1. ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP
Diana Robinson
Environmental Systems Branch
Hart – Dole - Inouye Federal Center Comm: (269) DSN:
74 N. Washington Ave N STE 7
Battle Creek MI FAX: (269)
This brief outlines DLIS Environmental Programs

2. Environmental Reporting Logistics System
ERLS is DLA’s Environmental Reporting Logistics System. ERLS has a hazardous side called Compliance and a Pollution Prevention side.

3. ERLS MISSION tracking and reporting capability
Automated environmental
tracking and reporting capability
Meet reporting requirements of
Executive Orders and 13148
Track hazardous,
radioactive, and Environmentally
Preferred Products
(EPP)
Executive Order is Greening the Government through Waste Prevention, Recycling and Federal Acquisition.
EO Leadership in environmental management.
ERLS tracks acquisitions and requisitions of both hazardous and environmentally preferred items.

4. ERLS APPLICATIONS Environmental Reporting Logistics (ERLS)
A mid-tier application that is downloaded to the user’s PC from the ERLS website
Creates environmental reports such as Tier II reports for EPCRA and chemical balance reports for CAA, Isotope and PSM
Creates a DOD Green Procurement Report
Examples of required reporting would be
EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act –
TIER I (aggregate) and TIER II (specific) reports – Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory reports required by 40 CFR and 41.
ERLS provides DLA activities such as Defense Distribution Centers and DRMOs with the means to track chemical balances and notifies them when they are within 80% of their hazardous chemical thresholds. If they exceed thresholds even once during the year they must produce a report.
ERLS also provides DLA activities with a central location for tracking chemical spills.
RCRA - Resource Conservation Recovery Act 6002 requires procurement of recovered materials by federal facilities and contractors.

5. ERLS APPLICATIONS ERLS Green Procurement Report (GPR)
A small but important
piece of ERLS
A mid-tier application
that is accessible from
the ERLS GPR website at:
Examples of required reporting would be
EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act –
TIER I (aggregate) and TIER II (specific) reports – Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory reports required by 40 CFR and 41.
ERLS provides DLA activities such as Defense Distribution Centers and DRMOs with the means to track chemical balances and notifies them when they are within 80% of their hazardous chemical thresholds. If they exceed thresholds even once during the year they must produce a report.
ERLS also provides DLA activities with a central location for tracking chemical spills.
RCRA - Resource Conservation Recovery Act 6002 requires procurement of recovered materials by federal facilities and contractors.

6. ERLS APPLICATIONS Environmental Reporting Logistics System:
Gathers information about hazardous and environmental items from interfacing systems
Calculates chemical balances on a daily basis for EPCRA, PSM, CAA and Isotopes
Provides Tier (EPCRA) chemical balances by both CAS and MSDS numbers
Provides Tier reports using both Federal and California threshold quantities
Provides notification when EPCRA, PSM and CAA chemicals are within 80% of exceeding thresholds
Users are DLA activities who store and report on hazardous inventories
Examples of required reporting would be
EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act –
TIER I (aggregate) and TIER II (specific) reports – Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory reports required by 40 CFR and 41.
ERLS provides DLA activities such as Defense Distribution Centers and DRMOs with the means to track chemical balances and notifies them when they are within 80% of their hazardous chemical thresholds. If they exceed thresholds even once during the year they must produce a report.
ERLS also provides DLA activities with a central location for tracking chemical spills.
RCRA - Resource Conservation Recovery Act 6002 requires procurement of recovered materials by federal facilities and contractors.

7. HOW ERLS WORKS DLA/GSA Systems ERLS Mid Tier Server FTP/Direct
Database Link
DISN
DLA/GSA Systems
BOSS and HMIRS – direct database link – the systems/servers talk directly with each other. HMIRS operates off the same server as ERLS.
Remaining interfacing systems send us data via secure FTP File Transfer Protocol (?)
ERLS is a combination of an Oracle Database and an executable file called a client file. It reside on 2 DLIS servers – 1 for testing – 1 for production. The client file is downloaded to a user’s PC from the ERLS website. It is the client file in conjunction with a valid userid and password that allows you access to the database on the server.
- Chemical Balance Reports
- Daily tracking of $$
- Annual EPCRA Reports
- Green vs non-green procurements
- Daily HM Inventory
- Purchases and Sales
information
- Environmentally Friendly
Item identification
ERLS
Mid Tier Server
At Battle Creek

8. CONTRACTS/REQUISITIONS/HM RETURNS
ERLS INTERFACES
SAMMS/BSM
MSDS INFO
HMIRS
MSDS INFO
HMIRS
CONTRACTS/REQUISITIONS/HM RETURNS
- DLA ICPs
HM INVENTORY - DLA DEPOTS
DSS
BOSS
CONTRACTS- DLA RETAIL SITES
FLIS
HM INVENTORY - DRMOs
DAISY
ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRIBUTE ITEMS
DFAMS/FAS
We have recently added GSA requisitions to ERLS (from GSA’s Management Information System).
HM INVENTORY - DLA RETAIL SITES
BOSS
CONTRACTS/REQUISITIONS/ HM RETURNS
- DLA FUEL DEPOTS
GSA MIS
GSA REQUISITIONS
HAZARDOUS
ENVIRONMENTAL

9. OVERVIEW EPP What is EPP:
Federal-wide initiative
Encourages and promotes procurement and use of products and services containing
Recycled content
Use less energy
Less toxic
Less harmful to the environment
Helps Fed Govt., military services
recoup $$ and resources currently
devoted to waste stream management.
*Major roadblocks that we uncovered:
*How do we do this?
What standards / definitions / criteria do we use?
* How do we bring this into the Federal Catalog System?

