80 FR 15871 - Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade
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Executive Order 13693--Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next
Decade
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 80 , No. 57 / Wednesday, March 25, 2015 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13693 of March 19, 2015
Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next
Decade
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to maintain Federal leadership in
sustainability and greenhouse gas emission reductions,
it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. Executive departments and agencies
(agencies) have been among our Nation's leaders as the
United States works to build a clean energy economy
that will sustain our prosperity and the health of our
people and our environment for generations to come.
Federal leadership in energy, environmental water,
fleet, buildings, and acquisition management will
continue to drive national greenhouse gas reductions
and support preparations for the impacts of climate
change. Through a combination of more efficient Federal
operations such as those outlined in this Executive
Order (order), we have the opportunity to reduce agency
direct greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent
over the next decade while at the same time fostering
innovation, reducing spending, and strengthening the
communities in which our Federal facilities operate.
It therefore continues to be the policy of the United
States that agencies shall increase efficiency and
improve their environmental performance. Improved
environmental performance will help us protect our
planet for future generations and save taxpayer dollars
through avoided energy costs and increased efficiency,
while also making Federal facilities more resilient. To
improve environmental performance and Federal
sustainability, priority should first be placed on
reducing energy use and cost, then on finding renewable
or alternative energy solutions. Pursuing clean sources
of energy will improve energy and water security, while
ensuring that Federal facilities will continue to meet
mission requirements and lead by example. Employing
this strategy for the next decade calls for expanded
and updated Federal environmental performance goals
with a clear overarching objective of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions across Federal operations and
the Federal supply chain.
Sec. 2. Agency Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions. In
implementing the policy set forth in section 1 of this
order, the head of each agency shall, within 90 days of
the date of this order, propose to the Chair of the
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) percentage
reduction targets for agency-wide reductions of scope 1
and 2 and scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in absolute
terms by the end of fiscal year 2025 relative to a
fiscal year 2008 baseline. Where appropriate, the
target shall exclude direct emissions from excluded
vehicles and equipment and from electric power produced
and sold commercially to other parties as the primary
business of the agency. The proposed targets shall be
subject to the review and approval of the Chair of CEQ
in coordination with the Director of OMB under section
4(b) of this order.
Sec. 3. Sustainability Goals for Agencies. In
implementing the policy set forth in section 1 of this
order and to achieve the goals of section 2 of this
order, the head of each agency shall, where life-cycle
cost-effective, beginning in fiscal year 2016, unless
otherwise specified:
(a) promote building energy conservation,
efficiency, and management by:
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(i) reducing agency building energy intensity measured in British thermal
units per gross square foot by 2.5 percent annually through the end of
fiscal year 2025, relative to the baseline of the agency's building energy
use in fiscal year 2015 and taking into account agency progress to date,
except where revised pursuant to section 9(f) of this order, by
implementing efficiency measures based on and using practices such as:
(A) using remote building energy performance assessment auditing
technology;
(B) participating in demand management programs;
(C) ensuring that monthly performance data is entered into the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager for
covered buildings;
(D) incorporating, where feasible, the consensus-based, industry standard
Green Button data access system into reporting, data analytics, and
automation processes;
(E) implementing space utilization and optimization practices and policies;
(F) identifying opportunities to transition test-bed technologies to
achieve the goals of this section; and
(G) conforming, where feasible, to city energy performance benchmarking and
reporting requirements; and
(ii) improving data center energy efficiency at agency facilities by:
(A) ensuring the agency chief information officer promotes data center
energy optimization, efficiency, and performance;
(B) installing and monitoring advanced energy meters in all data centers by
fiscal year 2018; and
(C) establishing a power usage effectiveness target of 1.2 to 1.4 for new
data centers and less than 1.5 for existing data centers;
(b) ensure that at a minimum, the following
percentage of the total amount of building electric
energy and thermal energy shall be clean energy,
accounted for by renewable electric energy and
alternative energy:
(i) not less than 10 percent in fiscal years 2016 and 2017;
(ii) not less than 13 percent in fiscal years 2018 and 2019;
(iii) not less than 16 percent in fiscal years 2020 and 2021;
(iv) not less than 20 percent in fiscal years 2022 and 2023; and
(v) not less than 25 percent by fiscal year 2025 and each year thereafter;
(c) ensure that the percentage of the total amount
of building electric energy consumed by the agency that
is renewable electric energy is:
(i) not less than 10 percent in fiscal years 2016 and 2017;
(ii) not less than 15 percent in fiscal years 2018 and 2019;
(iii) not less than 20 percent in fiscal years 2020 and 2021;
(iv) not less than 25 percent in fiscal years 2022 and 2023; and
(v) not less than 30 percent by fiscal year 2025 and each year thereafter;
(d) include in the renewable electric energy
portion of the clean energy target established in
subsection (b) of this section renewable electric
energy as defined in section 19(v) of this order and
associated with the following actions, which are listed
