Breakout Session # 501 Dana Arnold, Chief of Staff, Office of the Federal Environmental Executive

2. What is Green Purchasing, Anyway? Breakout Session # 501 Dana Arnold, Chief of Staff, Office of the Federal Environmental Executive April 10, 2006 11:00 am NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

3. WHY BUY GREEN? “The Federal government can be a good steward of our resources, and we fully intend to be.” - President George W. Bush NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

4. Why Buy Green? “Early integration of environment, safety, and occupational health considerations into new system designs is the most cost-effective way to avoid performance risks, ensure safety, and reduce the future environmental burden on military installations and their host communities.” - Alex Beehler, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

5. GREEN PURCHASING ENCOMPASSES • Recycled content products • Energy- and water-efficient products • Alternative fuel vehicles/alternative fuels • Biobased products • Environmentally preferable products • Non-ozone depleting substances • Priority chemicals NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

6. Recycled Content Products • Legal basis: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act section 6002, E.O. 13101, E.O. 13148, and E.O. 13149 • What’s required: Purchase EPA-designated recycled content products NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

7. What to Buy Green • Office products • Printing services • Fleet maintenance products • Building construction, renovation, and maintenance (janitorial, landscaping) products • Traffic control devices • Parks and recreation products NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

8. Cool Stuff • Homestead Air Reserve Base created an Environmentally Friendly Products Section at the base supply store. • Sandia National Labs added green contract language to the template for all construction contracts. This template is used by all project managers when requesting proposals from new contractors and developing work scope for pre- approved contractors. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

9. Cool Stuff • EPA entered into a blanket purchase agreement with Corporate Express to supply recycled content and environmentally preferable office products. • A Fish and Wildlife Service region provided seed money for individual facilities to purchase re-refined oil. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

10. Cool Stuff • NASA’s copier leases include supplying recycled content paper. • The Pentagon uses recycled content and environmentally preferable products in its renovation project. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

11. Where to Find More Information www.epa.gov/cpg NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

12. Energy Star, Energy-efficient Products, and Vampires • Legal basis: Energy Policy Act, E.O. 13123, E.O. 13221 • What’s required: Reduce building energy use, purchase Energy Star and FEMP- recommended products, purchase products that use minimal standby power, purchase electricity from renewable sources NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

13. What to Buy Green • Electronic office products • Low standby power devices • Building construction products • Appliances (residential and commercial) • Lighting • Water-saving products NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

14. Renewable Energy Portfolio When economically feasible and technically practicable, Federal government is to use renewable energy from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, waves, geothermal, MSW, or new or expanded hydro sources: • FY 2007 – 2009 – not less than 3% • FY 2010 – 2012 – not less than 5% • FY 2013 and after – not less than 7.5% NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

15. Cool Stuff • By FY 2003, Federal agencies reduced their energy intensity by 25% compared to the 1985 baseline. • They purchased 552 gigawatt hours of electricity generated from renewable resources. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

16. Cool Stuff • Dyess Air Force Base uses 100% renewable power – using wind power. • Five EPA laboratories purchase 100% renewable energy. Green power also is used in other EPA buildings, including the headquarters complex. • Federal agencies installed more than 3,000 solar energy systems by the end of 2003. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

17. Where to Find More Information www.eere.doe.gov/femp/technologies/eeproducts.cfm www.energystar.gov NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

18. Alternative Fuel Vehicles • Legal basis: Energy Policy Act, E.O. 13149 • What’s required: Purchase alternative fuel vehicles and alternative fuels, and reduce fleet petroleum consumption NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

19. What to Buy Green • Alternative fuels • Ethanol • Biodiesel • LNG • CNG • Propane • Electric NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

20. Cool Stuff • In FY 2003, alternative fuel vehicles accounted for 86% of covered light-duty vehicle acquisitions – well above our 75% requirement. • We buy ethanol, biodiesel, CNG, and LNG, and use hybrids and other electric vehicles. • Naval Base Ventura County recycles used cooking oil into biodiesel. • Both Army and Marine Corps using hybrid HUMVEEs. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

21. Where to Find More Information www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/epact/ NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

