mate-
rials collected in a single day event.
  Most equipment collected will be dis-
assembled in facilities located in the U.S.
and recycled. Some equipment in work-
ing  condition will be refurbished  and
donated or sold. For example,  103 of the
collected cell phones and related acces-
sories will be given to the Wireless Foun-
dation and  reconfigured as  emergency
call phones,  or used in abuse prevention
programs.
  Lessons learned from this  event will
also  be "recycled"  by  other  federal and
state agencies for application at future e-
cycling events.  The NIH e-cycling event
publicity  website  is  still   on-line  at
http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/ecycle/.  Its
content may be copied without permis-
sion. Contact Captain Ed Rau at the NIH
(301) 496-7775 for additional information.
EPA, DOD, AND STATES FIND COMMON GROUND
THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
Continued from page 6

(Also see related article  on the  DoD
Region  4  Pollution Prevention Partner-
ship on  page 8)
   In the  west, the state of Washington
Environmental Forum (WEF) is a group
of senior military commanders and lead-
ers from regional and state environmen-
tal agencies which play significant roles
in each other's environmental  progress.
Members  from Fort Lewis served on the
Washington Governor's advisory panel to
formulate the Washington State Sustain-
ability Plan, published in  March 2003.
Partners are now transforming WEF into
a  Washington   sustainability  forum,
reflecting  its new direction.
   The  Pennsylvania/DoD Cooperative
Multi-Site Agreement (CMSA),  com-
prised of the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection, the Depart-
ments of Army, Navy, Air Force, and the
Defense Logistics Agency, agreed in 1998
to assess, remediate and resolve Pennsyl-
vania's  contaminated  Formerly Used
Defense Sites. A CMSA goal was to rem-
edy or resolve issues for all covered sites
by 2010. In 2003, hundreds of sites need-
ing further study  were  resolved,  and
CMSA  members feel  that agreement
terms are  being exceeded.
   For  more  information about state
partnerships, contact  Adrian Miller  of
the Army Northern Regional Environ-
mental  Office,  410-436-2427,  or visit
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/reo/nreoOO.
html
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                                                                                   Green/Alternative  Power
Alternative Fuels  Clear Air  at  NASA  Glenn  Research Center
   Tie NASA Glenn Research Center
   tRC) in Cleveland is reminiscent of
a small town from the  1940s. Rows of
small brick buildings  and crabapple
tree-lined roads are interspersed with
odd  metal  structures  for  propulsion
research. In this small, confined town,
exhaust constantly emits from delivery
trucks and personnel  shuttles,  from
forklifts  in  enclosed warehouses,  and
even from propulsion testing facilities.
   Several years  ago,  these  exhaust
emissions were  mostly  from unleaded
gasoline and diesel. In addition to their
long-term impact on global warming
and acid rain, fossil fuel emissions also
cause bad  odors, and stop workers in
their  tracks. The  odor  issue propelled
an alternative fuel project to quick com-
pletion at GRC.
   JP-8  (a kerosene-based fuel in mili-
tary and airline use) replaced the costly
hydrogen fuel in NASA's Aero-Acousti-
cal Propulsion Lab (AAPL). When AAPL
staff  lit  JP-8 to  run  hot  tests,  com-
plaints would flood in from surrounding
buildings, depending on the wind direc-
tion. According to the facility  engineer
at AAPL, the odor was a noxious barbe-
cue-type  smell,  like lighter fluid,  and
gave people headaches. AAPL was faced
with the prospect of shutting down or
finding an alternative fuel.
   At its next  normal maintenance
interval,  the AAPL combuster  was
changed out to accomodate lighter-than-
air, odorless compressed natural  gas
(CNG). CNG is  also  a  fossil fuel,  but
emits 90 - 97 percent less carbon monox-
ide, and  35  - 60 percent less nitrogen
oxide than  gasoline.  In  over  nine
months  of  operation, AAPL  has  not
received a single complaint.
   Other fuels were  also  considered.
Propane was rejected because it is heav-
ier than air  and  creates a fire hazard if
fumes escape. Two renewable alterna-
tive fuels are being used or studied at
GRC: bio-diesel from  soybeans  and
ethanol ("E85"), a corn product.
   Biodiesel  replaced diesel in a difficult
to re-start truck whose batteries were not
charging properly and kept running when
parked and  making  deliveries. A  nine-
month pilot program at GRC studied one
vehicle using various diesel to biodiesel
percentages.  Fuel-line  freeze-up is  a big
concern in northeast Ohio winters,  so a
widespread Midwest formula - 20 percent
biodiesel  to  80 percent low-sulfur diesel
(called "B20") - was chosen. The winter's
coldest weather conditions were no prob-
  EPA POWERS  UP THE  GREEN WAY
  EPA recently announced the acquisition of "green" power for the EPA Headquarters facilities at
  Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C. The power will come from wind farms and landfill gas facili-
  ties in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland. EPA's Federal Triangle facilities use 40 million
  kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
    This is EPA's largest green power purchase to date and reflects its continuing efforts to reduce
  the environmental impact of EPA's facilities. With this purchase, EPA will have green power at nine
  locations: Richmond, Calif.; Golden, Colo.; Manchester, Wash.; Chelmsford,  Mass.; Cincinnati,
  Ohio; the New York Regional Office; Edison, N.J.; Houston, Texas; and the Federal Triangle Build-
  ings in Washington, D.C. Soon, EPA will also have green power at its new laboratory in Research
  Triangle Park, N.C. GSA's National Energy Center assisted EPA with this procurement.
    More information on Green  Power at EPA facilities can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/
  greeningepa/energy/greenpwer.htm or http://www.epa.gov/greeningepa
    For more information on the EPA's  Green Power Partnership Program, visit: www.epa.gov/
  greenpower
lem  for this  fuel mix. During warmer
weather, a test vehicle was able to run on
100  percent biodiesel  with  no problem,
except making the driver hungry. He said,
"It smelled like French fries."
   Drivers say the truck runs just as well,
or better, on biodiesel. Biodiesel acts as
a solvent, cleaning out the lines. The
fuel filter clogs the first time biodiesel is
run through, but once the contaminants
are cleared out by the biodiesel, there
are no more  filter problems. Biodiesel
also  reduces  emissions,   and   is
biodegradable and nontoxic.
   GRC also  uses biobased  fuel E85.
E85  is 85 percent ethanol blended with
15 percent gasoline. Ethanol is 100 per-
cent grain alcohol produced by ferment-
ing plant sugars, primarily corn, since it
is most easily converted to  sugar. Com-
pared to gasoline, E85 emits 40 percent
less  carbon monoxide and 80  percent
less  sulfate. In the 1880s,  Henry Ford
designed a car that ran only on ethanol,
and the Model T was designed to run on
either ethanol or  gasoline. 120  years
later, there are over 160 fueling stations
offering E85 in 24 states.
   GRC recently converted a 10,000 gal-
lon underground storage tank to E85,
and  installed an  E85 dispenser. The
Center uses E85 in twelve E85-compat-
ible vehicles, and will replace older vehi-
cles at future intervals.
   Over half of GRC's owned and leased
fleet of 145 vehicles uses some form of
alternative fuel. All 36 diesel vehicles,
stationary diesel storage tanks, and all
equipment using the tanks, like genera-
tors,  use  B20 biodiesel.  Thirty-eight
vehicles use CNG: shuttle buses, cargo
vans, passenger vans, pick-up trucks,
and passenger cars. One forklift will be
used for a CNG emissions study, with a
goal of converting several forklifts from
propane to CNG to improve  indoor emis-
sions for workers.
   To learn more about alternative fuel
usage at  NASA/GRC, please  contact
their P2 Team at: 216-433-8441.
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TVA and  Environmental  Stewardship
The  Tennessee  Valley  Authority
 I (TVA) is a public power company, but
it does much more than generate power.
It  supports economic development and
manages the  natural  resources  of the
Tennessee  River Basin through inte-
grated  resource   management.   TVA
strives to balance and optimize the com-
peting  demands of river  navigation,
flood  control,  power supply,  land  use,
water quality and recreation.
   TVA's eleven watershed  teams are
striving to maintain good environmental
stewardship  practices  throughout the
290,000 acres  of public lands, including
11,000 miles  of shoreline in the  Ten-
nessee River  Basin. Watershed  teams
have a broad mission: improve and pro-
tect water quality, guide shoreline devel-
opment and improvement, provide recre-
ational opportunities,  while ensuring
both economic development and  envi-
ronmental protection.
   Watershed  teams communicate with
stakeholders  when  developing   and
implementing land management plans
for TVA  reservoirs. These plans direct
where  development and environmental
protection is most appropriate in order
to sustain the balance. The Reservoir
Operations Study is another example of
how TVA is listening  to stakeholders
and reevaluating its policies on manag-
ing the river system.
   TVA also participates in partnerships
to improve water quality across the Val-
ley. With 50 initiatives located through-
out the Valley, TVA targets efforts where
it will  accomplish the most benefit for
stakeholders   by  making  resource
improvements,   protecting   existing
resources, and anticipating growth.
   The Tennessee Growth  Readiness
Program and  the  Tennessee  Valley
Clean Marina Initiative help communi-
ties learn how land use decisions affect
water quality and supply, comply with
regulatory  requirements,  and  make
informed  decisions  about  managing
growth.  The related article (see page
15)  describes these  programs  in more
detail.
   Since 1999, TVA has not received fed-
eral  appropriations  and has  funded
environmental  stewardship  activities
through power revenues. TVA provides
power to large industries and 158 power
distributors that serve 8.3 million con-
sumers in seven southeastern states.
   For more information about TVA and
its stewardship initiatives contact Buff
Crosby at TVA, (423)  751-7687 or visit
TVA's web site at www.tva.com.
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  SUSTAINING TVA'S  NATURAL  HERITAGE
 The TVA Regional Natural Heritage Project,
 initiated in 1976, contains data on a variety of
 biologically-related  disciplines   including
 aquatic and terrestrial plants and animals,
 threatened and endangered plantand animal
 species, natural areas, wetlands,  caves,
 waterfalls, champion trees and animal gath-
 ering areas in the multi-state TVA  region.
 This information is used to assist scientific