in order of priority:
(i) installing agency-funded renewable energy on site at Federal facilities
and retaining corresponding renewable energy certificates (RECs) or
obtaining equal value replacement RECs;
(ii) contracting for the purchase of energy that includes the installation
of renewable energy on site at a Federal facility or off site from a
Federal facility and the retention of corresponding RECs or obtaining equal
value replacement RECs for the term of the contract;
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(iii) purchasing electricity and corresponding RECs or obtaining equal
value replacement RECs; and
(iv) purchasing RECs;
(e) include in the alternative energy portion of
the clean energy target established in subsection (b)
of this section alternative energy as defined in
section 19(c) of this order and associated with the
following actions, where feasible:
(i) installing thermal renewable energy on site at Federal facilities and
retaining corresponding renewable attributes or obtaining equal value
replacement RECs where applicable;
(ii) installing combined heat and power processes on site at Federal
facilities;
(iii) installing fuel cell energy systems on site at Federal facilities;
(iv) utilizing energy from new small modular nuclear reactor technologies;
(v) utilizing energy from a new project that includes the active capture
and storage of carbon dioxide emissions associated with energy generation;
(vi) implementing other alternative energy approaches that advance the
policy set forth in section 1 and achieve the goals of section 2 of this
order and are in accord with any sustainability, environmental performance,
and other instructions or guidance established pursuant to sections 4(e)
and 5(a) of this order; and
(vii) including in the Department of Defense (DOD) accounting for
alternative energy for this subsection, fulfillment of the requirements for
DOD goals established under section 2852 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 as amended by section 2842 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010;
(f) improve agency water use efficiency and
management, including stormwater management by:
(i) reducing agency potable water consumption intensity measured in gallons
per gross square foot by 36 percent by fiscal year 2025 through reductions
of 2 percent annually through fiscal year 2025 relative to a baseline of
the agency's water consumption in fiscal year 2007;
(ii) installing water meters and collecting and utilizing building and
facility water balance data to improve water conservation and management;
(iii) reducing agency industrial, landscaping, and agricultural (ILA) water
consumption measured in gallons by 2 percent annually through fiscal year
2025 relative to a baseline of the agency's ILA water consumption in fiscal
year 2010; and
(iv) installing appropriate green infrastructure features on federally
owned property to help with stormwater and wastewater management;
(g) if the agency operates a fleet of at least 20
motor vehicles, improve agency fleet and vehicle
efficiency and management by:
(i) determining, as part of the planning requirements of section 14 of this
order, the optimum fleet inventory with emphasis placed on eliminating
unnecessary or non-essential vehicles from the agency's fleet inventory;
(ii) taking actions that reduce fleet-wide per-mile greenhouse gas
emissions from agency fleet vehicles, relative to a baseline of emissions
in fiscal year 2014, to achieve the following percentage reductions:
(A) not less than 4 percent by the end of fiscal year 2017;
(B) not less than 15 percent by the end of fiscal year 2021; and
(C) not less than 30 percent by the end of fiscal year 2025;
(iii) collecting and utilizing as a fleet efficiency management tool, as
soon as practicable but not later than 2 years after the date of this
order, agency fleet operational data through deployment of vehicle
telematics
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at a vehicle asset level for all new passenger and light duty vehicle
acquisitions and for medium duty vehicles where appropriate;
(iv) ensuring that agency annual asset-level fleet data is properly and
accurately accounted for in a formal agency Fleet Management System and any
relevant data is submitted to the Federal Automotive Statistical Tool
reporting database, the Federal Motor Vehicle Registration System, and the
Fleet Sustainability Dashboard (FleetDASH) system;
(v) planning for agency fleet composition such that by December 31, 2020,
zero emission vehicles or plug-in hybrid vehicles account for 20 percent of
all new agency passenger vehicle acquisitions and by December 31, 2025,
zero emission vehicles or plug-in hybrid vehicles account for 50 percent of
all new agency passenger vehicles and including, where practicable,
acquisition of such vehicles in other vehicle classes and counting double
credit towards the targets in this section for such acquisitions; and
(vi) planning for appropriate charging or refueling infrastructure or other
power storage technologies for zero emission vehicles or plug-in hybrid
vehicles and opportunities for ancillary services to support vehicle-to-
grid technology;
(h) improve building efficiency, performance, and
management by:
(i) ensuring, beginning in fiscal year 2020 and thereafter, that all new
construction of Federal buildings greater than 5,000 gross square feet that
enters the planning process is designed to achieve energy net-zero and,
where feasible, water or waste net-zero by fiscal year 2030;
(ii) identifying, beginning in June of 2016, as part of the planning
requirements of section 14 of this order, a percentage of at least 15
percent, by number or total square footage, of the agency's existing
buildings above 5,000 gross square feet that will, by fiscal year 2025,
comply with the revised Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High
Performance and Sustainable Buildings (Guiding Principles), developed
pursuant to section 4 of this order, and making annual progress toward 100
percent conformance with the Guiding Principles for its building inventory;
(iii) identifying, as part of the planning requirements of section 14 of
this order, a percentage of the agency's existing buildings above 5,000
gross square feet intended to be energy, waste, or water net-zero buildings
by fiscal year 2025 and implementing actions that will allow those
buildings to meet that target;
(iv) including in all new agency lease solicitations over 10,000 rentable
square feet:
