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EO 13514 |
On October 5, 2009, President Obama signed Executive Order (EO) 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance. This EO requires all federal agencies to “develop, implement, and annually update an integrated Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan.”
As part of these Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans, over the next decade, all federal agencies must:
PRIZIM is prepared to help federal agencies overcome any challenges faced when implementing sustainability plans. Whether you are overwhelmed by the multitude of requirements or possess limited resources, PRIZIM offers the expertise to assure you achieve the EO standards.
The PRIZIM EO 13514 Promise
Unmatchable expertise: We wrote the book on environmental management. Senior members of the PRIZIM organization were instrumental in shaping the fields of environmental consulting and sustainability. Founder and president, Frank Priznar and senior principal, Dennis Sasseville helped develop the environmental auditing profession in the early 1980s. Priznar served as Chair of ASTM’s Committee on Environmental Auditing and Environmental Management Systems (EMS), directed the development of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Small Business Source Book on Environmental Auditing” and helped develop draft and final policy on environmental auditing for the Department of the Interior which was published as DM 515 Ch 2. Since 1994, Sasseville has served on the international committee ISO/TC 207– the group that developed the ISO 14001 EMS standards used today throughout federal and state agencies. Both served on the founding committee of the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management that developed the widely-recognized Certified Hazardous Materials Manager credential.
Most PRIZIM employees have graduate degrees in disciplines such as planning, environmental policy and management, environmental science, environmental law, safety and emergency planning, and business management. Professional certifications and credentials held by PRIZIM’s staff members include:
Throughout the past five years alone, PRIZIM staff directed or participated in more than 1000 environmental assignments for federal clients. These assignments involved more than 1 billion acres of land in nearly all U.S. states and territories, addressed virtually every federal environmental and safety regulation, and encompassed Executive Order 13148 Greening the Government Through Leadership in Environmental Management, EO 13423 Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management and now EO 13514 Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance.
High rated customer service. If you choose PRIZIM for your EO 13514 service needs chances are you will be highly satisfied. Each year PRIZIM hires a third party consultant to survey our customers’ levels of satisfaction. In 2009, 100 percent of PRIZIM customers surveyed said we exceeded or significantly exceeded expectations for quality of service. More than two-thirds said we significantly exceeded service expectations. Similarly, 93.8 percent of customers surveyed said our quality of work exceeded or significantly exceeded expectations and no customers said we failed to meet expectations.
As a small business, PRIZIM understands the value of personalized service. PRIZIM is dedicated to serving its clients’ best interests – we see beyond the dollar sign to the positive impact a business can have on society. When PRIZIM forms a relationship with a client, we intend to maintain and support this relationship for life.
“Our goal is to be in a position where our clients feel like they can come to us first for anything and if we can’t help, then we’ll find someone who can,” –said principal, Amy Borman.
Versatility: Diverse service offerings and the skill set to complete all of your environmental management needs. PRIZIM is well-versed in helping federal agencies simplify and streamline their environmental management responsibilities. We helped multiple government agencies develop EMSs and also help organizations integrate new compliance requirements into existing EMSs. To help you achieve maximum resource and cost efficiencies, PRIZIM can incorporate EO 13514 requirements such as the Strategic Sustainability Performance plan into an EMS framework.
What PRIZIM Can Do For You
For more than 14 years, PRIZIM has provided industry-leading EMS and sustainability solutions to federal agencies. We work behind the scenes to help our clients succeed, and we take pride in watching them receive the credit they deserve.
Depth of Experience
Specifically, PRIZIM has experience addressing all EO 13514 requirements in the following capacities:
Greenhouse Gas Emissions & and Energy Efficiency (Executive Order Goals a, b, c)
EO Targets:
PRIZIM Expertise:
PRIZIM experts will work with your agency to conduct a GHG inventory, define realistic reduction goals,
identify cost-effective reduction opportunities, and provide ongoing support to implement action plans.
GHG Inventories and Action Plans - You can be confident in our numbers.