 research and improve natural areas, as well
 as protect biological diversity by guiding
 development away from sensitive areas. Cur-
 rently, the  database  contains over 30,000
 individual records.
    Because the Natural Heritage database
 is integrated into TVA's environmental review
 process, decision makers can identify, mini-
 mize or eliminate potential conflicts between
 proposed development and critical  natural
 resources. Project biologists  and their part-
 ners regularly inventory populations of feder-
 ally listed plants or animals on TVA lands to
 determine  population numbers  and vigor,
 identify population trends, and plan appropri-
ate protection and enhancement for them.
   Inventory data is further used to prioritize
areas on TVA lands appropriate for inclusion
into TVA's  Natural Areas program.  As a
result, the  Natural Heritage Project now
manages a  world-class system of  nature
preserves spanning  approximately  13,000
acres in five states. These natural areas pro-
tect listed plants and animals for future gen-
erations, while other  areas are publicly
accessible  for passive  recreation,  nature
appreciation, and other educational pro-
grams.
   Recently,  Dr.  William Redmond, the
retired  founder  and  leader  of  the TVA
Regional Natural  Heritage Project was pre-
sented the Tennessee Department of Envi-
ronment and Conservation's "Conservation
Award". In 1993, the TVA  Heritage project
received The Nature Conservancy's first Out-
standing Heritage Program award.
   For more  information about this program,
contact Peggy Shute at TVA, (865) 632-1661
or visit TVA's web site at www.tva.com.
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Partnering  for  Better Water  Quality
and  Sustainable Development
   The Tennessee  Growth Readiness
   Program helps local  communities
within the TVA seven-state region learn
how land management decisions  impact
water quality and how to make informed
choices about growth  and  development.
TVA manages the program for the Ten-
nessee Department of Agriculture, and
works with  the  Uni-
versity of Tennessee
Water    Resources
Research Center and
the Southeast Water-
shed Forum to deliver
training,   materials
and  support to plan-
ners and public works
officials. The program
began as a pilot, and
adapted   strategies
from other watershed
programs. The program teaches planners
and public works officials about the com-
plex issues and choices surrounding land-
use and water quality, how to educate oth-
ers in their  communities,  and how  to
design  a  Site  Planning  Roundtable
process.  Community specific maps and
data help explain how current and future
land-uses may exacerbate existing water
quality problems. The goal  is for commu-
nities to evaluate their existing  growth
and development regulations and revise
these to  better  protect  their  water
resources. Officials from over 300 commu-
nities have participated in  the  program,
and many are considering  revising their
codes and ordinances  to improve water
quality in the region.
   For more information about the Ten-
nessee  Growth  Readiness  Program,
please call Joel Haden  at TVA, (865) 632-
2132, or visit the program's website  at
http://tgr.utk.edu.
   The  Tennessee   Valley   Clean
Marina Initiative (CMI)  is a regional,
voluntary certification program developed
by TVA Resource  Stewardship and its
watershed partners to promote  sound,
The goal is for communities
  to evaluate their existing
  growth and development
   regulations and revise
these to better protect their
       water resources.
environmentally responsible marina and
boating practices along the 11,000 miles
of shoreline in the Tennessee Valley. The
Initiative improves water quality through
non-regulatory, collaborative  P2  and
other source  reduction strategies with
marina operators,  other regulatory agen-
cies, watershed organizations  and the
                 marine  industry. CMI
                 focuses  on: 1) sewage
                 management; 2)  fuel
                 management; 3) solid
                 waste and petroleum
                 recycling and disposal;
                 4)  vessel  operation,
                 maintenance,    and
                 repair;  5) marina sit-
                 ing, design and main-
                 tenance;   6)  storm-
                 water   management
                 and erosion control;
and 7) boater  education. With the help of
the TVA Watershed Team,  marina opera-
tors assess their operations and facilities
and  identify  areas  for  improvement.
Teams also conduct workshops, and pro-
vide useful resource material, including
information on environmentally friendly
marine products. Participants get recog-
nition through a variety  of media, and
also are allowed use of the  CMI logo. Cer-
tified marinas are reporting observable
improvements in  water quality in and
around their marina basin. The Initiative
has broad participation among marinas
and  boaters,  and  new  partnerships
among federal, state  and  other regional
entities have  also  been forged. This pro-
gram may be  a model for  other parts of
the southeast United States. Currently,
the  U.S.  Army  Corps   of  Engineers
(Nashville  District)  and the  Missis-
sippi/Alabama Sea Grant Consortium are
developing Clean Marina programs based
on this model.
   For more information about this ini-
tiative contact Linda Harris at (423) 876-
4178  or  visit  TVAs web  site  at:
www.tva.com.
FEDERAL FACILITY P2
REQUIREMENTS
Federal facilities should recognize that pol-
lution prevention is not merely a goal or an
aspiration. Rather, pollution prevention is a
specific obligation  outlined  in numerous
statutes and executive orders.
   The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
defines pollution prevention as any practice
that "reduces the amount of any hazardous
substance, pollutant, or contaminant enter-
ing any waste stream or otherwise released
into the  environment  (including fugitive
emissions) prior to recycling, treatment, or
disposal" and "reduces the hazards to pub-
lic health and the environment associated
with the release of such substances, pollu-
tants, or contaminants."
   The Act  further states, "...pollution
should be prevented  or  reduced  at the
source whenever feasible;  pollution that
cannot be prevented should be recycled in
an environmentally safe manner whenever
feasible; pollution that cannot be prevented
or recycled should be treated in an environ-
mentally safe manner whenever feasible;
and disposal or other release into the envi-
ronment should be employed only as a last
resort and should be conducted in an envi-
ronmentally safe manner."
Specific statutes and executive orders that
provide for pollution prevention include:
•  Clean Air Act (CAA) §7402-7405, §7412-
   7418
•  Resource  Conservation and  Recovery
   Act (RCRA)  §6907-6908, §6921-6927,
   §6931, §6981
•  Clean Water Act  (CWA) §1251-1256,
   §1342, §1381
•  Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)  §13103-
   13106
•  Emergency Planning  and Community
   Right to Know  Act (EPCRA) §11001-
   11005, §11021-11023
•  Federal  Insecticide,  Fungicide  and
   RodenticideAct(FIFRA)§136
•  National  Environmental  Policy  Act
   (NEPA) §4331, §4363, §4363, §4368
•  Executive Order 13148
•  Executive Order 12088
•  Executive Order 12856
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EPA  Partners with  Manufacturers  and  Retailers for Cleaner
Marine  Engines
   EPA and New Jersey's Department of
   Environmental  Protection recently
entered into a formal  agreement with
local  trade  and retailers  associations
through which the parties will work to
ensure that by 2005, 95 percent  of the
two and four-stroke marine engines sold
in these states are  low-polluting. EPA
hopes to sign a similar agreement with
other local,  regional trade associations,
and the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation.
   Conventional   two-stroke   marine
engines powered  most outboard engines
and personal water craft. These engines
often emit dark smoke containing hydro-
carbons and nitrogen oxides, which con-
tribute to the formation of ground-level
ozone or smog. Unburned gasoline  is also
released directly into the water from such
engines,  and contaminate  water  bodies
with toxic chemicals such  as benzene,
toluene, xylene and ethylene.
                   This program can potentially benefit
                federal entities which own and operate
                boats  with  outboard  engines.  Four-
                stroke and direct
                fuel-inj ected
                two-stoke
                engines are com-
                mercially  avail-
                able  at  practi-
                cally any marine
                retailer.   Being
                part  of a clean
                marine   engine
                program     also
                provides  oppor-
                tunities for  fed-
                eral agencies  to
                partner    with
                states and indus-
                try.
                   EPA has  established  clean  marine
                engine agreements  with  the marine
                industry and state governments in Wis-
             The parties will work
             to ensure that by 2005,
             95 percent of the two
             and four-stroke marine
             engines  sold in these
           states are low-polluting.
         consin, Rhode Island, Vermont, Florida,
         Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Con-
         necticut, Massachusetts and Maryland.
                      New federal mandates for
                      low-emission engines take
                      effect in 2006, but those
                      participating in the clean
                      marine  engine programs
                      are committed to beating
                      that deadline  for the vast
                      majority of engines they
                      make and sell.
                        For more information on
                      clean marine  engines or
                      how to  set  up your  own
                      clean marine  engine  pro-
                      gram, visit http://www.epa.
                      gov/docs/Region2/clean
                      marine/index.html or  con-
                      tact  EPA  Region 2  Clean
         Marine Engine Project coordinator Tris-
         tan  Gillespie at: gillespie.tristan@epa.
         gov.
 FEDERAL FACILITIES PROGRAM MANAGERS  ENVIRONMENTAL  PROTECTION AGENCY
  HEADQUARTERS
  Greg Snyder, Director
  Planning, Prevention, &
  Compliance Staff
  US EPA
  Federal Facilities Enforcement Office
  1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC 20460
  snyder.greg@epa.gov
  Phone: 202-564-4271
  Fax:202-501-0069

  REGION 1
  Anne Fenn
  CT,ME,MA,NH,RI,VT
  US EPA Region 1
  Office of Environmental Stewardship
  1 Congress Street
  Suite 1100, Mail: SPP
  Boston, MA 02114-2023
  fenn.anne@epa.gov
  Phone:617-918-1805
  Fax:617-918-1810