(A) criteria for energy efficiency either as a required performance
specification or as a source selection evaluation factor in best-value
tradeoff procurements; and
(B) requirements for building lessor disclosure of carbon emission or
energy consumption data for that portion of the building occupied by the
agency that may be provided by the lessor through submetering or estimation
from pro-rated occupancy data, whichever is more cost-effective;
(v) reporting building energy, beginning in fiscal year 2016 as part of the
agency scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions for newly solicited leases over
10,000 rentable square feet;
(vi) including in the planning for new buildings or leases cost-effective
strategies to optimize sustainable space usage and consideration of
existing community transportation planning and infrastructure, including
access to public transit;
(vii) ensuring that all new construction, major renovation, repair, and
alteration of agency buildings includes appropriate design and deployment
of fleet charging infrastructure; and
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(viii) including the incorporation of climate-resilient design and
management elements into the operation, repair, and renovation of existing
agency buildings and the design of new agency buildings;
(i) promote sustainable acquisition and procurement
by ensuring that each of the following environmental
performance and sustainability factors are included to
the maximum extent practicable for all applicable
procurements in the planning, award, and execution
phases of the acquisition by:
(i) meeting statutory mandates that require purchase preference for:
(A) recycled content products designated by EPA;
(B) energy and water efficient products and services, such as ENERGY STAR
qualified and Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)-designated products,
identified by EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE); and
(C) BioPreferred and biobased designated products designated by the United
States Department of Agriculture;
(ii) purchasing sustainable products and services identified by EPA
programs including:
(A) Significant New Alternative Policy (SNAP) chemicals or other
alternatives to ozone-depleting substances and high global warming
potential hydrofluorocarbons, where feasible, as identified by SNAP;
(B) WaterSense certified products and services (water efficient products);
(C) Safer Choice labeled products (chemically intensive products that
contain safer ingredients); and
(D) SmartWay Transport partners and SmartWay products (fuel efficient
products and services);
(iii) purchasing environmentally preferable products or services that:
(A) meet or exceed specifications, standards, or labels recommended by EPA
that have been determined to assist agencies in meeting their needs and
further advance sustainable procurement goals of this order; or
(B) meet environmental performance criteria developed or adopted by
voluntary consensus standards bodies consistent with section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-
113) and OMB Circular A-119;
(iv) acting, as part of the implementation of planning requirements of
section 14 of this order, until an agency achieves at least 95 percent
compliance with the BioPreferred and biobased purchasing requirement in
paragraph (i) of this subsection, to:
(A) establish an annual target for the number of contracts to be awarded
with BioPreferred and biobased criteria and dollar value of BioPreferred
and biobased products to be delivered and reported under those contracts in
the following fiscal year. To establish this target, agencies shall
consider the dollar value of designated BioPreferred and biobased products
reported in previous years, the specifications reviewed and revised for
inclusion of BioPreferred and biobased products, and the number of
applicable product and service contracts to be awarded, including
construction, operations and maintenance, food services, vehicle
maintenance, and janitorial services; and
(B) ensure contractors submit timely annual reports of their BioPreferred
and biobased purchases; and
(v) reducing copier and printing paper use and acquiring uncoated printing
and writing paper containing at least 30 percent postconsumer recycled
content or higher as designated by future instruction under section 4(e) of
this order;
(j) advance waste prevention and pollution
prevention by:
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(i) reporting in accordance with the requirements of sections 301 through
313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (42
U.S.C. 11001 through 11023);
(ii) diverting at least 50 percent of non-hazardous solid waste, including
food and compostable material but not construction and demolition materials
and debris, annually, and pursuing opportunities for net-zero waste or
additional diversion opportunities;
(iii) diverting at least 50 percent of non-hazardous construction and
demolition materials and debris; and
(iv) reducing or minimizing the quantity of toxic and hazardous chemicals
and materials acquired, used, or disposed of, particularly where such
reduction will assist the agency in pursuing agency greenhouse gas emission
reduction targets established in section 2 of this order;
(k) implement performance contracts for Federal
buildings by:
(i) utilizing performance contracting as an important tool to help meet
identified energy efficiency and management goals while deploying life-
cycle cost-effective energy efficiency and clean energy technology and
water conservation measures;
(ii) fulfilling existing agency performance contracting commitments towards
the goal of $4 billion in Federal performance-based contracts by the end of
calendar year 2016; and
(iii) providing annual agency targets for performance contracting for
energy savings to be implemented in fiscal year 2017 and annually
thereafter as part of the planning requirements of section 14 of this
order;
(l) promote electronics stewardship by
establishing, measuring, and reporting by:
(i) ensuring procurement preference for environmentally sustainable
electronic products as established in subsection (i) of this section;
(ii) establishing and implementing policies to enable power management,
duplex printing, and other energy-efficient or environmentally sustainable
features on all eligible agency electronic products; and
(iii) employing environmentally sound practices with respect to the
agency's disposition of all agency excess or surplus electronic products.
