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**Project Title:** Department of Energy Headquarters Green Team Partners

**Nomination Description:**

**Introduction**

The Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters is proud to be among the
leading federal facilities and agencies implementing electronics
stewardship strategies under the *Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC)
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)*. The DOE Headquarters Electronics
Stewardship Green Team initiates and oversees innovative policies and
cross-cutting programs to address the life-cycle management of
electronics assets. The Green Team has established precedent-setting
policies and procedures for advanced practices among federal agencies,
focusing on the three electronics life-cycle phases: procurement,
operations and maintenance, and surplus (end-of-life) disposition. This
narrative introduces the Green Team Partners; reviews their goals, best
practices, and accomplishments; and outlines future strategies and next
steps for continuous improvement in DOE electronics stewardship
operations.

**Meet the Green Team Partners**

The Green Team consists of four key Headquarters offices which share
responsibility for managing the three electronics stewardship
lifecycles. These Green Team Partners cut across organizational
missions, implement strategies through the DOE Environmental Protection
Program, and apply lessons learned to pursue new initiatives. During
2006, their fruitful collaborations resulted in significant advances,
not only for DOE, but for the entire federal agency community. Together,
these Green Team Partners manage DOE Headquarters electronics
stewardship activities:

-   The Office of Nuclear Safety and Environment (HS-20) is the Green
    Team Lead, with principal responsibility for DOE environmental
    policies and assistance, including overseeing Pollution Prevention
    (P2) programs and data reporting.

-   The Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) oversees
    information technology (IT) activities and policies and directs the
    DOE Common Operating Environment (COE) which plays a lead role in IT
    operations and maintenance as well as procurement.

-   The Property Management Division has responsibility for both
    end-of-life policy (MA-632) and for Headquarters property
    disposition (MA-432).

-   The Office of Procurement and Assistance Policy Office (MA-61) is
    the DOE lead for environmentally preferable purchasing, including
    Green Procurement initiatives.

**The DOE Commitment to Electronic Stewardship Programs and
Initiatives**

After DOE signed the FEC MOU (November 15, 2004), HS-20 representatives
joined the Federal Electronics Stewardship Working Group (FESWG) and
started building the Green Team by reaching out and integrating key
Headquarters elements as Partners. As a result, the DOE CIO and Agency
Environmental Executive (AEE) issued a joint memorandum entitled
*Federal Electronics Challenge* (FEC) to all DOE programs and field
elements on the Department's commitment to improving environmental
management of electronic assets, encouraging all sites and Headquarters
to participate as FEC Partners (June 20, 2005) and join the FEC. The DOE
CIO and AEE issued another joint memorandum (September 12, 2005)
encouraging DOE elements to participate in the Federal Electronics Reuse
and Recycling Challenge (ERRC). As a result, Headquarters signed up.

**Electronics Stewardship Is Integrated Into the DOE *Environmental
Protection Program Order 450.1 Change 2* and the Environmental
Management System (EMS)**

DOE has modernized its *Environmental Protection Program DOE Order
450.1*, to integrate environmental work into the Environmental
Management System (EMS) programs across the entire agency. The new
*Order 450.1, Change 2* establishes Pollution Prevention and Sustainable
Environmental Stewardship goals to be achieved Department-wide. The
Order requires integration of pollution prevention into EMSs and
specifies strategies for achieving the new goals, including:

-   Procurement of environmentally preferable "green" electronics
    through the Electronics Product Environmental Assessment Tool
    (EPEAT).

-   Enabling electronics power management capabilities.

-   Reuse and recycling of surplus (end-of-life) electronics, including
    the utilization of environmentally certified recyclers.

As a result of *Order 450.1 Chg 2,* DOE Headquarters fully incorporated
electronics stewardship targets and tasks into its 2006 EMS, following
the strategies outlined in both the Environmental Preferable Purchasing
Goal and the Sustainable Stewardship Goal.

**Greening Procurement through EPEAT Registration Requirements**

Setting a national precedent for federal agencies, as a Green Team
Partner the DOE CIO adopted EPEAT registration as a procurement
requirement in its FY 2007 annual market survey for Headquarters
electronics (desktop computers, notebook computers, and monitors).
Furthermore, the CIO noted that fiscal year (FY) 2007 notebook computer
procurement would be at the Silver EPEAT level. Additionally, the Green
Team promoted the EPEAT launch and advocates EPEAT training to all DOE
elements.

As a Green Team Partner, the DOE Procurement and Assistance Policy
Office has developed a draft Acquisition Letter (AL) for all DOE
contractor purchasing of environmentally preferable electronics. This
draft AL specifies EPEAT-registered products in DOE acquisition
contracts, in anticipation of FAR Plan approval for EPEAT. This AL is
currently undergoing internal coordination and review for distribution
during the first half of 2007.

**Precedent-Setting Procurement and Reuse Data Collection Requirements**

DOE became the first federal agency to require incorporation of
Department-wide electronics stewardship data (procurement of
EPEAT-registered products and recycling of end-of-life electronics) for
all facilities into DOE's FY 2006 "Greening the Government" Executive
Order 13101 and 13148 progress report. As of January 2007, forty-five
major DOE facilities had complied with this order, including
Headquarters.

