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Gsa: Opportunities to Cut Costs, Improve Energy Performance, and Eliminate Waste S. HRG. 112–829 GSA: OPPORTUNITIES TO CUT COSTS, IMPROVE ENERGY PERFORMANCE, AND ELIMINATE WASTE JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MARCH 30, 2011 Printed for the use of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.fdsys.gpo.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 85–234PDF WASHINGTON : 2014 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION BARBARA BOXER, California, Chairman MAX BAUCUS, Montana JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware DAVID VITTER, Louisiana FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont MIKE CRAPO, Idaho SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee TOM UDALL, New Mexico MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska JEFF MERKLEY, Oregon JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, New York BETTINA POIRIER, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel RUTH VAN MARK, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island, Chairman BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas BARBARA BOXER, California, (ex officio) JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma, (ex officio) (II) CONTENTS Page MARCH 30, 2011 Boxer, Hon. Barbara, U.S. Senator from the State of California ........................ 1 Inhofe, Hon. James M., U.S. Senator from the State of Oklahoma .................... 2 Whitehouse, Hon. Sheldon, U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island ......... 4 Cardin, Hon. Benjamin L., U.S. Senator from the State of Maryland ................ 5 Merkley, Hon. Jeff, U.S. Senator from the State of Oregon ................................ 7 WITNESSES Johnson, Martha, Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration .......... 8 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 10 Sindelar, John, client industry executive, HP Enterprise Services ..................... 50 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 53 Bautista, John, vice president, New Business Development, Arrowhead Sys- tems, Inc ............................................................................................................... 56 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 58 Gatlin, Doug, vice president, LEED, U.S. Green Building Council ..................... 65 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 67 Responses to additional questions from: Senator Boxer ............................................................................................ 75 Senator Inhofe ........................................................................................... 75 Hubbell, Ward, president, Green Building Initiative ........................................... 76 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 78 DeBoer, Jeffrey D., president and chief executive officer, The Real Estate Roundtable ............................................................................................................ 91 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 93 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Letter from several organizations and companies to Hon. John Boehner and Hon. Nancy Pelosi, dated February 17, 2011 .................................................... 119 Statements: Block, Nadine, senior director of Government Outreach, Sustainable For- estry Initiative, Inc. ...................................................................................... 121 Phillips, Cassie, vice president, Sustainable Forests & Products, Weyerhaeuser Company ............................................................................... 123 National Association of Home Builders .......................................................... 125 Glowinski, Robert, American Wood Council ................................................... 131 American Forest Foundation ........................................................................... 133 (III) GSA: OPPORTUNITIES TO CUT COSTS, IM- PROVE ENERGY PERFORMANCE AND ELIMI- NATE WASTE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS, JOINTLY WITH THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, Washington, DC. The committees met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m. in room 406, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Sheldon Whitehouse (chair- man of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Boxer, Inhofe, Whitehouse, Cardin, Merkley and Boozman. STATEMENT OF HON. BARBARA BOXER, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Senator BOXER. Thank you very much for being here today for this important hearing on opportunities at the GSA to cut costs, improve energy performance and eliminate waste. I am going to make my opening statement and then I am going to turn the gavel over to our subcommittee Chair on this very im- portant matter. Then if he has to leave to go to another committee hearing, he will hand the gavel back. So, we are going to be doing a little passing off of gavels. The Federal Government is one of the Nation’s largest energy consumers and purchases nearly $500 billion in goods and services every year. The Federal Government is positioned to be a leader in efforts to improve efficiency, eliminate waste, improve environ- mental performance and save money. So, this is an area where I think that Republicans and Democrats can meet because we all want to see efficiency in place. GSA provides office space to over 1 million Federal employees in over 9,600 Federal buildings and leases totaling 370 million square feet of space. The Agency is already playing a key role in improving the efficiency of office buildings nationwide which account for a sig- nificant amount of the Nation’s energy and water use and waste. According to the EPA and the U.S. Green Building Council, buildings in the U.S. account for 36 percent of total energy use, 36 percent, and 65 percent of electricity consumption, 12 percent of total water consumption, 68 percent of total electricity consumption and 30 percent, I do not know, we said two electricities so that does not make sense. But let us just put it this way. We use a lot of (1) 2 energy. We will correct this for the record to show exactly how much. Now, Senator Inhofe and I worked together a long time ago and we did write some legislation which said let us save money and we set up a situation where in many Federal buildings we said we want to have someone in charge of making sure that the energy use is kept at the lowest level possible. We, I think learned, as we wrote this legislation, I will never forget it because Senator Inhofe said, I am not going to support this unless you show me the pay- back. The payback was just a few years for the capital that we put up front. GSA is also the central Agency for acquiring products and serv- ices for the Federal Government. The Agency offers over 12 million products and services to other Federal agencies. GSA can have a large influence on the goods and services that are provided to the Federal Government by the private sector. Businesses worldwide are working to cut costs, reduce waste and improve efficiency and are creating competitive advantages in the process. I think the Federal Government can learn from these pri- vate sector efforts. Done right, these initiatives can cut waste and inefficiency while making the Federal Government’s supply chain cleaner and sustainable. Again, the legislation we enacted, the Energy Independence and Security Act, provided for construction of green Government build- ings and retrofit Federal buildings with energy efficient tech- nologies. Both Presidents Bush and Obama also issued Executive orders to improve the sustainability of the Federal Government. These are important initiatives and today we will hear from GSA about how those initiatives are being implemented. On the second panel we will hear from companies who are work- ing to improve their own operations about the benefits they have seen by becoming more efficient. We will also hear from building and energy efficiency experts from outside of Government regard- ing the progress that has been made in building efficiency to date, the barriers to further improvements, and what more can be done. I personally believe we must continue to aggressively improve the efficiency and sustainability of the Federal Government and I look forward to working with GSA and my colleagues to determine if adequate authorities exist to enable the Federal Government to continue cutting waste, reduce energy use, improve environmental performance and remove any barriers there may be to these ongo- ing efforts. I appreciate all of the witnesses who are here today. I am hoping to stay for all of you and, before I hand the gavel over to my col- league to run this meeting, I am going to call on Senator Inhofe for his opening remarks. STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES M. INHOFE, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Senator INHOFE.
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