Sec. 4. Duties of the Chair of the Council on
Environmental Quality. In implementing the policy set
forth in section 1 of this order, the Chair of CEQ
shall:
(a) in coordination with the Director of OMB,
establish a Federal Interagency Sustainability Steering
Committee (Steering Committee) that shall advise the
Director of OMB and the Chair of CEQ on the performance
of agency responsibilities under sections 2 and 3 of
this order and shall include the Federal Chief
Sustainability Officer referenced in section 6 of this
order and agency Chief Sustainability Officers
designated under sections 7 and 8 of this order;
(b) in coordination with the Director of OMB review
and approve agency-wide scope 1 and 2 and scope 3
greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets developed
under section 2 of this order;
(c) in coordination with the Director of OMB,
prepare streamlined reporting metrics to determine each
agency's progress under sections 2 and 3 of this order;
(d) review and evaluate each agency's Plan prepared
under section 14 of this order;
(e) within 45 days of the date of this order and
thereafter as necessary, after consultation with the
Director of OMB, issue implementing instructions or
other guidance to direct agency implementation of this
order, other than instructions within the authority of
the Director of OMB to issue under section 5 of this
order;
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(f) within 150 days of the date of this order,
prepare and issue revised Guiding Principles for both
new and existing Federal buildings including
consideration of climate change resilience and employee
and visitor wellness;
(g) revise, as necessary and in coordination with
the Director of OMB, existing CEQ guidance and
implementing instructions on Sustainable Locations for
Federal Facilities of September 15, 2011, Sustainable
Practices for Designed Landscapes of October 31, 2011,
as supplemented on October 22, 2014, Federal Greenhouse
Gas Accounting and Reporting Guidance [Revision 1] of
June 4, 2012, and Federal Agency Implementation of
Water Efficiency and Management Provisions of Executive
Order 13514 of July 10, 2013;
(h) within 150 days of the date of this order,
prepare and issue guidance to assist agencies in the
implementation of section 13 of this order;
(i) identify annually, based on total contract
spending in the previous fiscal year as reported in the
Federal Procurement Data System, the seven largest
Federal procuring agencies responsible for
implementation of section 15(b) of this order;
(j) administer a Presidential leadership award
program to recognize exceptional and outstanding
performance and excellence in agency efforts to
implement this order; and
(k) establish and disband, as appropriate,
temporary interagency working groups to provide
recommendations to the Chair of CEQ associated with the
goals of this order, including: grid-based green power;
data quality, collection, and reporting; greenhouse gas
emissions associated with the transportation of Federal
freight and cargo; sustainability considerations in
resilience planning; agency supply chain climate
vulnerability; recycled content paper; green
infrastructure; and carbon uptake accounting and wood
products.
Sec. 5. Duties of the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget. In implementing the policy set
forth in section 1 of this order, the Director of OMB
shall:
(a) issue, after consultation with the Chair of
CEQ, instructions to the heads of agencies concerning
periodic performance evaluation of agency
implementation of this order, including consideration
of the results from section 4(c) of this order;
(b) prepare scorecards providing periodic
evaluation of Principal Agency performance in
implementing this order and publish scorecard results
on a publicly available Web site; and
(c) review and approve each agency's Plan prepared
under section 14 of this order.
Sec. 6. Duties of the Federal Chief Sustainability
Officer. Henceforth, the Federal Environmental
Executive is reestablished as the Federal Chief
Sustainability Officer and the Office of the Federal
Environmental Executive is reestablished as the Office
of the Chief Sustainability Officer, for which the
Environmental Protection Agency shall provide funding
and administrative support and that shall be maintained
at CEQ. In implementing the policy set forth in section
1 of this order, the Federal Chief Sustainability
Officer shall:
(a) monitor progress and advise the Chair of CEQ on
agency goals in sections 2 and 3 of this order;
(b) chair, convene, and preside at quarterly
meetings; determine the agenda; and direct the work of
the Steering Committee;
(c) lead the development of programs and policies
to assist agencies in implementing the goals of this
order in coordination with DOE, EPA, the General
Services Administration (GSA), and other agencies as
appropriate;
(d) coordinate and provide direction to relevant
existing workgroups through quarterly meetings to
ensure that opportunities for improvement in
implementation of this order are identified and
addressed; and
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(e) advise the Chair of CEQ on the implementation
of this order.