We have experience with all international GHG accounting protocols including the World Resources Institute’s Public Sector GHG Accounting and Reporting Protocol and the EPA Climate Leaders programs and our team includes a CSA America Certified Greenhouse Gas Verifier (GHG-V). PRIZIM’s methods ensure accurate, reliable, and consistent data reporting year after year. We also monitor new developments closely to ensure you are always using the best-available protocols.
Collectively, PRIZIM GHG experts have conducted GHG inventories at more than 2,500 sites. PRIZIM conducted the FY2007 GHG inventory at the country’s largest national forest. A PRIZIM team member also created PARCMAN, an Excel-based calculation tool for GHG management in national parks.
Energy Efficiency and Emissions Reductions - We provide thorough analysis.
We understand the realities of limited budgets and resources. When it comes to energy efficiency, we will identify the technical solutions and behavioral changes that give you the largest environmental and financial returns on your investment.
PRIZIM staff members conducted energy audits at a variety of federal facilities including national parks and the country’s largest national forest. The audit of the nearly 17-million acre national forest encompassed measuring energy use in both populated areas with lodging and office buildings as well as isolated facilities that auditors could only reach by float planes. Auditors evaluated existing energy use at the facilities and indentified cost-effective and environmentally preferable measures to decrease this use. The audit reports were designed to provide the facilities with a path to integrate energy efficiency efforts into existing EMSs.
Beyond Efficiency - PRIZIM’s expertise extends beyond number crunching.
When it comes to GHG emissions numbers aren’t the only thing that matters. Employee engagement and understanding is a crucial part of any successful GHG emission reduction plan. If you need staff training on GHG emissions reduction strategies, we will gladly provide it. If you need to establish a management framework, we will engage stakeholders and map the path toward success.
Water Efficiency & Management (Executive Order Goal d)
EO Targets:
PRIZIM Expertise:
PRIZIM staff will help your agency reduce water use and achieve EO 13514 goals by identifying and implementing:
PRIZIM staff members conduct nearly 100 water and wastewater surveys at federal facilities each year. PRIZIM staff members identify cost-effective solutions to decrease water use.
PRIZIM staff members successfully implemented stormwater management plans for multiple agencies, and our in-house expertise ensures your project will be completed on-time and on-budget. Stormwater plans were completed for a variety of facilities such as marinas, maintenance areas, and an assortment of national park facilities. Facilities for which plans were developed ranged in size from one acre to more than 300 acres. Our dedicated staff is familiar with necessary regulations and has the management tools to ensure compliance is quickly achieved
Pollution & Waste Prevention (Executive Order Goal e)
EO Targets:
PRIZIM Expertise:
PRIZIM staff members developed solid waste management, operating, and reduction plans. Plans were developed for facilities with unique circumstances due to their rural locations, harsh climates and diverse waste streams. Facility types and locations for which plans were developed included Alaska, national beaches, maintenance areas, and areas with food service activity among others. PRIZIM staff developed solid waste management manuals for clients, literally “writing the book,” for how waste diversion programs can be run.
Our compliance consultants are experts with in-depth knowledge of all environmental laws and statutes, including the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
From biological laboratories to prisons, PRIZIM’s expertise helped federal agencies with hazardous and universal waste compliance, construction and demolition debris, used oil management, refrigerant waste management, and minimizing the purchase of hazardous materials.
Beyond compliance, PRIZIM staff members develop creative, waste reduction action plans. We know waste diversion is about more than just recycling bins. It’s about behavioral change. That is why we offer targeted communications plans and innovative training programs that encourage stakeholder involvement in the process.
High Performance Sustainable Buildings & Integrated Planning Solutions (Executive Order Goals f, g)
EO Targets:
PRIZIM Expertise:
PRIZIM works extensively with its business partners to provide integrated planning and implementation for sustainable buildings and communities.
Many components of EO 13415, including goals f and g, require the application of a number of skill sets in a coordinated fashion. PRIZIM commonly assembles teams of competent and responsive professionals—architects, energy managers, facility engineers, cost estimators, and NEPA specialists—to supplement our own in-house resources. We provide the program/project management function to assure that these various components work together to achieve our client’s objectives.