  REGION 2
  Kathleen Malone
  NJ, NY, PR, VI
  US EPA Region 2
  Compliance Assistance Section
290 Broadway, 21st Fl.
New York, NY 10007-1866
malone.kathleen
@epa.gov
Phone:
Phone:212-637-4083
Fax: 212-637-4086

REGIONS
Jose Jimenez
DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV
US EPA Region 3
Office of Environmental Programs
1650 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029
jimenez.jose@epa.gov
Phone:215-814-2148
Fax:215-814-2783

REGION 4
Mark Robertson
Anthony She/ton
AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN
US EPA Region 4
Environmental Accountability
Division, Federal Facilities
61 Forsyth St., SW
Atlanta, GA 30303-8960
robertson.mark@epa.gov
shelton.anthony@epa.gov
Phone: 404-562-9639 (MR)
Phone: 404-562-9636 (AS)
Fax: 404-562-9598

REGIONS
Lee J. Regner
IL, IN, Ml, MN, OH, Wl
US EPA Region 5
Office of Enforcement & Compliance
Assurance
77 West Jackson Blvd
Chicago, IL 60604-3507
regner.lee@epa.gov
Phone:312-353-6478
Fax:312-353-5374

REGION 6
Joyce F. Stubbletield
AR, LA, NM, OK, TX
US EPA Region 6
Compliance Assurance &
Enforcement
Division
1445 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX 75202
stubblefield.joyce@epa.gov
Phone:214-665-6430
Fax:214-665-7446
REGION?
Diana Jackson
IA, KS, MO, NE
US EPA Region 7
Enforcement Coordination Office
901 North 5th Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
jackson.diana@epa.gov
Phone: 913-551-7744
Fax:913-551-9744

REGIONS
Dianne Thiel
CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY
US EPA Region 8
999 18th Street
Denver, CO 80202-2466
thiel.dianne@epa.gov:
Phone:303-312-6389
Fax: 303-312-6044

REGION 9
Larry Woods
Tom Kelly
AZ, CA, HI, NV, Pacific Islands
US EPA Region 9
Cross-Media Division
75 Hawthorne St, CMD-2
San Francisco, CA 94105
woods.larry@epa.gov:
kelly.thomasp@epa.gov
Phone: 415-972-3857 (LW)
Phone: 415-972-3856 (TK)
Fax: 415-972-3562

REGION 10
Michele Wright
AK, ID, OR, WA
US EPA Region 10
Office of Enforcement & Compliance
(OEC-164)
12006th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
wright.michele @epa.gov
Phone:206-553-1747
Fax:206-553-7176
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                                                                                                                    P2
Ovens Decrease Solvent  Use  at Los Alamos
   At Los  Alamos  National  Laboratory
   (LANL) staff are encouraged to find
and adopt methods for reducing waste
and preventing pollution. In two cases,
ovens reduced the need for solvents; they
are used to test the oil content of asphalt
samples,  and to  clean  glassware for
experiments.
   Before   construction materials  are
used at the  Laboratory,  samples  are
tested.  Asphalt aggregate is tested to
determine  the percentage of oil in the
sample. In the past, oil was removed from
samples by soaking and rinsing them in
Stoddard solvent, a hazardous waste. A
new binder oven now removes oil without
solvent, with  more accurate  results and
at a lower cost.
   The binder oven eliminates about 55
gallons  of  solvent  waste per year, and
labor costs are reduced by approximately
$24,000 per year. It reduces disposal costs,
storage space requirements, and  time
spent completing the  waste  documenta-
tion.  Employees are no longer exposed to
organic solvent, so health  risks and the
need for safety supplies are  reduced. Sam-
ples are tested almost three times faster,
and materials not meeting specifications
are identified and rejected more quickly.
The binder oven also reduces the chance
for human error during sample prepara-
tion by providing quantitative analysis of
oil content for each sample.
   A different oven cleans glassware in
several organic  chemistry labs  at LANL.
A  high-temperature oven decomposes
organic compounds, and organic vapors
in the exhaust  are destroyed  by  a  cat-
alytic oxidizer  system. The new ovens
eliminate  the need to clean  glassware
with oxidizing acids or solvents such as
acetone, methanol, or dichloromethane to
remove  organic residue.  Old  methods
exposed employees to hazardous chemi-
cals,  required  cleaning chemicals  and
rinse  water to  be treated  as hazardous
waste, and did not always completely
remove residue, contaminating glassware
for future experiments.
Binder oven at LANL.
   After the oven cleans the glassware,
researchers rinse it once to remove any
inorganic  compounds. Cleaning  glass-
ware  with the  high-temperature  oven
requires 50 percent less rinse water, is
expected to reduce  50 kg of  hazardous
waste per year, and save approximately
100 hours of staff time.
   For more information about LANL's
use of ovens at their labs, or  its vehicle
maintenance shop P2 strategies, please
contact  Sonja  Salzman  at:  ssalzman®
lanl.gov
  NATIONAL GUARD AND  ILLINOIS  PARTNER  ON  WEAPONS CLEANING  SYSTEM
  The Illinois Army National Guard (ILARNG) is using a centralized,
  ultrasonic aqueous weapons cleaning facility to cut down on haz-
  ardous solvent impregnated  cleaning cloths and wipes generated
  during weapons cleaning operations at its 54 armories throughout Illi-
  nois.
     The ILARNG  contacted the  Illinois Waste  Management and
  Research Center (WMRC), a division of the Illinois Department of Nat-
  ural Resources, to find a replacement for hazardous solvents it was
  using. WMRC suggested the  elimination  of hazardous solvents alto-
  gether. Aqueous detergents worked well removing oils and greases
  from weapon surfaces, but failed to remove carbon built-up on interior
  operating surfaces.  Heating  the  aqueous cleaners still failed  to
  remove the built-up carbon. The combination of heat, detergents and
  ultrasonic agitation proved most effective at removing oil, dirt and
  carbon from the most confined weapon surfaces.
     The cleaning system consists of an overhead gantry which  moves
  a rack of ten weapons through a three-tank  cleaning process. The
  first tank cleans, with the aid of two 24-inch stainless steel probe-type
  ultrasonic transducers. The second tank rinses the weapons, and the
  third tank introduces hot air  to assist drying. Cleaning and rinsing
  baths are heated to180 degrees.
                       For cleaning, the hand guards, bolt assembly and charging handle
                     are removed from the each weapon; the barrel assembly remains
                     attached to the receiver assembly, is disassembled, placed in a stain-
                     less steel mesh screen bag and attached to the weapon. Weapons are
                     placed in the storage rack, which is inverted and lifted into each tank
                     in turn. After drying, the soldier collects  his weapon, blows off any
                     remaining moisture with an  air compressor, lubricates and  reassem-
                     bles the  weapon.
                       An ultra filtration membrane system reclaims spent cleaner solu-
                     tion and  rinse water. Reclaimed water and detergent is returned to the
                     cleaning system and the contaminants, the oil  dirt and  carbon, are
                     concentrated for disposal.
                       This  weapons cleaning system  has operated for a year with no
                     major problems. The system design allows unit armorers to operate
                     the system with minimal instruction.  Facility personnel  inspect and
                     perform  maintenance on the system after  each training period.
                       Jon  Casebeer is  the ILARNG  point of contact for questions
                     pertaining to this system and  can be reached at: (217)  761-3794,
                     Jon.Casebeer@il.ngb.army.mil. Mike Springman is the WMRC point of
                     contact  and  can be reached  at:  (618)  466-3806; wmrc@piasanet.
                     com.
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P2
U.  S. Air Force Adopts  Lead-Free  Ammo  for  Training
       U. S. Air Force recently adopted
   lead-free ammunition for training at
base small arms ranges. The transition to
lead-free ammunition  is a  P2  strategy
that  solves multiple  environmental,
safety,  and health problems,  while
enhancing the training mission at little to
no additional cost.
   Conventional lead-containing ammu-
nition poses serious potential and actual
environmental, safety  and health prob-
lems at small arms ranges. The Air Force
began  its search for an  alternative to
lead-containing ammunition in  1998.
While  improved range design  features
could reduce some  problems,  the best
approach was to eliminate lead-contain-
ing ammunition and replace it with lead-
free ammunition for training wherever
possible.
   A small number of Air Force's problem
ranges initially  tested  several types of
commercially available lead-free ammuni-
tion. The Air Force later teamed with the
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in
Crane, Ind.,  and procured 5.56mm and
9mm lead-free ammunition from  several
companies, and continued testing at the
NSWC ballistic laboratories.
   The ammunition  selected is accurate
and  reliable in training,  and is user-
transparent to the firer of the weapon. It
contains no lead or toxic heavy metals (in
either the projectile  or the priming com-
position) , functions reliably in unmodified
weapons,  and  is  cost-competitive  with
conventional ammunition.
   Lead-free ammunition  also  means
range staff airborne  lead exposure limits
are no longer applicable, and  time-con-
suming,  expensive range  cleaning and
abatement is no  longer necessary. Fur-
                     ther, safety is enhanced because the new
                     ammunition  is  free from  ricochet risk,
                     and environmental lead contamination of
                     soil, ground water, and surface water can-
                     not occur. In addition, future small arms
                     range designs will be simplified and more
                     cost-effective.
                        The  Air Force  contracted  with the
                     Winchester Division of Olin Corporation
                     and the Federal Cartridge Corporation
                     for 9mm and 5.56mm calibers of ammu-
                     nition  respectively. This ammunition
                     should be in full use by late 2004. Adop-
                     tion of lead-free training ammunition  in
                     12 gauge shotgun and 7.62mm NATO are
                     imminent.
                        For  more information about the Air
                     Force's  lead-free ammunition program,
                     please contact: Dennis Kirsch, P.E., Ran-
                     dolph Air Force Base, TX. (210) 652-3240;
                     dennis.kirsch@randolph.af.mil
  FORT HOOD TANKER PURGE  FACILITY
  One of Fort Hood's flagship P2 programs is its tanker purge facility. Since
  late 2002, Fort Hood, a U.S. Army installation in central Texas, has elimi-
  nated the discharge of over one million gallons of water into sewer sys-
  tems, and saved thousands of gallons of water.
     A tanker purge facility is  key to keeping Army operations moving
  smoothly. Large tanker trucks move fuel to vehicles in the field and from
  unit to unit, and  must be cleaned periodically to keep fuel from becoming
  contaminated. During high operational phases, like the current one with
  Iraq, tanker cleaning times increase greatly.
     In the past, tanker cleaning required a great deal of water as well
  as  time, sometimes as much as eight hours for each tanker. During
  cleaning, soldiers were not available to train, and tankers were not
  available for missions. Tankers used to be cleaned by filling the fuel
  tank with water, pouring in a cleaning solution and manually agitating
  the tank by driving it. This process was  repeated four to five times
  before the tank was clean. Vast amounts of water were used - often
  20,000 gallons of water to clean each tanker. The fuel-contaminated
  water was directly released into sewer systems, sometimes without
  even  adequately cleaning the tank.
     The new  purge facility system uses a closed  loop, high-pressure
  washstand that can accommodate two 5,000 gallon trucks; each truck is
  completely cleaned in 1.5 hours. Upto45tankertrucks can be cleaned in
  a month, even at times of high turn-over. The system recycles all water in
  a closed loop system and can  be used many times. By heating water to
  150 degrees, water more thoroughly cleans the tank, and is then flushed
                                •    '}
                                   and  filtered  into another
                                   holding  tank  where  fuel
                                   residue is skimmed off. Both
                                   water and fuel can be recy-
                                   cled  and reused, and  only
                                   five to ten gallons of water
                                   are  lost. Nothing  is  dis-
                                   charged  into  the  storm
                                   water system.
   Construction on this facility will continue into 2004. It will be enclosed
in a structure built with agriboard, a sustainable, energy efficient, panel-
ized building material made of compressed wheat straw. The panelized
system can be  erected in one fifth the time of conventional normal  stud
wall building, which saves considerable dollars on labor  costs. When
completed, the purge facility will be a model for other military installa-
tions involved in sustainability and pollution prevention projects.
   Fort Hood is the largest armored  military training installation in the
U.S. Army. Encompassing 214,351 acres, it is home to the III Corps, 1st
Cavalry Division, 4th Infantry Division,  13th Corps Support Command, and
eight other  brigade-size units.  The  Fort Hood-supported population,
which includes retirees, survivors, and their family members, is approxi-
mately 170,745.
   For more information about Fort Hood's tanker purge facility, contact
Randy Doyle, P2  Program Manager,  Fort Hood. (254) 287-1099; randy.
doyle@us.army.mil
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NASA Technology  Reduces  Smokestack and
Automotive Emissions
         to NASA, a new  method for
   reducing smokestack and automotive
emissions may soon be in use throughout
the country. Originally created for satel-
lite lasers to  measure the  chemical
makeup of the Earth's atmosphere, the
smokestack and automotive catalytic con-
verter  application  of
Low-Temperature Oxi-
dation       Catalysts
(LTOC)   enables  the
destruction of pollutant
gasses,  such  as carbon
monoxide  and hydro-
carbons, as well as some
nitrogen oxides.
   Developed      at
NASA's      Langley
Research      Center,
Hampton, Va., LTOC technology  is
expected to reduce formaldehyde and
carbon  monoxide  concentrations  in
smokestack emissions by approximately
85 to 95 percent, while reducing auto-
motive  pollution emissions by approxi-
mately 30 percent.
   Current pollution remediation tech-
nologies are typically very expensive to
implement and maintain. The catalytic-
based formaldehyde remediation sys-
tem will be  relatively inexpensive  to
implement and maintain within contin-
uously operating facilities. It will reduce
the time and cost associated with indus-
trial compliance  with  current  and
future federal pollution standards.
   NASA originally called on Langley
researchers to develop a technology for
space-based  carbon-dioxide  laser sys-
tems. To maintain carbon dioxide lasers
in space  for  atmospheric  research,
NASA  needed  a  catalyst system that
would  affect  the oxidation  of carbon
monoxide, a by-product of carbon-diox-
ide laser operation,  under the cold vac-
uum of space.
   Although the need for a carbon diox-
ide laser in space gave way to solid-state
lasers,  the NASA research team devel-
Originally created for
use in space, NASA's
   LOTC technology
  has been adapted
   for use on Earth.
oped an oxidation technology that would
work at very low temperatures. LTOC
technologies were  then adapted  for
higher  temperature applications  like
smokestack emissions and the internal
combustion engine.
  An  automotive catalytic  converter
                 using LTOC technol-
                 ogy has met initial
                 EPA  requirements
                 and California emis-
                 sion standards  for
                 the    automotive
                 after-market.   The
                 LTOC catalytic  con-
                 verter   does    not
                              require a warm-up
                              period  to  function
                              and  uses  signifi-
             cantly fewer precious metals than current
             commercial products, which reduces the
             overall cost of an after-market product by
             25 percent.
                Most  modern  automobiles  are
             equipped with catalytic converters that
             treat engine exhaust before it leaves the
             car. Current technology requires the
             exhaust to reach a  high  temperature
             before the catalytic  converter begins to
             work. LTOC begins to operate at a much
             lower temperature or as soon as the car
             is started.
                Because of its low-temperature oxi-
             dation capabilities,  the NASA catalyst
             begins  to  work  almost immediately
             enabling destruction of toxic gases even
             when the catalytic converter is cold.
                Through NASA's technology commer-
             cialization program, Automated Con-
             trols Technologies, Inc. (A.C.T) of Fair-
             mont, W. Va., is the exclusive licensee
             for the  NASA LTOC smokestack  appli-
             cation.  A.C.T. officials expect to have
             products on the market in early 2004.
             Airflow   Catalyst   Systems   Inc.,
             Rochester,  N.Y., is the licensee for the
             internal combustion application.
                Other LTOC technologies include:
             sensors for carbon monoxide or volatile
P2 Quicknotes