Sec. 7. Duties of Principal Agencies. To ensure
successful implementation of the policy established in
section 1 of this order, the head of each Principal
Agency shall:
(a) designate, within 45 days of the date of this
order, an agency Chief Sustainability Officer, who
shall be a senior civilian officer of the United
States, compensated annually in an amount at or above
the amount payable at level IV of the Executive
Schedule, and report such designation to the Director
of OMB and the Chair of CEQ;
(b) assign the designated official the authority to
represent the agency on the Steering Committee
established under section 4 of this order and perform
such other duties relating to the implementation of
this order within the agency as the head of the agency
deems appropriate;
(c) prepare and distribute internally, where
appropriate, performance evaluations of agency
implementation of this order that reflect the
contribution of agency services, components, bureaus,
and operating divisions to the goals of this order;
(d) ensure, as soon as practicable after the date
of this order, that leases and contracts entered into
after the date of this order for lessor or contractor
operation of Government-owned buildings or vehicles
facilitate the agency's compliance with this order;
(e) implement opportunities to improve agency fleet
sustainability, including vehicle acquisitions as
established in section 3(g) of this order, waiver
authority, and fleet data management practices, by
revising agency fleet management review and approval
procedures to include the Chief Sustainability Officers
designated under this section and section 8 of this
order;
(f) consider the development of policies to promote
sustainable commuting and work-related travel practices
for Federal employees that foster workplace vehicle
charging, encourage telecommuting, teleconferencing,
and reward carpooling and the use of public
transportation, where consistent with agency authority
and Federal appropriations law;
(g) ensure regional agency actions consider and are
consistent with, sustainability and climate
preparedness priorities of States, local governments,
and tribal communities where agency facilities are
located;
(h) foster outstanding performance and excellence
in agency efforts to implement this order through
opportunities such as agency leadership award programs;
(i) continue implementation of formal Environmental
Management Systems (EMS) where those systems have
proven effective and deploy new EMSs where appropriate;
and
(j) notwithstanding the limitations on
implementation in section 17 of this order, apply,
where feasible and appropriate, the strategies and
plans to achieve the goals of this order in whole or in
part with respect to fueling, operation, and management
of tactical or emergency vehicles and to the activities
and facilities of the agency that are not located
within the United States.
Sec. 8. Duties of Contributing Agencies. Within 45 days
of the date of this order, to ensure successful
implementation of the policy established in section 1
of this order, the head of each contributing agency
shall designate an agency Chief Sustainability Officer,
who shall be a senior civilian officer of the United
States, compensated annually in an amount at or above
the amount payable at level IV of the Executive
Schedule, and report such designation to the Director
of OMB and the Chair of CEQ.
Sec. 9. Duties of the Agency Chief Sustainability
Officers. The Chief Sustainability Officers designated
under sections 7 and 8 of this order shall be
responsible for:
(a) ensuring agency policies, plans, and strategies
implemented to achieve the goals of this order consider
the role of agency regional facilities and
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personnel and are integrated into agency permitting and
environmental review policies, programs, and planning;
(b) developing and implementing an agency-wide
strategic process that coordinates appropriate agency
functions and programs to ensure that those functions
and programs consider and address the goals of this
order;
(c) reporting annually to the Chair of CEQ and
Director of OMB a comprehensive inventory of progress
towards the greenhouse gas emissions goals established
in section 2 of this order;
(d) representing the agency on the Steering
Committee;
(e) convening quarterly meetings of agency bureaus,
commands, or operating divisions that are responsible
for the implementation of strategies necessary to meet
the goals of this order;
(f) representing the agency in any requests to the
Chair of CEQ and Director of OMB to amend or normalize
a baseline for goals established in this order due to
change of greater than 5 percent as a result of agency
space consolidation, a change in mission tempo, or
improved data quality;
(g) providing plans, including the Plan prepared
under section 14 of this order, reports, information,
and assistance necessary to implement this order, to
the Director of OMB, the Chair of CEQ, and the Federal
Chief Sustainability Officer; and
(h) performing such other duties relating to the
implementation of this order as the head of the agency
deems appropriate.