Green Purchasing & Electronics Stewardship (Executive Order Goals h, i)
EO Targets:
PRIZIM Expertise:
PRIZIM has provided green procurement training to Federal agencies to meet the requirements of EO 13423 and now EO 13514. We provide expertise specifically for the product standards outlined in the EO:
Our teams provide training and guidance directly to contracting officers to help them successfully:
PRIZIM’s previous green procurement trainings include work with the Department of Interior University. In 2009, PRIZIM provided training to approximately 100 contracting officers who work for a number of federal agencies and bureaus. PRIZIM’s existing body of knowledge and resources can be quickly and easily adapted to suit the specific needs and challenges of any operation, large or small. Our green procurement training materials can be presented in a variety of formats. We can conduct a short, one-hour training or up to a four-day-long course. We can also integrate hands on workshops, where we will sit down with you to develop a customized green procurement strategy and indentify environmentally preferable products that are appropriate for your operations.
Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans & Environmental Management Systems (EMS) (Executive Order Goal j)
EO Targets:
PRIZIM Expertise:
PRIZIM’s expertise with EMS is unparalleled. We know an EMS approach is the easiest way to integrate Executive Order and federal agency requirements in a manner that supports the mission of the organization and streamlines environmental activities. In short, an EMS is the best way for a resource-strained agency to achieve “more with less.”
Through workshops and hands-on assistance PRIZIM assisted several federal and state agencies in developing EMS frameworks. Since 2003, PRIZIM has worked with one federal bureau to support the design, development, and implementation of a Service-wide EMS for all of its research and administrative facilities. In 2007, PRIZIM was awarded a five-year contract with this bureau to provide EMS and regulatory compliance audits of the sustainability goals embodied in Executive Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management. The audit program is also designed to provide hands-on auditor training to the bureau’s Regional Environmental Coordinators to help them become proficient in the techniques of EMS auditing.
PRIZIM is currently assisting another federal bureau with climate change workshops, training park-level staff on GHG management and adaptation, and incorporating their GHG goals into parks’ EMSs.
PRIZIM has integrated GHG management requirements under Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance with existing environmental compliance initiatives.
With our experience, PRIZIM can help your agency develop and implement an EMS that will demonstrate environmental leadership and foster continuity.
Our staff will help your agency develop and implement a working-EMS by:
Matrix of EO 13514 Goals
Topic |
EO 13514 Goal (from Sec. 2) |
What is Required |
Deadline |
Set scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduction target |
Goal a |
Establish and report an absolute percentage reduction goal for scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions for FY 2020 (relative to FY 2008 baseline) |
January 4, 2010 |
Set scope 3 GHG emissions reduction target |
Goal b |
Establish and report an absolute percentage reduction goal for scope 3 GHG emissions for FY 2020 (relative to FY 2008 baseline) |
June 2, 2010 |
Report annual scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions annual reporting |
Goal c |
Establish and report an annual inventory of scope 1, 2, and 3 absolute GHG emissions |
First submission due January 5, 2011; Annual reports due every January thereafter |
Improve water use efficiency and management |
Goal d |
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Annual reductions; Final deadlines in FY 2020 |
Promote pollution prevention and eliminate waste |
Goal e |
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Final deadlines in FY 2015 |
Advance regional and local integrated planning |
Goal f |
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Ongoing (No deadline specified) |
Implement high performance sustainable federal building design, construction, operation and management, maintenance, and deconstruction |
Goal g |
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Advance sustainable acquisitions |
Goal h |
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Ongoing (No deadline specified) |
Promote electronics stewardship |
Goal i |
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Ongoing (No deadline specified) |
Sustainable environmental management |
Goal j |
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Ongoing (No deadline specified) |
Contact PRIZIM
For more information about PRIZIM’s EO 13514 services, please contact:
Matthew Holtry, Senior Consultant: mholtry@prizim-inc.com or (301) 840-2222 x181
Dennis Sasseville, Senior Principal: dsasseville@prizim-inc.com or (301) 840-2222 x118
We believe every solution should be catered to your specific needs, and we look forward to having a conversation about how we can serve you.