**Reducing Energy Consumption, Improving Operations and Maintenance**

> DOE Headquarters received the 2006 FEC Bronze Award for Operations and
> Maintenance.

The CIO and DOE Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) have
implemented best

management practices to reduce energy consumption at Headquarters,
including:

-   After-hours shut down of non-critical electronics and electrical
    equipment in coordination with network security.

-   ENERGY STAR power management features set as network default with
    permission required for modification on an as-needed basis.

-   Energy conservation instructional materials provided to Headquarters
    staff.

**Green Disposition: Reusing CRT Monitors, Winning Recycling Awards,
Helping the Gulf Coast**

In another first for federal facilities, the CIO and Property Management
as Green Team Partners adopted a policy for the universal reuse and life
extension of Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) computer monitors at DOE
Headquarters, extending their lifespan indefinitely. CRT monitors are
now only replaced when their functionality has expired. Under this
policy, more than 800 Headquarters CRT monitors were reused instead of
recycled in 2006.

Headquarters and ten other DOE facilities actively participated in the
2006 federal Electronics Reuse and Recycling Challenge (ERRC), under the
leadership of Property Management and HS-20. Headquarters recycled
almost 20,000 pounds of electronics through a GSA vendor in an
environmentally secure process. As a result of this united effort, DOE
won the first ERRC Agency Award for recycling more than 200,000 pounds,
the most electronics of all participating federal agencies, and about
forty percent of the federal total.

In support of the 2006 ERRC and Hurricane Katrina reconstruction efforts
in Louisiana, the Green Team shipped 100 surplus DOE Headquarters
computer workstations to the Belle Chase Middle Schools in Plaquemine
Parish, in cooperation with the General Services Administration and
Departments of Education and Transportation. The Team used
teleconferences and DOE-wide bulletins to encourage other DOE elements
to do the same. At least five other DOE sites sent surplus electronics
to the Gulf Coast.

**Expanding Headquarters Educational Outreach and Technical Assistance
Programs**

-   The Green Team jointly presented plenary presentations and workshops
    on electronic stewardship, focusing on disposition, to 125 national
    and local DOE property management staff at the 2006 Property
    Management Conference at DOE Headquarters.

-   Electronic stewardship briefings and updates are presented by Team
    members in monthly teleconferences to more than fifty national
    points-of-contact from twenty-five sites.

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-   About 700 high level DOE managers received three Green Team notices
    updating them on electronics stewardship activities, including
    EPEAT, ERRC, and special trainings.

-   The Green Team developed multiple day training modules for on-site
    presentations on the integration of electronics stewardship into
    Environmental Management Systems (EMSs). The first such trainings
    were carried out in 2006 at the Idaho and Brookhaven National
    Laboratories.

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-   Green Team members created a draft on-line Electronics Stewardship
    Reference Tool to communicate the Department's commitment to
    life-cycle environmental management. This compendium of relevant
    policies and implementation strategies, including a case study on
    the integration of electronics stewardship into the Headquarters
    EMS, is currently under review and concurrence prior to distribution
    and posting on-line in early 2007.

-   Multiple Green Team educational meetings on DOE commitments under
    the FEC MOU were held with many Headquarters CIO representatives,
    procurement specialists, and property management personnel during
    2006.

**Helping Shape the Federal Electronics Stewardship Agenda**

The DOE Headquarters Green Team is firmly committed to actively
participate in all national electronic stewardship activities through
the Federal Electronics Challenge and Federal Electronics Stewardship
Working Group (FESWG):

-   DOE Green Team representatives participated in every 2006 FESWG
    meeting and Retreat. They also participated in FEC teleconferences
    and training sessions. DOE Staff were presenters on two
    teleconference panels.

-   Green Team Partners volunteered as beta testers of both the EPEAT
    website and the Environmental Benefits Calculator before they were
    launched.

-   Green Team staff conducted presentations on DOE best practices at
    the annual 2006 *FEC Conference* and the 2006 *Federal Environmental
    Symposium*.

**Looking Ahead to Meet the Challenge: Next Steps for the DOE
Headquarters Green Team**

The Headquarters Green Team has many new initiatives underway in 2007 to
incorporate best-practices, seize performance enhancement opportunities,
and foster continuous improvement in electronics stewardship. These
plans include:

-   Joining seven other DOE facilities (to date) in participating in the
    2007 ERRC.

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-   Applying for the 2007 FEC Silver Award for Procurement and continued
    improvement in Operations and Maintenance activities.

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-   Expanding outreach, education, and assistance programs on the
    integration of electronics stewardship into site EMSs, including
    multiple day workshops at several DOE facilities

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-   Producing a daylong Headquarters televideo workshop on electronics
    stewardship best practices, reaching dozens of pollution prevention,
    information management, procurement and property management
    personnel from more than twenty-five DOE facilities.

-   Finalizing and distributing the Acquisition Letter for DOE
    contractor purchasing of environmentally preferable electronics.

-   Finalizing and posting the on-line Electronics Stewardship Reference
    Tool*,* a compendium of relevant policies and implementation
    strategies.

-   Presenting DOE electronics stewardship best-practices at the *FEC
    Conference* in February 2007 and *Federal Environmental Symposium*
    in June 2007.