Sec. 10. Regional Coordination. Within 180 days of the
date of this order, each EPA and GSA Regional office
shall in coordination with Federal Executive Boards
established by the Presidential Memorandum of November
10, 1961 (The Need for Greater Coordination of Regional
and Field Activities of the Government), DOD and other
agencies as appropriate, convene regional interagency
workgroups to identify and address:
(a) sustainable operations of Federal fleet
vehicles, including identification and implementation
of opportunities to use and share fueling
infrastructure and logistical resources to support the
adoption and use of alternative fuel vehicles,
including E-85 compatible vehicles, zero emission and
plug-in hybrid vehicles, and compressed natural gas
powered vehicles;
(b) water resource management and drought response
opportunities;
(c) climate change preparedness and resilience
planning in coordination with State, local, and tribal
communities; and
(d) opportunities for collective procurement of
clean energy to satisfy energy demand for multiple
agency buildings.
Sec. 11. Employee Education and Training. Within 180
days of the date of this order, the Office of Personnel
Management, in coordination with DOE, GSA, EPA, and
other agencies as appropriate, shall:
(a) consider the establishment of a dedicated
Federal occupational series for sustainability
professionals and relevant positions that directly
impact the achievement of Federal sustainability goals
and if appropriate, prepare and issue such occupational
series; and
(b) initiate the inclusion of environmental
sustainability and climate preparedness and resilience
into Federal leadership and educational programs in
courses and training, delivered through electronic
learning, in classroom settings, and residential
centers, particularly developmental training for Senior
Executive Service and GS-15 personnel.
Sec. 12. Supporting the Federal Fleet. (a) GSA shall
ensure that vehicles available to agencies for either
lease or sale, at or below market cost, through its
vehicle program include adequate variety and volume of
alternative fuel vehicles, including zero emission and
plug-in hybrid vehicles, to meet the fleet management
goals of this order.
(b) DOE shall assist the United States Postal
Service (USPS) in evaluating the best alternative and
advanced fuel technologies for the USPS fleet and
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report on such progress annually as part of the
planning requirements of section 14 of this order.
Sec. 13. Supporting Federal Facility Climate
Preparedness and Resilience. The head of each agency
shall, consistent with Executive Order 13653 of
November 1, 2013, ensure that agency operations and
facilities prepare for impacts of climate change as
part of the planning requirements of section 14 of this
order and consistent with planning required under
section 5 of Executive Order 13653 by:
(a) identifying and addressing projected impacts of
climate change on mission critical water, energy,
communication, and transportation demands and
considering those climate impacts in operational
preparedness planning for major agency facilities and
operations; and
(b) calculating the potential cost and risk to
mission associated with agency operations that do not
take into account the information collected in
subsection (a) of this section and considering that
cost in agency decision-making.
Sec. 14. Agency Strategic Sustainability Performance
Plan. Beginning in June 2015, and continuing through
fiscal year 2025, the head of each Principal Agency
shall develop, implement, and annually update an
integrated Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan
(Plan) based on guidance prepared by the Chair of CEQ
under section 4 of this order. Contributing agencies
are encouraged to prepare a Plan but may limit content
of the Plan to a summary of agency actions to meet the
requirements of this order. Each Principal Agency Plan
and update shall be provided to the Chair of CEQ and
Director of OMB, shall be subject to approval by the
Director under section 5 of this order, and shall be
made publicly available on an agency Web site once
approved.
Sec. 15. Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Management. In
implementing the greenhouse gas management policies in
section 1 of this order and to better understand and
manage the implications of Federal supply chain
greenhouse gas emissions:
(a) the Chair of CEQ shall, within 30 days of the
date of this order and annually thereafter, identify
and publicly release an inventory of major Federal
suppliers using publicly available Federal procurement
information, including information as to whether the
supplier has accounted for and publicly disclosed,
during the previous calendar year, annual scope 1 and 2
greenhouse gas emission data and publicly disclosed a
greenhouse gas emission reductions target (or targets)
for 2015 or beyond; and
(b) the seven largest Federal procuring agencies
shall each submit for consideration, in conjunction
with the planning requirements of section 14 of this
order, a plan to implement at least five new
procurements annually in which the agency may include,
as appropriate, contract requirements for vendors or
evaluation criteria that consider contractor emissions
and greenhouse gas emissions management practices. The
plans submitted for consideration may include
identification of evaluation criteria, performance
period criteria, and contract clauses that will
encourage suppliers to manage and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, and shall be implemented as soon as
practicable after any relevant administrative
requirements have been met.
Sec. 16. Revocations and Conforming Provisions. (a)
Pursuant to section 742(b) of Public Law 111-117, I
have determined that this order will achieve equal or
better environmental or energy efficiency results than
Executive Order 13423. Therefore, Executive Order 13423
of January 24, 2007, is revoked.