22. Biobased Products • Legal basis: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 section 9002, E.O. 13101, E.O. 13134 • What’s required: Purchase USDA-designated biobased products NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

23. What to Buy Green • USDA’s initial designations: • Mobile equipment hydraulic fluids (excluding combat, combat-related, and space-related applications) • Roof coatings • Water tank coatings* • Diesel fuel additives (excluding combat, combat-related, and space-related applications) • Penetrating lubricants (excluding combat, combat-related, and space-related applications) • Bedding, bed linens, towels* *Deferred until there are multiple sources NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

24. What to Buy Green • Cleaning products • Facility cleaning • Laundry • Personal care • Construction products • Lubricants • Stationary equipment hydraulic fluids • 2 cycle engine oils • Greases • Metal working fluids • Cafeteriaware NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

25. Cool Stuff • Seymour Johnson AFB looked for biobased floor scrubbers to help its local wastewater treatment plant reduce phosphate concentrations and pH levels. • Commercial floor scrubbers • Goal: Formulate a biobased detergent low in phosphates, pH neutral, aggressive in cleaning, and competitively priced • Able to meet needs for cleaning golf cart facilities, supply warehouse, and aircraft hangar. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

26. Cool Stuff • Pope AFB looked for cleaners for the Aerospace Ground Equipment and Propulsion shops that were lower pH but compatible with oil/water separators. • Goals: lower pH, solvent-free, left floors meeting safety requirements. • Focused on biobased enzymatic products. • Used for shop spills of hydraulic fluids, engine oil – and incidently, cleaned oils in the floor scrubbing equipment. • Cost per gallon of 90 cents! NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

27. Cool Stuff • The Army Southeast Region Installation Management Office conducted a successful pilot study of biobased cafeteriaware. • They serve 34-70 million meals annually. • They want to switch to biobased, biodegradable cafeteriaware so they can compost rather than continue to dispose of waste in landfills. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

28. Cool Stuff • Many Federal facilities now use biobased hydraulic oils, greases, cleaning products, mastic removers, and other products. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

29. Where to Find More Information USDA: http://www.biobased.oce.usda.gov OFEE: www.ofee.gov,click on Green Purchasing, click on Biobased Products NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

30. Environmentally Preferable Products • Legal basis: E.O. 13101 • What’s encouraged: Purchase environmentally preferable products and services NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

31. What to Buy Green • Office products • Electronic office equipment • Printing services • Fleet maintenance products • Building renovation, construction, and maintenance (janitorial, landscaping) products NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

32. Cool Stuff • Department of the Interior led the way in switching to green cleaning products and now uses a NISH provider to clean with green cleaners. • NISH providers also clean the Pentagon and other Federal buildings with green cleaners. Even Statue of Liberty National Park is cleaned with green cleaners. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

33. Cool Stuff • Hill Air Force Base is using a chrome-free conversion coating in place of the hexavalent chromium chemical usually used. • Use on F-16, A-10, C-130, T-37, and T-38 aircraft NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

34. Where to Find More Information www.epa.gov/epp NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

35. Lessons Learned • A law or policy isn’t enough. Buying green needs to be incorporated into: • Individual agency policies and procedures • Purchasing regulations • Solicitation and contract templates or clauses • Contracting forecasts NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

36. Lessons Learned • Educate, educate, educate. • As procurement techniques change, green purchasing has to change: • Purchase cards • Support services contracts • Performance based contracting • Buying green is consistent with mission. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

37. Lessons Learned • Buying green also is consistent with buying from: • Small, minority, and women-owned businesses • The blind, severely handicapped, and prison sources NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

38. Lessons Learned • Buying green is consistent with buying commercial products and buying from commercial sources. NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

39. Lessons Learned • It is easier to “sell” the buy-green concept when the agencies can see a tangible benefit, rather than a benefit to the nation. • Reduced energy bills • Safer environment for workers • It is hard to promote green purchasing when we don’t have the infrastructure. • Fueling stations for alternative fuels • Data collection systems NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management

40. For More Information Dana Arnold Chief of Staff, OFEE arnold.dana@ofee.gov 202-343-9374 www.ofee.gov NCMA World Congress 2006 : Achieving High Performance in Global Business: Leadership, Outsourcing, & Risk Management