ELECTRONICS STEWARDSHIP
Electronics Stewardship at DOE
DOE is committed to responsible environmental
stewardship of its electronic assets. In order
to comply with Executive
Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental,
Energy, and Transportation Management,
DOE policy and actions support the following
principles of electronic stewardship:
- Procurement of environmentally preferable
electronics
- Enable electronics power management capabilities
- Establish and implement policies to extend
the useful life of agency electronic equipment,
and
- Recycling of surplus (end-of-life) electronics
As a signatory to the Memorandum
of Understanding on Promoting Sustainable Environmental
Stewardship of Federal Electronic Assets,
DOE has embedded electronics stewardship principles
into DOE
Order 450.1, Environmental Protection Program.
This order establishes new Pollution Prevention
and Sustainable Environmental Stewardship goals,
and incorporates strategies for achieving the
new goals. DOE electronics stewardship policies,
practices, and successes are summarized in this
October 2008 Information
Brief, Implementing Electronics Stewardship
at Department of Energy Facilities.
For more information about the electronics
stewardship at DOE, contact Jeff Eagan (jeff.eagan@eh.doe.gov
or 202-586-4598).
QUICK LINKS
TOOLS AND INFORMATION
Join the Federal Electronics
Challenge: The Federal government is the world's
largest consumer of electronics, purchasing more
than $60 billion worth of computers, monitors,
cell phones, and other information technology
equipment. DOE is committed to responsible environmental
stewardship of its electronic assets, and has
demonstrated leadership in this area through its
efforts in electronics recycling and reuse and
its participation in the Federal Electronics Challenge
(FEC), sponsored by the Office of the Federal
Environmental Executive. For more information,
visit www.federalelectronicschallenge.net
Under EO 13423, each agency and its facilities
shall choose either to become a partner in the
Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC), or to implement
an equivalent electronics stewardship program
that addresses purchase, operation and maintenance,
and end-of-life management strategies for electronic
assets consistent with FEC's recommended practices
and guidelines.
DOE CIO, in a June
2005 memorandum, strongly encourages our
sites and facilities to become Partners in the
FEC. FEC Partners have access to valuable training
and support as well as eligibility for annual
awards.
EPEAT — A Green Computer Procurement
Tool
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment
Tool (EPEAT) will help purchasers evaluate,
compare, and select desktop and laptop computers
and monitors for their "green" attributes. The
EPA created this procurement tool with a 43
point environmental scale for the environmentally
preferable purchasing of electronics through
the new IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers) Standard 1680, as described at www.epeat.net.
DOE-HQ was the first federal facility to require
that all desktop computers, monitors, and laptops
must be EPEAT registered. During Fiscal Year
2006, DOE field sites purchased more than 10,000
EPEAT certified computers and monitors.
DOE
Acquisition Letter regarding EPEAT (4/27/07)
- This AL establishes a preference for purchasing
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment
Tool-registered computer products within the
Department of Energy while a pending FAR Case
2006-030 is processing which will add the same
purchasing preference to the FAR.
Power Management Strategies
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.
Documents and Links
DOE Electronics Stewardship Plan: The Plan addresses the management of the Department’s electronic assets throughout their life-cycle by focusing on: (1) purchasing of “green” electronic products; (2) reducing the environmental impacts of electronic products; and (3) managing obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe manner.
Information
Brief: Implementing Electronics Stewardship
at DOE Facilities (October 2008): This one-stop
compendium of electronics stewardship information-including
orders, regulations, and best practices-provides
easy access to information for designing and
implementing electronics stewardship programs
at DOE-owned and contractor-operated facilities.
Federal
Electronics Challenge Memo
June 2005 Memorandum from the Chief Information
Officer (CIO) and the Agency Environmental Executive
to Operations and Field Office Managers on the
Department's commitment to the "Federal Electronics
Challenge" (FEC)
Federal
Electronics Challenge (FEC) homepage
EPA
Article on DOE Order 450.1
DOE Success Stories
DOE
Electronics Stewardship Presentation (May 2007)
Sandia National
Laboratories (June 2007)
Idaho National Laboratory
(February 2007)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2007 White House Closing the Circle Awards
for Electronics Stewardship
From Left: Deputy Director of Health, Safety
and Security Michael Kilpatrick, Property Management Specialist Daniel Young, Federal Environmental Executive Ed Pinero, Electronics Stewardship Coordinator Jeff Eagan, and Director of Procurement and Assistance Management Ed Simpson.
DOE received the first ever "CTC Electronics
Stewardship Award" for the Headquarters
Green Team Electronics Partners, which purchased
more than 10,000 'green computers' in the past
two years. DOE also received recognition for
implementing Energy Star efficiency procedures
to save hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours;
and safely recycling more than 1.2 million pounds
of end-of-life electronics over the past two
years, including donations of hundreds of surplus
computer workstations to New Orleans area schools.
[Read
more…]
DOE Wins Electronics Reuse and Recycling
Campaign (ERRC)
The Office of the Federal
Environmental Executive challenges federal agencies
to donate and recycle excess or surplus electronics
through the Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign
(ERRC). For the second year in a row, DOE won
the 2007 ERRC Agency Award, outpacing 14 other
federal agencies. Eighteen DOE sites recycled
more than 610,000 pounds of surplus electronics
between November 15, 2006 and March 19, 2007.
See the press
release announcing winners (4/17/07).
Four DOE sites have won ERRC awards from
2006-2007.
- South, Small Facilities Civilian - Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (2007)
- Western Large Facilities-Civilian - Idaho
National Laboratory (2007)
- Regional Civilian Facility Award - Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant (2006)
- Regional Civilian Facility Award - Kansas
City Plant (2006)
Federal
Electronics Challenge Award Winners
2005 through 2007:
Gold:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2007)
Bonneville Power Administration (2005)
Silver:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (2007)
DOE Headquarters - Washington, DC (2007)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2007)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2006)
Bronze:
Idaho National Laboratory (2007)
Pantex Plant (2007)
DOE Headquarters - Washington, DC (2006)
Kansas City Plant (2006)
Andrew Lawrence, Director of DOE Office of
Nuclear Safety and Environment, (center), and
Richard Langston, DOE Green Procurement Specialist,
(left), accept Federal Electronics Challenge
Silver Award for DOE Headquarters from Federal
Environmental Executive Ed Pinero, June 2007.
Photo by Daniel Hart, U.S. EPA., Photo courtesy
of U.S. EPA.
FEC
Partners
Bonneville Power Administration
DOE Headquarters
DOE Office of Environmental Management
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory
Kansas City Plant
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Nevada Test Site
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pantex Plant
Sandia National Laboratories - California
Sandia National Laboratories - New Mexico
Western Regional Office
Yucca Mountain Project: Bechtel SAIC
For more information, contact DOE Electronics
Stewardship coordinator Jeff Eagan (202-586-4598
or jeff.eagan@eh.doe.gov).
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