(b) Executive Order 13514 of October 5, 2009;
Presidential Memorandum of December 2, 2011
(Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and
Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings);
section 1 of Presidential Memorandum of February 21,
2012 (Driving Innovation and Creating Jobs in Rural
America through Biobased and Sustainable Product
Procurement); and Presidential Memorandum of December
5, 2013 (Federal Leadership on Energy Management), are
revoked.
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(c) Presidential Memorandum of May 24, 2011
(Federal Fleet Performance), is revoked as of October
1, 2015.
(d) Section 3(b)(vi) of Executive Order 13327 of
February 4, 2004, is amended by striking ``Executive
Order 13148 of April 21, 2000'' and inserting in lieu
thereof ``other Executive Orders''.
(e) Section 2(d) of Executive Order 13432 of May
14, 2007, is amended to read as follows: ```greenhouse
gases' means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, nitrogen
triflouride, and sulfur hexafluoride;''.
(f) Section 5 of Executive Order 13653 of November
1, 2013, is amended by striking ``Executive Order
13514'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``other Executive
Orders''.
(g) Section 1 of Executive Order 13677 of September
23, 2014, is amended by striking ``Executive Order
13514 of October 5, 2009 (Federal Leadership in
Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance), and
Executive Order 13653 of November 1, 2013 (Preparing
the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change),''
and inserting in lieu thereof ``Several Executive
Orders have''.
Sec. 17. Limitations. (a) This order shall apply to an
agency with respect to the activities, personnel,
resources, and facilities of the agency that are
located within the United States. The head of an agency
may provide that this order shall apply in whole or in
part with respect to the activities, personnel,
resources, and facilities of the agency that are not
located within the United States, if the head of the
agency determines that such application is in the
interest of the United States.
(b) The head of an agency shall manage activities,
personnel, resources, and facilities of the agency that
are not located within the United States with respect
to which the head of the agency has not made a
determination under subsection (a) of this section in a
manner consistent with the policy set forth in section
1 of this order to the extent the head of the agency
determines practicable.
Sec. 18. Exemption Authority. (a) The Director of
National Intelligence may exempt an intelligence
activity of the United States, and related personnel,
resources, and facilities, from the provisions of this
order other than this subsection to the extent the
Director determines necessary to protect intelligence
sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure.
(b) The head of an agency may exempt law
enforcement activities of that agency, and related
personnel, resources, and facilities, from the
provisions of this order other than this subsection to
the extent the head of an agency determines necessary
to protect undercover operations from unauthorized
disclosure.
(c) The head of an agency may exempt law
enforcement, protective, emergency response, or
military tactical vehicle fleets of that agency from
the provisions of this order other than this
subsection. Heads of agencies shall manage fleets to
which this paragraph refers in a manner consistent with
the policy set forth in section 1 of this order to the
extent they determine practicable.
(d) The head of an agency may exempt particular
agency activities and facilities from the provisions of
this order other than this subsection where it is in
the interest of national security. If the head of an
agency issues an exemption under this section, the
agency must notify the Chair of CEQ in writing within
30 days of issuance of the exemption under this
subsection. To the maximum extent practicable, and
without compromising national security, each agency
shall strive to comply with the purposes, goals, and
implementation steps in this order.
(e) The head of an agency may submit to the
President, through the Chair of CEQ, a request for an
exemption of an agency activity, and related personnel,
resources, and facilities, from this order.
Sec. 19. Definitions. As used in this order:
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(a) ``absolute greenhouse gas emissions'' means
total greenhouse gas emissions without normalization
for activity levels and includes any allowable
consideration of sequestration;
(b) ``agency'' means an executive agency as defined
in section 105 of title 5, United States Code,
excluding the Government Accountability Office;
(c) ``alternative energy'' means energy generated
from technologies and approaches that advance renewable
heat sources, including biomass, solar thermal,
geothermal, waste heat, and renewable combined heat and
power processes; combined heat and power; small modular
nuclear reactor technologies; fuel cell energy systems;
and energy generation, where active capture and storage
of carbon dioxide emissions associated with that energy
generation is verified;
(d) ``alternative fuel vehicle'' means vehicles
defined by section 301 of the Energy Policy Act of
1992, as amended (42 U.S.C. 13211), and otherwise
includes electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles,
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, dedicated alternative
fuel vehicles, dual fueled alternative fuel vehicles,
qualified fuel cell motor vehicles, advanced lean burn
technology motor vehicles, low greenhouse gas vehicles,
compressed natural gas powered vehicles, self-propelled
vehicles such as bicycles, and any other alternative
fuel vehicles that are defined by statute;
(e) ``clean energy'' means renewable electric
energy and alternative energy;
(f) ``climate resilient design'' means to design
assets to prepare for, withstand, respond to, or
quickly recover from disruptions due to severe weather
events and climate change for the intended life of the
asset;
(g) ``construction and demolition materials and
debris'' means waste materials and debris generated
