Washington, DC - 1310 L Street

Photo of EPA's Headquarters Office at 1310 L Street

This facility features the following green attributes:
Green Power

One of EPA's Headquarters Facilities

Total Facility Area: 135,901 rentable square feet (EPA share)
Estimated Personnel: not available
Energy Consumption: 14,758,063,992 Btu per year
Btu per Gross Square Foot per Year: 108,594
Water Consumption: not available

All energy and water data are reported as of FY 2007.

Description

EPA Headquarters occupies space in the building at 1310 L Street, NW. This building houses employees in the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), including OAR's ENERGY STAR^® program.

In addition to this facility, EPA Headquarters occupies space in several other buildings in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, including:

Environmental Features

Green Power

In June 2006, EPA worked with the Defense Energy Support Center to procure a green power contract with 3 Phases Energy Services for 110 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in renewable energy certificates (RECs), or “green tags.” With deliveries beginning September 1, 2006, this blanket purchase offsets 100 percent of annual electricity use at the Headquarters office and several other facilities through FY 2007 by supporting wind power generation in California, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
In April 2006, EPA replaced the green power contract for its offices in the 1310 L Street building in Washington, DC. The replacement contract (covering the same three-year period as the original contract—June 1, 2004 through May 31, 2007) provided more than 4.5 million kWh per year of green power in the form of RECs. This purchase, which offset 100 percent of the facility's electricity needs, supported the generation of green power at several wind farms in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Alternative Transportation

In FY 2005, 84 percent of Headquarters' new fleet acquisitions were alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs). Since 2000, EPA has exceeded the requirements of Executive Order 13149, which calls for at least 75 percent of new vehicle acquisitions to be AFVs.

For More Information

Yvette Jackson (jackson.yvette@epa.gov)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: (202) 564-7231