THE POLLUTION PRE-
VENTION  RESOURCE
EXCHANGE (P2RX)
P2RX is a consortium of eight regional pol-
lution prevention information centers and
has  several  resources  available  at
http://www.p2rx.org. P2Rx produces "topic
hubs" designed to provide an overview,
process  information, P2 options, and best
documents (links) of the industrial sector or
the topic being covered. Jean Waters has
more information  at:  402-595-1826  or
jwaters@mail.unomaha.edu.

WHAT'S NEW AT THE
P2 INFORMATION
CLEARINGHOUSE?
The Pollution Prevention Information Clear-
inghouse (PPIC) is a free service of the U.S.
EPA dedicated to reducing or eliminating
industrial pollutants in the environment.
PPIC provides copies of EPA pollution pre-
vention publications and supports clients in
accessing Internet-based P2 resources.  To
visit  PPIC's  homepage  and  its  new
resources, go  to:  http://www.epa.gov/
opptintr/library/ppicindex.htm
                                      organic compounds; removal of carbon
                                      monoxide   and  formaldehyde  from
                                      houses  and   other  buildings;   and
                                      removal  of  carbon  monoxide   and
                                      formaldehyde  from automobile, aircraft
                                      and other vehicle interiors. NASA  is
                                      still  accepting license  inquiries for
                                      available LTOC applications.
                                         For more information about NASA
                                      LTOC  technologies,  please  contact:
                                      Chris  Rink, NASA Langley Research
                                      Center;  (757)  864-6786; Christopher.p.
                                      rink@nasa.gov
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                                                                             In   the   Spotlight
EPA Region 10 Recognizes
Northwest Environmental
Projects

  Federal facilities are among the win-
  ners  of  EPA  Region 10's  (Seattle)
recently announced first annual "Cham-
pions for Environmental Leadership
and  'Green' Government  Innovation"
awards program. Eleven facilities were
recognized for their cooperative efforts
and  their "green" projects. Region 10
thanks all 2003 recipients, and reminds
other facilities in its region  to  think
about 2004  submissions. The call  for
nominations will  go out in early 2004.