during construction, renovation, demolition, or
dismantling of all structures and buildings and
associated infrastructure;
(h) ``Contributing Agencies'' are defined as
executive agencies that are not subject to the Chief
Financial Officers Act and include Federal Boards,
Commissions, and Committees;
(i) ``divert'' or ``diverting'' means redirecting
materials from disposal in landfills or incinerators to
recycling or recovery, excluding diversion to waste-to-
energy facilities;
(j) ``environmentally preferable'' means products
or services that have a lesser or reduced effect on
human health and the environment when compared with
competing products or services that serve the same
purpose. This comparison may consider raw materials
acquisition, production, manufacturing, packaging,
distribution, reuse, use, operation, maintenance, or
disposal related to the product or service;
(k) ``excluded vehicles and equipment'' means any
vehicle, vessel, aircraft, or non-road equipment owned
or operated by an agency of the Federal Government that
is used in combat support, combat service support,
tactical or relief operations, or training for such
operations or spaceflight vehicles (including
associated ground-support equipment);
(l) ``Federal facility'' means any building or
collection of buildings, grounds, or structures, as
well as any fixture or part thereof, which is owned by
the United States or any Federal agency or that is held
by the United States or any Federal agency under a
lease-acquisition agreement under which the United
States or a Federal agency will receive fee simple
title under the terms of such agreement without further
negotiation;
(m) ``greenhouse gases'' means carbon dioxide,
methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons,
perfluorocarbons, nitrogen triflouride, and sulfur
hexafluoride;
(n) ``life-cycle cost-effective'' means the life-
cycle costs of a product, project, or measure are
estimated to be equal to or less than the base case
(i.e., current or standard practice or product);
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(o) ``net-zero energy building'' means a building
that is designed, constructed, or renovated and
operated such that the actual annual source energy
consumption is balanced by on-site renewable energy;
(p) ``net-zero water building'' means a building
that is designed, constructed, or renovated and
operated to greatly reduce total water consumption, use
non-potable sources as much as possible, and recycle
and reuse water in order to return the equivalent
amount of water as was withdrawn from all sources,
including municipal supply, without compromising
groundwater and surface water quantity or quality;
(q) ``net-zero waste building'' means a building
that is operated to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost, or
recover solid waste streams (with the exception of
hazardous and medical waste) thereby resulting in zero
waste disposal;
(r) ``passenger vehicle'' means a sedan or station
wagon designed primarily to transport people as defined
in 102-34.35 of the Federal Management Regulation;
(s) ``power usage effectiveness'' means the ratio
obtained by dividing the total amount of electricity
and other power consumed in running a data center by
the power consumed by the information and
communications technology in the data center;
(t) ``Principal Agencies'' mean agencies subject to
the Chief Financial Officers Act and agencies subject
to the OMB Scorecard process under section 5(b) of this
order;
(u) ``renewable energy certificate'' means the
technology and environmental (non-energy) attributes
that represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of
electricity was generated from an eligible renewable
energy resource, that can be sold separately from the
underlying generic electricity with which they are
associated, and that, for the purposes of section
3(d)(iii) and (iv) of this order, were produced by
sources of renewable energy placed into service within
10 years prior to the start of the fiscal year;
(v) ``renewable electric energy'' means energy
produced by solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean
(including tidal, wave, current, and thermal),
geothermal, geothermal heat pumps, microturbines,
municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation
capacity achieved from increased efficiency or
additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric
project;
(w) ``resilience'' means the ability to anticipate,
prepare for, and adapt to changing conditions and
withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from
disruptions;
(x) ``scope 1, 2, and 3'' mean:
(i) scope 1: direct greenhouse gas emissions from sources that are owned or
controlled by the agency;
(ii) scope 2: direct greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the generation
of electricity, heat, or steam purchased by an agency;
(iii) scope 3: greenhouse gas emissions from sources not owned or directly
controlled by an agency but related to agency activities such as vendor
supply chains, delivery and transportation services, and employee travel
and commuting;
(y) ``United States'' means the fifty States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands,
and the Northern Mariana Islands, and associated
territorial waters and airspace;
(z) ``water balance'' means a comparison of the
water supplied to a defined system to the water
consumed by that system in order to identify the
proportion of water consumed for specific end-uses and
ensure potential water leaks in the system are
addressed; and
(aa) ``zero emission vehicle'' means a vehicle that
produces zero exhaust emissions of any criteria
pollutant (or precursor pollutant) or greenhouse gas
under any possible operational modes or conditions.
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Sec. 20. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of OMB relating to budgetary,
administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented in a manner
consistent with applicable law and subject to the
availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 19, 2015.
[FR Doc. 2015-07016
Filed 3-24-15; 11:15 am]
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