10. OVERVIEW EPP The DLA Environmentally Preferable Products Program:
Helps DLA customers meet the goals and objectives outlined in Executive Orders, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, (RCRA) and other legislation and policies that have Environmental impact.
Helps DLA customers meet RCRA and Defense Bills calling for reporting and metrics on ‘green’ procurement
Over 3000 ‘Green’ products in the FCS
*Major roadblocks that we uncovered:
*How do we do this?
What standards / definitions / criteria do we use?
* How do we bring this into the Federal Catalog System?

11. EPP DRIVERS AND LEGISLATION
Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA)
Section 6002
Government agencies must
buy products with Recovered
Materials
Affirmative procurement
“Cradle-to-grave” and
Life cycle management
We start off w/ RCRA the catalyst for Environmentally Preferable procurement: Requiring federal agencies, for the first time to buy “green”,
*TRCRA addresses the need for reporting on Green buys & considers life cycle costs / cradle to grave in procurement decisions.
* Now we have to buy intelligently: look down the road

12. EPP DRIVERS AND LEGISLATION
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 23 Subpart 23.7-Contracting for Environmentally Preferable Products and Services
Agencies must implement
policies that:
Maximize use of
environmentally preferable
products and services.
Implement cost-effective
contracting preference
programs for EPP.
We start off w/ RCRA: Requiting for the first time to buy “green”,
*report on Green buys & consider life cycle costs /cradle to grave
Now we have to buy intelligently: look down the road
Policy.
Agencies must-
(a) Implement cost-effective contracting preference programs promoting energy-efficiency, water conservation, and the acquisition of environmentally preferable products and services; and
(b) Employ acquisition strategies that affirmatively implement the following environmental objectives:
(1) Maximize the utilization of environmentally preferable products and services (based on EPA-issued guidance).
(2) Promote energy-efficiency and water conservation.
(3) Eliminate or reduce the generation of hazardous waste and the need for special material processing (including special handling, storage, treatment, and disposal).
(4) Promote the use of nonhazardous and recovered materials.
(5) Realize life-cycle cost savings.
(6) Promote cost-effective waste reduction when creating plans, drawings, specifications, standards, and other product descriptions authorizing material substitutions, extensions of shelf-life, and process improvements.
(7) Consider the use of biobased products.

13. EPP DRIVERS AND LEGISLATION
As part of a comprehensive Environmental Management System (EMS), procurement and use of Environmentally Preferable Products can have a positive
impact on reduction of
the hazardous waste
stream and the
Resources devoted
to managing it. $
Aside from legislation mandates, buying ‘Green’ is smart:
Green products do not require the handling, tracking and disposal cost associated with hazardous products.
Green products are generally safer
Green product are less harmful to the environment
Waste Stream

14. ERLS APPLICATIONS ERLS Green Procurement Report (GPR)
Provides visibility of total green and non-
green procurements in $$ from DLA and GSA
Users are DOD activities
that requisition from DLA and
GSA
Reports automatically
generated quarterly
Examples of required reporting would be
EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act –
TIER I (aggregate) and TIER II (specific) reports – Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory reports required by 40 CFR and 41.
ERLS provides DLA activities such as Defense Distribution Centers and DRMOs with the means to track chemical balances and notifies them when they are within 80% of their hazardous chemical thresholds. If they exceed thresholds even once during the year they must produce a report.
ERLS also provides DLA activities with a central location for tracking chemical spills.
RCRA - Resource Conservation Recovery Act 6002 requires procurement of recovered materials by federal facilities and contractors.

15. ERLS APPLICATIONS ERLS Green Procurement Report (GPR)
Customized queries by FY
and Service/Agency, DODAAC
and Environmental Attribute
Code
Is DOD’s Green
Procurement Strategy tool for
tracking and increasing green
procurements
Examples of required reporting would be
EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act –
TIER I (aggregate) and TIER II (specific) reports – Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory reports required by 40 CFR and 41.
ERLS provides DLA activities such as Defense Distribution Centers and DRMOs with the means to track chemical balances and notifies them when they are within 80% of their hazardous chemical thresholds. If they exceed thresholds even once during the year they must produce a report.
ERLS also provides DLA activities with a central location for tracking chemical spills.
RCRA - Resource Conservation Recovery Act 6002 requires procurement of recovered materials by federal facilities and contractors.

16. HOW ERLS GPR WORKS QUARTERLY DATA TRANSFER
- WEB ACCESS TO GREEN PRODUCT REPORTS BY ORDERING ACTIVITY, UNIT, INSTALLATION, SERVICE/AGENCY.
ERLS
GPR WEB Server
At Battle Creek
ERLS
Mid Tier Server
At Battle Creek

17. ERLS BENEFITS Centralized hazardous inventory for DLA activities
Elimination of
manual report
preparation
Increased accuracy
of environmental
reports
We added GSA requisitions at the beginning of 2003 to produce a combined DLA/GSA Green Procurement Report.
Beginning in FY04, the ERLS GPR will serve as the Baseline for DLA and GSA customers to track and report their efforts to increase green procurements.
It will also be DLA’s baseline for their efforts to increase green sales.

18. ERLS BENEFITS Automated inventory tracking improve response time to
hazardous spill with accurate,
up-to-date information
Improve stock positioning
and avoid material transfers
Consolidated DLA
and GSA Green
Procurement Reporting
We added GSA requisitions at the beginning of 2003 to produce a combined DLA/GSA Green Procurement Report.
Beginning in FY04, the ERLS GPR will serve as the Baseline for DLA and GSA customers to track and report their efforts to increase green procurements.
It will also be DLA’s baseline for their efforts to increase green sales.

19. ERLS BENEFITS
Please visit the DLIS Environmental Booth #444 for a demonstration of ERLS or the ERLS GPR.