  The awardees  for 2003 are:
  Elmendorf   Air   Force  Base,
Alaska — Air Quality Innovations and
Hazardous Waste Reutilization. The Air
Program saved an estimated  $1.5 mil-
lion  dollars in  administrative  record
keeping  costs.   Elmendorf partnered
with the Defense  Reutilization and Mar-
keting Service  (DRMS) and recycled
over two million pounds of hazardous
wastes  generated by Alaska military
installations.
  Department  of Energy, Richland,
Wash. Operations  Office  — Water
Distribution, Hanford  Mortar-Lining.
The mortar-lining technique is an envi-
ronmentally friendly,  cost-effective,
trenchless   pipeline   rehabilitation
process  extending the  life  of existing
waterlines with a thin- coated, cement-
like mortar applied inside the pipeline.
Flow rates tripled from 460 gallons  per
minute  to  1,403 gallons per minute.
DOE continues to mortar-line Hanford's
degraded pipes to ensure water service.
  Denali National Park and Pre-
serve, Alaska — Alternative Energy.
Energy management  and generator
improvements were  made  at Wonder
Lake Ranger Station, Toklat  Road
Camp, and Eielson Visitor Center. The
new propane generators  are operated
for eight hours every fifth day, instead of
daily as with  the older generators.
There  are significant reductions  in
noise, spill hazards, and exhaust emis-
sions,  and  fuel  consumption  was
reduced by about 60 percent.
  U.S. Naval Air Station (NAS),
Whidbey Island,  Wash. — Recycling
and Alternative Fueled Vehicles. Com-
bined  P2 efforts  by  NAS employees
diverted  111  million  pounds of solid
waste and  compostable materials from
the waste stream, representing a 65 per-
cent reduction in solid waste over a  13
year period. NAS currently uses 16 elec-
tric vehicles, which significantly reduce
emissions,  noise,  and fossil  fuel  con-
sumption, and save approximately 130
man-hours and  $6,100 dollars per user
per year,  and  $858  in fossil fuel usage.
  U.S. Army - Fort Lewis, Wash.  —
Installation  Sustainability  Program.
Between  1994  and  2001, Ft.  Lewis
reduced hazardous material usage and
waste from 600,629 pounds to 254,578
pounds. The Installation Sustainability
Program  (ISP) set  12 strategic goals to
guide program efforts  through 2005. A
full version of the ISP report  can  be
found  at:  http://www.lewis.army.mil/
publicworks/ftlnternet/ftLewisInfo/
s is tainability/Sustainability Annual
Report.pdf
  Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), Renton, Wash. — Leadership
in Energy  and  Environmental  Design
(LEED)  Tracon  Building and  Green
Power Purchasing Program. Seatac Ter-
minal  Radar  Approach Control (TRA-
CON) is the first FAA building to meet
LEED  standards and receive LEED's
Certification Gold Level. The TRACON
project includes:  energy and water effi-
ciency; reduction or elimination of toxic
or hazardous building materials; recy-
cling; environmentally preferable mate-
rials, and indoor air quality improve-
ment  with   environmentally   safe
material,  equipment and  construction
processes. The Green Power Purchasing
program stormwater management plan
removes 80  percent  average  annual
post-development   total   suspended
solids, and 40 percent post development
phosphorus. Overall potable water sav-
ings is at least 30 percent.
   Eielson  AFB,  Alaska — Refuse
Derived Fuel Program (RDF) and Com-
munity  Support. Eielson  instituted a
process  to use waste  paper  and card-
board materials in conjunction with coal
in coal fired machinery.  This re-use of
70-80 tons  per month of waste  paper
products collected  from  the  Base and
neighboring  communities  has saved
Eielson  approximately $1.2 million dol-
lars in tipping fees  and coal costs in  the
past six years.
   General Services Administration
(GSA), Auburn, Wash. — Renewable
Energy  Program. GSA, in partnership
with Bonneville  Power Administration
completed two photovoltaic projects at
GSA facilities in  2002  - a five kilowatt
system at the U.S.  Courthouse/Federal
Office Building in Richland, Wash., and
a 2.5 kilowatt system  at its fleet man-
agement building  in  Auburn, Wash..
Electrical cost savings are estimated at
$1200 a year. These projects help offset
energy  needs during peak summer
month consumption, reduce dependency
on fossil fuels and purchased electricity,
and are cleaner and more efficient than
traditional forms of energy.
   Bonneville  Power  Administra
tion (BPA), Portland, Ore. — Water
and Wastewater Energy. BPA's Water
and Wastewater   Program   serves
medium and small sized communities in
Washington state.  Clustering multiple
projects  resulted  in  energy  savings
ranging from 13 to  38  percent at modi-
fied plant  areas. Savings average
500,000  kilowatts per facility,  and
reduces approximately 70  tons of car-
bon-dioxide per year. This also  equates
to planting 19 acres of trees or taking 14
automobiles off the  roads.
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 (continued)
   Northwest   Fisheries   Science
Center (NOAA), Seattle, Wash. — P2
and Waste Reduction. By installing  a
nitrogen/protein analyzer to replace the
hazardous Kjeldahl Method, NOAA dra-
matically reduced  hazardous  waste,
chemical usage,  employee exposure to
hazardous materials and cost. Approxi-
mately 400 pounds of hazardous waste
are eliminated annually at an approxi-
mate  cost of $1200  dollars.  Other
extraction systems  reduce methylene
chloride, PCBs and pesticides.
   For more  information  about these
awards  please contact: Michele  Wright
at wright.michele@epa.gov.
EPA's Performance Track
Salutes DOE and
DynMcdermott
   The  U.S.  Department of  Energy
   (DOE)  and  DynMcDermott Petro-
leum  Operations  Company, located in
New Orleans, are charter members of
EPA's most comprehensive  voluntary
protection program,  the National Envi-
ronmental Performance Track.  DynMc-
Dermott is hailed as a model  for pro-
gram members,  and  recently  won
renewal of its contract  to manage and
operate  the U.S.  Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (SPR). According to DynMcDer-
mott,  company employees were largely
responsible for the renewal because of
their  efforts  in environmental, safety,
and health areas.
   Performance  Track  promotes envi-
ronmental performance which  exceeds
regulatory requirements. All  federal
facilities  and U.S.  companies  with  a
proven record of regulatory compliance,
an operational environmental manage-
ment  system, a demonstrated  commit-
ment   to   continued  environmental
improvement, and outreach to the local
community and  the public may  be eligi-
ble to join. Benefits for members include
recognition on a national scale; low pri-
ority for routine inspections; use of the
Performance Track  logo; networking
opportunities; and access to  regulatory
changes that reduce  reporting require-
ments and administrative costs.
   The SPR was established in 1973 to
prevent commercial oil supply disrup-
tions which  may disrupt the U.S. econ-
omy. It is located  in deep underground
salt  caverns along the  Gulf Coast  of
Texas and Louisiana,  and contains the
world's largest stockpile of crude oil.
   DynMcDermott, an ISO 14001-certi-
fied company with 500-1000 employees,
is  responsible for storing and distribut-
ing the SPR's crude oil in the event of a
national energy emergency. In its appli-
cation to Performance Track in 2000, it
noted significant  reductions  in  haz-
ardous materials consumption and haz-
ardous waste, and committed to achieve
more reductions in the upcoming three
year period.
   DynMcDermott submitted its annual
performance report  for  Performance
Track in July 2002,  and described  a
SPR-wide  pollution prevention assess-
ment to determine  opportunities for
waste reduction and recycling, and pro-
posals for P2 projects. The projects will
address DOE's P2 and energy efficiency
goals for reducing  hazardous waste, and
reducing sanitary waste through recy-
cling.
   Highlights of  their recycling cam-
paign include the following:  900 pounds
of telephone books and 94  pounds  of
Mardi Gras beads  recycled; 3,208
pounds of excess paint given to the city
of Freeport, La.;  80  pounds of excess
mixed paint used as a curing agent and
to paint a helicopter pad; 356 pounds of
spent wireline grease generated from
cavern work reused;  over one million
pounds  of  used  asphalt and  270,000
pounds of dirt from landfill disposed by
donating it to the local parish landfill.
   A 960 pound reduction in hazardous
solid waste was met and surpassed, and
a goal of 15 percent recycling for total
solid  waste has been almost reached,
and air emissions reductions were met
and surpassed two years ahead  of the
commitment date.
   As part of its community outreach,
the SPR's environmental committee col-
laborates  with  emergency planning
committees, mutual aid associations,
local fire departments, and other local
groups. An annual  site environmental
report is made  available to the media,
libraries,  elected  officials  and  other
interested  parties on DynMcDermott's
website: www.spr.doe.gov.
   DynMcDermott's    environmental
committee  conducted quarterly  meet-
ings  with community advisors,  contin-
ues to work with  a local non-govern-
mental organization assisting  in  an
annual local shoreline cleanup  cam-
paign, is a major corporate  sponsor  for
DOE's  Louisiana  Regional  Science
Bowl,  and maintains a business and
education partnership with an "at risk"
junior high school. Each SPR site adopts
a non-profit organization in the commu-
nity and provides gifts to needy families
or individuals  during the   Christmas
season.  Over  70   environmental/P2
awards were given to DynMcDermott
contractor  employees through the com-
pany's Pollution Prevention Awareness
Program.
   Currently, there are 17 other federal
facilities in Performance Track. Applica-
tions  are accepted twice annually; the
next application period will be Febru-
ary-  April  30,  2004.  Application forms
are   found  at  http://www.epa.gov/
performancetrack/apps/app.htm. For
more information, please contact Luctri-
cian  Booth  at  (202)  566-2867,  or
booth.luctrician @epa.gov.
   Visit Performance Track at:  http://www.
epa.gov/performancetrack.
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Federal Facilities Recognized
with National P2 Award
      National  Pollution Prevention
   Roundtable's  Most Valuable  Pollu-
tion Prevention  (MVP2)  award  was
given to  two federal facilities  at an
award  ceremony  in Washington,  D.C.
this past September. A contractor at the
Los Alamos  National Laboratory  was
also recognized with an  MVP2 award.
The MVP2 award is a national  award
given to  organizations  which demon-
strate exemplary environmental stew-
ardship and P2 efforts.
   The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(COE), Alaska District and Jacobs Engi-
neering won their award  for an asphalt
recycling project in Kodiak, Alaska. By
using recycled contaminated  material
as a base course for  road paving, the
  P2  Quicknotes

