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Office of Science Labs Win White House Pollution Prevention Awards

The Department of Energy and the White House will recognize three Office of Science national laboratories for their Excellence in Environmental Stewardship through Pollution Prevention.

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On June 12, the White House "Closing the Circle Award" will be presented to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Argonne National Laboratory East (ANL-East). At the DOE Pollution Prevention Conference, also in June, Argonne National Laboratory East and Brookhaven National Laboratory will receive further recognition for their efforts in pollution prevention.

Argonne National Laboratory-East will be awarded the White House Closing the Circle Award and DOE Pollution Prevention Award for their Central Supply Facility (CSF). Argonne's soon-to-be-constructed CSF is one of the first DOE buildings offered for certification by the U.S. Green Buildings Council. The design includes over fifteen building materials chosen for their recycled, renewable, or lower-emitting content. Several energy conservation features will reduce electric consumption by 20% and natural gas by 30%, lowering the building's greenhouse gas impact by 55 tons/year.

The building will be constructed to minimize site impacts and reduce solid waste. For these reasons: material selection, energy conservation, and construction methods, the CSF will be a showcase for Environmental Preferability, with broad applicability DOE-wide. ANL-E employees recognized for this effort include Ron Ghilardi Jack Logue Mark Boehlen, Rab Malhotra, and Rudy Bouie.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's White House Closing the Circle Award is for its Reuse Systems. The most environmentally preferable purchasing is avoiding purchasing. One of the ways to avoid purchasing is to "purchase" used materials for free. In FY2000, PNNL established systems for funneling demolition materials and used office products back "on the market." These endeavors avoided almost 1400 metric tons of waste and saved well over $200,000.

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PNNL employees recognized for this effort include Gordon H. William, J. Bjorklund, Toni M. Blue, Marjorie A. Braddy, David M. Brown, Sandra D. Cannon, Raul A. Carreno, John D. Deffenbaugh, Jo Lynn R. Draper, Greg A. Herman, Deanna M. Kratzer, Michael C. Perkins, Daniel P. Ryan, Laura C. Tedeschi, and Robert R. Turner.

Dr. John Marburger
Dr. John Marburger

Brookhaven National Laboratory will receive two DOE Pollution Prevention Awards. The first award is for Excellence in Management: The new Laboratory Director, Dr. John Marburger, faced enormous challenges in the environmental area when, in 1997, DOE terminated the Brookhaven National Laboratory's contract after tritium contamination was discovered in the groundwater beneath its research reactor. This nomination describes the successes of Dr. Marburger implementing the principles of an Environmental Management System and changing the culture and mindset of staff with regard to environmental protection, changing operations to fully integrate environmental stewardship into all facets of the Laboratory's missions, and finally, changing the Laboratory's public image.

BNL Facility
BNL Facility

Brookhaven's second award is for Model Facility Demonstration: The Process Evaluation Project (PEP), completed in May 2000, was a systematic environmental assessment of all waste generating operations and experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Specialized assessment tools were developed to analyze the environmental impacts of operations. Key among these was a process-mapping technique that graphically depicts the process and identifies process input materials and output waste streams. Approximately 145 industrial operations and 1821 experiments were evaluated, resulting in over 245 pollution prevention opportunities and documented savings of $1.6 million. The assessment methodology developed by the PEP has widespread applicability at other DOE and federal sites implementing Executive Order 13148, and is already in the process of being implemented at other CH laboratories.

The Brookhaven team included George Goode, Peter Pohlot, Deborah Bauer, Lori Cunniff, John Selva, Gary Schroeder, Andrew Ackerman, Ann Emrick, Diane Cabelli, Douglas Ports, Edward Lessard, James Bullis, John Boccio, John Laurie, Katherine Conkling, Kathy Carney, Kenneth Mohring, Kris Dahms, Martin Woodle, Nichlos Gmur, Patricia Carr, Patricia Williams, Robert DiNardo, Robert Lee, Ronald Gill, Stephen Musolino, Thomas Lambertson, and Richard Travis.

Contact: Arnold Edelman, (301) 903-5145, ARNOLD.EDELMAN@science.doe.gov

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