WELCOME TO THE GARRISON COMMANDERS SUSTAINABILITY BREAKFAST

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WELCOME TO THE GARRISON COMMANDERS
SUSTAINABILITY BREAKFAST January 10, 2007
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Discussion Road Map

• Review Updated Air Goal
• Status of Reaching Goal
• Emission Sources
• Accomplishments
• Future Initiatives
• Challenges

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UPDATED SUSTAINABILITY AIR GOAL 5
Reduce
hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions by 5
tons (target year 2012) or by 8 tons (target
year 2022) (based on 2005 emissions)
How do we do this??
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FORT CARSON HAP EMISSIONS
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EMISSION SOURCES

• Military Training smoke/obscurants, open
  burning/open detonation, ranges
• Particulate Emissions abrasive blasting,
  cooling towers, tank trails, haul roads/yard,
  prescribed burning

• Combustion boilers, furnaces, emergency
  generators, engine test stands
• Fuel Storage Tanks

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EMISSION SOURCES

• Refrigerants air conditioners, chillers,
  walk-in refrigerators
• Chemical/Solvent Use vehicle/weaponry
• maintenance, paint striping operations, X-rays
• Coating Activities paint booths

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Mobile Emissions

• 2006 free pilot project by US Army Center for
  Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (funded
  thru Army Environmental Center)
• Sources 2005 inventory looked
• Aviation vehicles
• Combat vehicles
• Engineering equipment
• Tactical vehicles
• GOVs (directorates)
• POVs
• Non-road vehicles/equipment (directorates,
  housing)

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CONSIDERATIONS FOR REDUCING HAPs

• Stationary vs. mobile sources.
• Technology/innovation and population-
• driven.
• Educational awareness, personal choices,
  coordination, funding.
• Consider total environmental and social costs in
  cost analyses.

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SUCCESS STORIES
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2006 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Building 8000
• Painters attended Iowa Waste Reduction
  Centers Spray Technique Analysis Research for
  Defense (STAR4D) paint course.
• Post-wide
• New state-of-the art paint booth approved for
  funding for design. Anticipate construction
  mid-Jan 07.
• Pilot project Mobile Source Emissions
  Inventory by US Army Center for Health Promotion
  and Preventive Medicine. (Report due end of
  CY07.)
• Work with vendors to capture hazmats sold
  directly to Soldiers.

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FUTURE INITIATIVES

• Technology Demonstration Projects
• Department of Energy / Gas Technology Institute
  / Cleaver-Brooks ultra-high efficiency boiler.
  (Start date TBD 2007)
• Concurrent Technologies Corporation / National
  Defense Center for Environmental Excellence
  Ultra Reduced NOx Burner (URNB) participate in
  pilot project at Fort Bliss.
• Water dispersible CARC paint (low VOC,
  HAP-free)
• Federal Grants
• EPA Region 8 Clean School Bus USA potentially
  School District 8

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FUTURE INITIATIVES

• Partnerships
• Sustainability Teams educational campaign -
  encourage voluntary emission control measures.
• Manufacturers explore Volatile Organic
  Compound (VOC) reductions through paint/adhesive
  reformulation.
• Directorates Green Seal Certification for
  environmentally-friendly cleaning products.

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FUTURE INITIATIVES

• Pollution Prevention
• Purchase more appropriate, better paint
  spray-guns
• Analyze chemicals used at all paint booths.
  Utilize Joint
• Service Solvent Substitution (new database).
• Paint distribution system
• Alternative blasting media
• Miscellaneous
• Expand goal to include volatile organic
  compounds

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POTENTIAL CHALLENGES

• Inability to obtain funding (i.e., utilities for
  new paint booth, on post shuttle service).
• Increased population due to BRAC, increased
• emission sources.
• Ability to purchase hazardous products from local
  stores, vendors, on-line using government credit
  card.
• Alternative materials are slow to be approved
  (TACOM) / difficult to obtain without an NSN.
• Technology-driven, acceptance of substitute
  materials, perceptions, and business practice
  changes.

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DISCUSSION
THINK OUT OF THE BOX!!
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DECAM Air ProgramContacts
Mark Bradbury DECAM Environmental Compliance
Team Program Operations Manager 526-4683
mark.bradbury_at_us.army.mil Chad Meister DECAM
Air Program Coordinator 526-6601
chad.meister_at_us.army.mil

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2005 INITIATIVES IMPLEMENTED

• Building 8000 (DOL)
• Using low-volatile organic compound (VOC)/HAP
  chemical agent resistant compound (CARC) paint
  for tactical vehicles.
• Product substitution for cleaning paint
  guns/thinning paints.
• Post-wide
• Using low-VOC/HAP paint for traffic striping
  operations (DPW).
• Removing solvents/cleaners/lubricants not
  approved for purchase
• Conducting extensive P2 evaluation.

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LARGEST HAP EMISSION SOURCES (2004)

• External Combustion Sources 3.86 tons (28 of
  total HAPs)
• Insignificant boilers w/standard burner
  configuration 2.41 of 3.86 tons.
• Chemical Usage 2.54 tons (18 of total HAPs)
• Basewide chemical usage 1.12 tons and
  pesticide use .94 tons of 2.54 tons.

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SUSTAINABILITY GOALS RELATING TO AIR ISSUES

• Goal 1 Sustainable Energy
• Goal 2 Transportation
• Goal 3 Improve Communication
• Goal 4 Sustainability Partnerships
• Goal 5 Zero Hazardous Air Pollutants
• Goal 9 Sustainable Procurement
• Goal 10 Zero Hazardous Waste