  EPA AWARDED A
  BLANKET PURCHASE
  AGREEMENT (BPA)
  Corporate Express was awarded a BPA for
  all desktop and non-electronic office sup-
  plies EPA purchases using a purchase card.
  In a  BPA, an agency agrees to purchase
  products from a designated vendor. EPA tai-
  lored its agency-specific e-catalog to meet
  specific environmentally preferable  pur-
  chasing (EPP)  needs.  This gives  EPA
  employees access to  green office supplies
  through a  commercially owned,  agency
  specific e-catalog. Using the BPA will
  greatly increase EPA's purchase of green
  office supplies and will increase purchase
  of office supplies mandated  by Javitz-
  Wagner-OTJay (JWOD). The BPA will also
  increase purchasing  from small business
  vendors, give EPA access to  group dis-
  counts, and allow for better tracking of all
  office supply purchases made with  pur-
  chase cards. This will help EPA learn what
  purchasers are buying and how to  improve
  the system.
  WHITE HOUSE CLOSING THE CIRCLE AWARDS: 2004
  The Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE) is inviting nominations for the
  2004 White House Closing the Circle (CTC) Awards. This program recognizes Federal
  employees and their facilities for efforts which resulted in significant contributions to or
  have made a significant impact on the environment. The awards focus on waste pre-
  vention, recycling, and green purchasing activities under E.0.13101, pollution prevention
  and environmental  management under E.O. 13148, and green/sustainable  buildings
  under both executive orders. The complete directions, including information  on agen-
  cies' internal awards programs and changes to the 2004 award categories, can be found
  on OFEE's web site: http://www.ofee.gov/(click on the "Closing the Circle Awards Nom-
  ination" button on the left side of the home page). If you have any questions  call us at
  (202) 564-1297. Good Luck!
COE  minimized  waste streams,  pro-
vided a remote Alaskan community with
a paved road and decreased remediation
costs. Transporting the 31,500 tons of
material by truck and barge to the near-
est suitable landfill in the state of Wash-
ington would have  consumed  substan-
tial fuel and  resulted in air emissions,
as well as increasing the ecological risk.
By not utilizing thermal treatment,
504,000 gallons  of  fuel was avoided
along with the associated emissions of
450  pounds  of carbon monoxide and
1,850 pounds of particulates. The esti-
mated cost savings  are more than $1.5
million in  direct savings, and there were
also secondary benefits to the local econ-
omy.
   The Naval  Facilities  Engineering
Service Center in Port Hueneme, Calif.
received   an  award for their project
"Cost-Effective Protection of Ground
Water Resources from MTBE and Other
Fuel-related  Water  Pollutants." This
innovative project developed P2 technol-
ogy for underground storage tanks, and
is the product of five years of collabora-
tion  between the federal  government,
academia, and industry. One site using
this  technology  documented  cost sav-
ings of over $30 million. U.S. Represen-
tative Lois Capps personally presented
the award at the ceremony. U.S. Senator
Dianne Feinstein sent a letter of con-
gratulations.
   Finally, KSL's staff at Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL) was recog-
nized for pollution prevention  improve-
ments to the vehicle maintenance shop
at LANL. Shop employees identified the
root cause of most oil leaks - failure of
aluminum fittings - and  replaced them
with sturdier, although more expensive,
steel ferrules. This resulted in over 70
percent fewer spills.  Contaminated soil
was significantly reduced, and LANL is
able to treat it on-site using innovative
approaches developed by the auto shop
employees. Spills inside the shop are
cleaned with self-cleaning and reusable
oil-digesting  bacteria.  Bio-based, non-
toxic hydraulic fluid made from soybean
extract  has  replaced petroleum-based
fluid used in forklifts at radiological con-
trol areas  outside.  If fluid  leaks do
result, it simply degrades into the soil.
   LANL has also installed a hot water
parts washer, which saves time, enables
LANL to  recycle  oil and  water,  and
reduces employee exposure to  solvents.
Projects  at  LANL  resulted in yearly
labor  savings of approximately $40,000
and avoided costs of more than $80,000.
KSL received letters of congratulations
from U.S. Senators Pete Domenici and
Jeff Bingaman. (Also see the article on
page  17 about other P2 strategies at
LANL.)
   NPPR  anticipates applications  for
next year's MVP2 awards to be accepted
until May 15, 2004,  and winners noti-
fied by July  15.  Awards will  be  pre-
sented during National Pollution  Pre-
vention week, which will be September
20-26. For  further  information, visit
NPPR's website at: http://www.p2.org.
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Selected  P2  Internet  Resources
http://www.epa.gov/p2
This is the U.S. EPA's primary P2 website. Links
to many other P2 resources can be found here.

http://www.ofee.gov
Office of the Federal Environmental Executive -
promotes sustainable environmental steward-
ship throughout the federal government.

http://www.p2.org/
National Pollution Prevention Roundtable - is
the  largest membership organization  in the
United States devoted solely to P2. The Round-
table's mission is to provide a national forum for
promoting  the development,  implementation,
and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or
reduce pollution atthe source.

http://www.p2gems.org/
P2 GEMS  - A database containing full  text
research documents, research summaries,
citations, and names of experts and resources.
Publicly   funded   P2  clearinghouses  and
research centers across the United States are
making special databases  and  P2 research
summaries available on the Web.

http://www.p2rx.org/
Pollution  Prevention  Resource  Exchange
(P2Rx) - This network consists of nine regional
pollution prevention centers that  offer a variety
of resources, including information for  specific
industry sectors, training, libraries, referrals and
research. Through P2Rx, the nine centers are
laying the groundwork for a seamless  national
network  of easily accessible, high-quality P2
information.

http://www.epa.gov/oppt/
library/ppicdist.htm
This is EPA's Pollution Prevention Information
Clearinghouse (PPIC). This  site  contains  EPA
publications about pollution prevention. Many
documents are available electronically, but
some documents must be requested from EPA.

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/
The objective of EPA's Environmentally Prefer-
able Purchasing Program (EPP) is to encourage,
motivate, and assist Federal agencies to include
environmental  concerns, along with  price and
performance, as a factor in their purchasing
decisions. The EPP Web site provides guidance,
case studies, tools, and other resources to help
agencies  procure environmentally preferable
products and services.  These  products have
reduced effects on human health and the envi-
ronment when compared to others serving the
same purpose.

http://www.epa.gov/p2/
programs/PBT.htm
EPA's Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic
(PBT) Strategy focuses  attention  on reducing
risks from highly toxic substances that can build
up in the food chain to levels harmful to human
health. This website contains information about
preventing PBTs.

http://www.p2pays.org/
The Waste Reduction Resource Center (WRRC)
provides technical Pollution Prevention (P2)
support to the states in EPA Regions III  and IV.

http://www.assistancecenters.net/
Compliance Assistance Centers -  In addition to
compliance assistance, many of these sites also
contain P2 information.

http://www.nrc-recycle.org/
The National Recycling Coalition,  Inc. (NRC) is
a nonprofit organization committed to maximiz-
ing recycling to achieve the benefits of resource
conservation, solid waste reduction, environ-
mental  protection, energy conservation and
social and economic development.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/femp/
The Department of Energy's Federal Energy
Management Program works to reduce  the cost
and environmental impact of the  Federal gov-
ernment by advancing energy  efficiency and
water conservation, promoting the use of dis-
tributed and renewable energy, and improving
utility management decisions at Federal sites.

http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/
DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Network/Smart Communities Network. Infor-
mation  on green buildings, land use planning,
and other sustainable practices.
FAA ENVIRONMENTALLY
PREFERABLE  PRODUCT
WEB RESOURCES
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
is actively reducing its hazardous materi-
als usage and hazardous waster genera-
tion through several initiatives. The FAA's
affirmative procurement  program encour-
ages facilities to purchase and use  envi-
ronmentally preferable products and ser-
vices.  To assist  in  promoting  these
programs, the Office  of  Environment and
Energy created a product  substitution
guide to  identify environmentally prefer-
able  alternatives for hazardous materials
used by the FAA. The FAA's Environmental
Substitution  Guide  can  be found  at
http://www.aee.faa.gov/aee-200/sub_
guide/begin.htm.
   The products identified in this guide are
either non-hazardous or  have more favor-
able  environmental,  safety,  and health
properties than currently used products.
The products are organized into the follow-
ing categories: Adhesives, Cleaners/Sol-
vents, Corrosion Preventive  Compounds,
Lubricants, Pesticides, Electronics Clean-
ing and Flux, and Freeze Spray. A new sec-
tion covering Affirmative Procurement was
added with the 2003 edition.
   A number of P2 brochures and hand-
outs  have been made available to the FAA
community. These were  developed  in
preparation for P2 week and America
Recycles Day at FAA Headquarters. Part of
promoting "green" awareness  requires
information distribution to FAA employees
and their concerned public.
   For P2 week, a  new FAA Environmen-
tally  and  Economically  Beneficial  Land-
scaping Guide was developed and distrib-
uted    throughout  the    FAA.   The
Environmentally and Economically Benefi-
cial Landscaping Guide and information on
recycling  can  be   found   at  http://
www.aee.faa.gov/aee-200/recycle2.htm.
For  more information  contact: frank.
lanzetta@faa.gov [202-267-3497].
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                                                                      Enforcement  News
EPA and  DoD  Resolve  Post-ROD  Issues
   On October 2, 2003, EPA and DoD suc-
   cessfully resolved a nearly three-year
post-Record of Decision (ROD)  dispute
that will now expedite decision-making at
dozens of military Superfund  cleanup
sites for years to come. The ROD docu-
ments the approach that will be used to
cleanup pollution at a site.  EPA and DoD
disagreed over the appropriate EPA over-
sight role in determining  what actions
are needed to implement  and maintain
land use controls which help ensure  the
cleanup remains protective  after the rem-
edy has been selected.
   Land use controls typically allow some
pollution to remain in place, as long as it
can be managed safely and effectively,
and not compromise human health or the
environment. For instance,  it may be best
to cap a military landfill containing trash
and other wastes rather than removing
its contents, which can be quite expensive
and unnecessary to ensure  site safety.
However, for the cap to continue to be
safe, its integrity must be maintained.
Land use controls help ensure, as part of
the long-term maintenance  of the remedy,
that trees would not be allowed to grow in
the cap and that service men and women
or others  did not dig through  the  cap
inadvertently. Because land use  controls
are part of the  remedy, EPA insists that
land use  controls  be  fully evaluated,
designed, and implemented,  just as  the
physical part of the remedy. In addition,
EPA has an important oversight respon-
sibility to ensure  that they are and
remain safe.
   After lengthy negotiations first with
the Navy, and later with the Army, EPA
and the Navy agreed to a set of principles
(the Navy Principles). The Navy Princi-
ples include land use controls in a ROD
and guarantee  a role for EPA in imple-
mentation and maintenance  decisions of
these controls. Because of EPA's  and  the
Navy's hard work and good faith negotia-
tions, they, along with the Army and the
Defense Logistics Agency, reached a reso-
lution that streamlined the information
needed on actions required to ensure land
use controls are safe. An EPA/DoD  task
force will soon examine further efficien-
cies and economies for  site management
and oversight.
   EPA also agreed to  give  full and fair
consideration  to a new, alternative per-
formance-based approach suggested by
the Air Force. EPA will assess the Air
Force's approach on a  site-specific basis
and see how  and whether  the service's
proposed  principles might  be used to
reach  resolution regarding Air Force
cleanups.
   For  further information, contact Sally
Dalzell at U.S. EPA at (202)  564-2583.
Enforcement Roundup

