Executive Order 13148

1. Executive Order 13148 Greening the Government Through Leadership in Environmental Management

2. E.O. Issued: April 21, 2000 Reasons: • Demonstrate Federal Government environmental leadership • Ensure that Federal agencies adopt lowest life-cycle cost environmental practices • Ensure Federal facilities are responsible members of their communities

3. E.O 13148 Supersedes: • E.O. 12843: Procurement Requirements & Policies for Federal Agencies for Ozone-Depleting Substances • E.O. 12856: Federal Compliance With Right-to-Know Laws and Pollution Prevention Requirements • E.O. 12969: Federal Acquisition and Community Right-To-Know • E.O. 12088: Federal Compliance With Pollution Control Standards, section 1–4 • Executive Memorandum on Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping

4. General Requirements Compliance Auditing Environmental Management Systems Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Pollution Prevention Toxic Chemical Release Reductions Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Substance Use Reductions Reductions in Ozone-Depleting Substances Beneficial Landscaping & Environmentally Benign Adhesives What does the E.O. cover?

5. General Requirements • Incorporate the provisions into existing policies • Provide training on the provisions to personnel • Incorporate into position descriptions and performance standards • Develop an awards program • Each location will develop a plan • Annual reporting to the EPA

6. Compliance Auditing • Develop/implement an environmental compliance audit program • Agency’s with an established audit program may elect to do program reviews instead • Encouraged to conduct audits/reviews not less than every 3 years • Place high priority on obtaining funding and resources needed to address recommendations of audits/reviews

7. Environmental Management Systems (EMS) • The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines EMS as “that part of the overall management system which includes organizational structure, planning, implementing, achieving, reviewing, and maintaining the environmental policy.” • Pete says an EMS is “looking at your operations, procedures, and/or systems, with an eye towards continual improvement”

8. Environmental Management Systems (EMS) • Identify deficiencies and improvements and make them. • Repeat the cycle for “continuous improvement” • Deficiencies/improvements - two types to “identify”: • Operational – compliance driven • Procedural/systematic – program driven

9. Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Requirements • Conduct an agency-level EMS self assessment • Implement EMS at all facilities by December 31, 2005

10. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) • Report under the EPCRA sections 302, 304, 311/312, and 313 • Reduced reporting thresholds under section 313 (e.g., mercury reporting threshold reduced from 25,000 lbs to 10 lbs) • EPA may conduct inspections to monitor compliance • Non-compliance may result in a Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement

11. Pollution Prevention (P2) • Use pollution prevention projects and activities to correct and prevent noncompliance with environmental regulatory requirements • Develop a P2 program at locations that compares life cycle costs of treatment/ disposal of waste streams with alternatives that eliminate or reduce toxic chemicals at the source

12. Release Reduction: Toxic Chemicals • Reduce total releases of toxic chemicals to the environment and off-site transfers of chemicals for treatment and disposal by at least 10 percent annually, or 40 percent overall by December 31, 2006 • List of toxic chemicals in EPCRA section 313 as of December 1, 2000

13. Release Reduction: Toxic Chemicals • Previous requirement under E.O. 12856 • Baseline for reporting is calendar year 2001 (i.e., July 2002) • There are provisions where a location is unable to pursue – won’t be an easy sale

14. Use Reduction: Toxic Chemicals, Hazardous Substances, and Other Pollutants • Train procurement and acquisition personnel. • Reduce the use of priority chemicals by 50 percent by December 31, 2006 • EPA workgroup is establishing the list (not finalized yet) • Will include at least 15 chemicals

15. Use Reduction: Toxic Chemicals, Hazardous Substances, and Other Pollutants • Agencies can identify an alternate list if: • Locations don’t have at least 5 chemicals on the list; or • They so choose (i.e., with approval of the EPA workgroup) • Baseline for measuring reductions is the first CY following development of the list

16. Reductions in Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS) • Regarding acquisition, follow the FAR section 23.8 and other applicable provisions • Develop a plan to phase out the procurement of Class I ODS by December 31, 2010

17. Reductions in Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS) Plan will require an inventory of: • Equipment/systems that contain ODS (e.g., refrigeration, air conditioning, halon fire suppression systems) • Types/quantities of ODS used and stored • Types/quantities of ODS procured annually

18. Beneficial Landscaping & Environmentally Benign Adhesives • Incorporate the “Guidance for Presidential Memorandum on Environmentally and Economically Beneficial Landscape Practices on Federal Landscaped Grounds,” (60 Fed. Reg. 40837) into landscaping programs, policies, and practices • Once environmentally benign adhesives for paper products become available, revise specs and direct the purchase of said products

19. Questions?