ALJ Finds Penalty Appropriate
in CAA NESHAP Case Against
Fort Jackson
In an Initial Decision dated September
12, 2003, Administrative  Law Judge
(ALJ) William Moran found EPA Region
4's (Atlanta) proposed penalty was appro-
priate, and assessed the full civil penalty
of $85,800 for Clean Air Act (CAA)
NESHAP-Asbestos violations at the U.S.
Army Training Center, Fort Jackson, S.C.
The violations included failure to provide
written  notice  prior to  the renovation
activity; failure to  inspect facility for
asbestos prior to the renovation; failure to
use trained personnel during the renova-
tion;  and  failure  to  keep removed
asbestos material wet until collected for
disposal. Fort Jackson stipulated it was
liable for the violations,  but raised as a
defense that the EPA Administrator had
not properly delegated authority to make
the required CAA  Section 113(d)(l) con-
currence  (with the U.S. Attorney Gen-
eral) on any Section 113(d) action involv-
ing violations greater than one year old.
Fort Jackson also challenged application
of the CAA Section 113(e) penalty assess-
ment criterion of "size of business," as
well as the overall appropriateness of the
penalty. ALJ Moran rejected Fort Jack-
son's arguments, and found the delega-
tion of authority exists and was properly
made from the EPA Administrator. Citing
the EPA  Environmental Appeals Board
(EAB) decision in U.S. Army, Fort Wain-
wright Central Heating and Power Plant,
the ALJ  held that consideration of the
"size of business"  penalty criterion  is
appropriate, and that Region 4's (Atlanta)
application of the  various CAA penalty
policies in proposing its penalty was rea-
sonable and based on the facts of the case.

Region  6 RCRA Settlement
Reached for FAA's Mike
Monroney Aeronautical Center
On July 28, 2003, EPA Region 6 (Dallas)
signed  a  Consent Agreement  and Final
Order (CA/FO) to  address violations  of
the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act  (RCRA) at the  Federal Aviation
Administration's (FAA's) Mike Monroney
Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City,
Okla. The CA/FO requires FAA to pay a
penalty of $67,210, and orders compli-
ance. The CA/FO  alleges  10 separate
counts  with  the majority of violations
relating to the facility's failure to meet
the permit exemption requirements for a
RCRA  generator.  The  counts in the
CA/FO  include failure to label, date, and
close containers, failure to manage satel-
lite accumulation  areas appropriately,
failure to  update hazardous waste train-
ing, failure to maintain an adequate Con-
tingency Plan, failure to make hazardous
waste  determinations, failure to label
used oil tanks and containers, and failure
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to comply with reporting requirements.
EPA is pleased with the efforts that the
FAA Mike Monroney Center has made to
improve  its  hazardous waste manage-
ment programs and to reduce the likeli-
hood that similar violations will occur in
the future.

Region 8 Issues Order to BOB
Regarding Four Bears Drinking
Water Treatment Plant
On October 14, 2003, EPA Region 8 (Den-
ver) issued an Administrative Order on
Consent (AOC)  against the Department
of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (BOR)
for violations of the Safe Drinking Water
Act (SDWA)  at the  Four Bears Drinking
Water Treatment Plant, N.D. After a July
2003 meeting with BOR,  an AOC was
agreed to by the parties. The  BOR owns
and funds the plant,  but it is managed
and operated by the tribe. The public
water system (PWS) violated SDWA tur-
bidity standards in April 2003, and thus
provided potentially unsafe water to its
customers. The Four  Bears PWS opera-
tors are not adequately trained on plant
operations, and the AOC requires BOR to
hold the tribe accountable and comply
with the AOC. The AOC includes stipu-
lated penalties for failure to comply, and
if this does not occur EPA will consider an
AO against the tribe.

Region 8 Settles Action
Against BIA UST Violations
On August 27, 2003, EPA Region 8 (Den-
ver) executed a Consent Agreement and
Final Order  (CAFO) settling a RCRA
Subtitle I - Underground Storage Tank
(UST)  enforcement action against  the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) - Standing
Rock Agency, Ft. Yates Law Enforcement
Facility, Ft.  Yates,  N.D. The  Ft. Yates
facility is within the exterior boundaries
of the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reser-
vation. The CAFO requires BIA to pay a
$16,943 penalty, and conduct Supplemen-
tal Environmental Projects (SEPs) worth
at least $26,000. The SEPs will include
removal of non-regulated  heating  fuel
USTs,  closure  site assessments and, if
necessary, corrective actions at any of the
tank sites. The settlement  also includes
an environmental audit of all BIA owned
or operated facilities  at the Standing
Rock Agency, including any  of BIA's grant
or contract facilities. The  settlement
arises from an April 1,  2003, EPA Region
8 administrative complaint alleging UST
violations against Ft. Yates for failing to:
maintain  leak  detection  monitoring
records; operate leak detection  equip-
ment in accordance with manufacturer's
instructions; and report and investigate a
suspected  release of  regulated  product
(gasoline).

Region 8 Issues SDWA
Proposed Order to BIA
Facilities on Pine Ridge
Reservation
On July 3, 2003, Region 8  (Denver)
issued  a proposed compliance order/pro-
posed order with administrative penalty
pursuant to sections  1423 and  1447 of
the Safe Drinking Water  Act  (SDWA).
The  Order,  alleging  violations of the
SDWA Underground  Injection  Control
(UIC) requirements for  Class  V wells,
was  issued  to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), Pine Ridge Road Shop and
Kyle Road  Shop facilities  on the Pine
Ridge  Indian  Reservation in  South
Dakota. The Order  may  be the first
instance  of   a   combined  penalty
order/compliance order under the SDWA
UIC  program issued to a federal facility.
The order proposed a penalty of $28,691
for UIC violations including failure to
permit or discontinue the well, failure to
timely submit a permit application or
requested  information,  and failure to
close  or  retrofit  the  well to  prevent
underground source of drinking water
(USDW) contamination.  The Order also
requires, within 30 days,  submittal of
closure plans for the  Class  V  wells or
submittal of a completed permit applica-
tion  for continued use of the existing
Class V well/disposal system.


FFEO  Issues Policy on Listing
Mixed Ownership  Mine or Mill
Sites
EPA's  Federal Facility  Enforcement
Office  issued its  policy Listing Mixed
Ownership Mine or Mill Sites Created
as a Result of the General Mining Law of
1872 on the Federal Agency Hazardous
Waste Compliance Docket on June  24,
2003. The Policy states  that mixed own-
ership  mine or mill  sites created as a
result  of  the General  Mining Law of
1872 generally should  not be included
on the  published list  of federal facilities
which have been  reported to the CER-
CLA 120(c) Federal Agency Hazardous
Waste Compliance Docket (Docket). The
Policy  recognizes  that  individual mine
or mill sites should  be evaluated on a
case-by-case basis, and that such sites
should be considered for inclusion in
EPA's CERCLIS  database. The  policy
can  be found  at: http://www.epa.gov/
compliance/resources/policies/cleanup/
federal/policymixownrshpmine.pdf
  FEDFACSONTHEWEB
  This and  past issues of FedFacs can be
  found on EPA's website at: http://www.epa.
  gov/compliance/resources/newsletters/
  civil/fedfac/index.html
Editor's Note:
In the Summer 2003 issue, some informa-
tion  was inadvertently omitted.  In our
story  on EPA Region 4's  "CWA/SPCC
Compliance Assurance Initiative for Fed-
eral Facilities," those wishing to find out
more  about  the  initiative can contact:
Tony Shelton at (404) 562-9636. In our
article "EPA  Sponsored Environmental
Management System Workshops,"Denver
should have been among the cities where
training has been given.
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                                                                                                   In  Brief
EMRs  at  Texas  FBOP/FMC  and
VA Medical Center — U.S. EPA Region
6 (Dallas) conducted environmental man-
agement reviews (EMRs) at the Federal
Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) Federal Med-
ical Center (FMC), Fort Worth, and the
Veterans Administration Medical Center
(VAMC) in Dallas. The EMRs examined
each facility's environmental programs
and  management system to  determine
the extent protection programs and plans
have been developed and implemented.
The Dallas VAMC is one of 17 VA medical
centers selected by the Department of
Veterans Affairs Health Administration
to participate in a cooperative partner-
ship in which EPA conducts EMRs to help
improve facility compliance.
   EPA staff worked with each facility to
design the parameters  and scope of the
review prior to its visit.  Reviews included
an in-brief by the EPA team, a tour, inter-
views  with  appropriate staff  from  top
management to staff level, and an out-
brief. Both reviews were well received by
the facilities. FBOP has requested fur-
ther  assistance from EPA Region  6 in
designing its environmental  manage-
ment  system.  A draft  report  of  the
recently conducted  VAMC EMR is  in
review by the EPA Region 6 EMR team.
EPA Region 6 will also  conduct EMRs in
2004 at VA  medical centers in Temple,
Texas and the U.S. Army Camp Stanley
Storage Facility in Boerne, Texas.

The  DoD Environmental Data Qual-
ity Workgroup and Intergovernmen-
tal Data  Quality Task Force jointly
sponsored an invitational roundtable on
the "Analysis of Perchlorate in Environ-
mental Samples" on 23 October 2003, in
Dallas, Texas. This  roundtable enabled
government  and private sector experts
(chemists) to examine problems/limita-
tions with current perchlorate  sampling
and testing  methods,  discuss  emerging
technology, and recommend  a  path  for-
ward for developing, validating and pro-
mulgating    (e.g.,   through   SW-846)
improved,  performance-based perchlo-
rate sampling and analysis methods. Par-
ticipants  included  USAGE,  NAVFAC,
AFCEE, AFIOH , EPA/ORD, EPA/OSW,
EPA Regional  staff,  state  regulatory
agencies,  academia, and private  labs.
More information  can  be  found at:
http://www.epa.gov/swerffrr/recent
additions.htm.

Environmentally  Preferable  Pur-
chasing (EPP) Vendor Fair — For the
third consecutive year, U.S. EPA Region I
(Boston)  organized  a  session entitled
"Federal Focus  on EPP" at the Massa-
chusetts 9th Annual Buy Recycled and
EPP Vendor Fair  and Conference  in
Worcester, Mass. (October 8, 2003). Tai-
lored for federal purchasing and facility
staff, the session discussed EPA's Federal
Facilities  Program, described environ-
mental management systems (EMS), and
explained  how  Environmental Manage-
ment Reviews  (EMRs)  can prepare  a
facility to implement an EMS. A follow-up
presentation explained how  to incorpo-
rate EPP into an EMS. The session also
presented  an on-line purchasing system
that tracks recycled  content purchases (a
requirement under RCRA section 6002),
and provided tips on selecting a recycling
service for obsolete electronics.  The EPP
Vendor Fair featured approximately 100
exhibitors  of  "green" products and ser-
vices. Over 800  attendees from universi-
ties, hospitals, and government agencies
participated in the conference, making it
the largest, longest  running event of its
kind in the nation.

Government Senior Manager  EMS
Training — U.S. EPA Region 6 (Dallas)
Federal Facilities Program sponsored two
separate  environmental management
system (EMS) training for senior federal
leaders in  the  Dallas/Fort Worth area.
The training  informed managers  about
EMS requirements and strategies at fed-
eral agencies. The first two-hour session
was held September 15, 2003 at the Fed-
eral Bureau of Prisons Medical Center in
Fort Worth,  and was attended by  35
senior  managers from  several federal
agencies. The second session was  held
September  29, 2003 during the monthly
Dallas/Fort Worth  Federal Executive
Board meeting,  and was attended by 29
federal executives from 23 different agen-
cies  and bureaus. Dr.  Gary Chiles of
MWH, Inc.  conducted both sessions.

U.S. EPA Regions 5 and  7 Sponsors
EMS Workshop — On August 5-7, 2003,
EPA Regions  5  (Chicago) and 7  (Kansas
City)  hosted  "Designing Your  EMS: A
Federal Facility Workshop" at the Region
7 Offices in Kansas City, Kan. Over 100
federal facility representatives from  vari-
ous agencies attended. Workshop partici-
pants learned basic ISO 14001 elements
of an environmental management system
(EMS), and the steps needed to imple-
ment an EMS  at their facilities.  The
workshop included a panel of several fed-
eral facility representatives who shared
their EMS implementation  experiences
at their facilities. David Coughey, Depart-
ment of Energy's Kansas City, Mo. Plant,
outlined the EMS implementation time-
line, resource commitment,  benefits and
lessons  learned  during  certification.
Steven Coyle,  Robins Air  Force  Base
(RAFB),  Ga.,  explained  the  RAFB
methodology  for  continuous   process
improvement including how they started,
identified RAFB environmental  aspects,
and lessons they learned. Robert Lallier,
NASA Glenn Research Center Plum
Brook Station, Ohio, spoke about NASA's
implementation philosophy of integrating
the pre-existing ISO 9001 Business Man-
agement  System with the  ISO 14001
EMS system. He explained  the process
for achieving their ISO 14001  registra-
tion and  identified the facility's expected
benefits and lessons learned.
   During the workshop's breakout ses-
sion, agencies were grouped together by
similar mission/facility functions and dis-
cussed  where   they Continued on page 27
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Federal Agency  Compliance
Tracking  System (FACTS)
http://www.epa.gov/idea/fedfac

   The U.S.  Environmental  Protection
   Agency's  Federal  Facilities  Enforce-
ment Office (FFEO) released the final ver-
sion of the Federal Agency Compliance
Tracking System (FACTS) on December 1,
2003. FACTS, formerly known as the On-
line Environmental  Compliance Status
Report (ECSR), enables users to research,
track  and monitor  the environmental
compliance history and current status of
individual regulated federal facilities from
a single access point. Now EPA employees,
registered federal, state, local and tribal
government agencies  can view and ana-
lyze inspection, enforcement and compli-
ance data in EPA's national database sys-
tems,  and query data by federal agency,
EPA region and state. FACTS was first
released as a pilot version on November
30, 2002. Comments received during the
pilot period led to enhancements in the
new version, including the capability  to
search for compliance and enforcement
information for  a single facility,  entire
agency,  or other federal government
entity.
   FACTS is available as a  partnership
site on EPA's Online  Tracking Informa-
tion System (OTIS), a web-based infor-
mation system providing facility-specific
information on inspections, enforcement
and compliance data. To use OTIS and/or
FACTS, a one time user registration is
required; no username or password is
necessary.  Non-registered  users  can
obtain instructions  and  register at:
http://www.epa.gov/idea/otis/register by
selecting  the link:  Obtaining  Gov't
Access/Registering for  OTIS. To  visit
FACTS,   go   to:  http://www.epa.gov
/idea/fedfac.
   Further instructions  for  using the
new FACTS can be found in the link:
"About this Search Tool" located at the
top of the home  page. If you have any
questions  or  comments  about  FACTS,
please e-mail Richard  Satterfield at:
satterfield. richard@epa.gov.  Questions
or comments  pertaining to  OTIS or
access problems during  registration
should be directed to Rebecca Kane at:
kane.rebecca@epa.gov.
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were  in  the EMS process,  problems
encountered and solutions. This session
allowed agencies to share information
with their counterparts and develop a
network  to  address  issues and  share
information in the future.
   Immediately following the workshop,
Martin Elliott, from the Army Office of
the Director of Environmental Pro-
grams, provided Army personnel with
updated guidance on implementing ISO
14001. Please forward  suggestions  or
comments  for  future  conferences  or
workshops to Diana Jackson,  Region 7,
(913)  551-7744, jackson.diana@epa.gov
or Lee Regner, Region 5, (312) 353-6478,
regner.lee@epa.gov.
Greening the  Government Confer-
ence - U.S. EPA Regions I, II, and III
and the Northeast Waste Management
Officials (NEWMOA) sponsored the first
comprehensive  Greening the Govern-
ment Conference on June 4-6, 2003 at
the Rittenhouse Sheraton  Hotel  in
Philadelphia (a green seal of approval
hotel).  The conference included topics
such as: energy and water conservation,
beneficial  landscaping,  and  "green"
building design, procurement, meetings,
cleaning  products,   and  cafeterias.
Speakers were  affiliated with federal
agencies, states, academia, public inter-
est organizations, private  companies
and consultants. Bill McDonough, inter-
nationally  known designer,  architect
  COMPLIANCE
  ASSISTANCE CENTER
  DEVELOPMENT
  CONTINUES
  EPA's Federal Facilities Enforcement Office
  (FFEO) continues to develop an enhanced
  web-based  Environmental Stewardship
  and Compliance Assistance Center for fed-
  eral  facilities.  The  existing compliance
  assistance center, FedSite (http://www.
  epa.gov/fedsite) will be expanded, and all
  federal government compliance assistance
  resources integrated into one, independent
  site eventually  supported and directed by
  member agencies.
    Since late October, FFEO staff has been
  in discussions  focused on the day-to-day
  operation of the expanded Center with rep-
  resentatives of the Army Corps of Engineers
  Construction, Engineering and  Research
  Laboratory (CERL) located in Champaign, III.
  Staff from FFEO and CERL are drafting an
  interagency agreement for operation of the
  enhanced Center. CERL currently manages
  the DoD's environmental web site, DENIX.
  Over the past decade, CERL has performed
  several  federal  facility  environmental
  audits, and  has proven  capabilities and
  detailed knowledge of a variety environ-
  mental compliance issues using web-based
  technologies. The new Center is expected
  to be operational this spring.
    For more information about the Federal
  Facilities Environmental Stewardship and
  Compliance Assistance Center, please con-
  tact Mike Shields at: shields.mike@epa.gov
  or 202-564-9035.
and proponent of the "Next Industrial
Revolution" was the keynote speaker.
Conference  participants  were  given
information and tools to help initiate
"green" practices at their facilities, and
discussed future options for developing
a federal/state  network to share and
promote sustainable  projects and pro-
grams.  There  is  strong  interest  in
designing an Eastern Federal Network
for Sustainability similar to the success-
ful Western  Federal  Network for Sus-
tainability. EPA Regions I and  II will
lead the initial coordination of the East-
ern Network.
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