E3 Application Questions

Section 3: E3 Application – E3 Environmental Results & Commitments:
Your facility will be required to report annually on the results of your EMS and Pollution Prevention efforts (annual reports due April 1st of each year). Establishing baseline data and tracking results is necessary in order to evaluate the effectiveness of your EMS . A comprehensive EMS may address a wide array of environmental impacts: solid waste, water use, wastewater, energy usage, air impacts, etc.

The ability to measure and report progress is also very important to the administration and success of the Virginia Environmental Excellence Program. We hope that your facility will establish baselines and track progress on all of the environmental measures that you are addressing through your EMS . At a minimum, E3 facilities are required to commit to track EMS results in at least 2 of the following categories:

• Air Emissions
• Energy Use
• Water Discharges
• Water Use
• Waste
• Material Use
• Land Use
• Product Performance
• Other

Facilities are encouraged to focus on one or more of the “indicators” within a category (listed below) when tracking progress and reporting annually to DEQ (although an option of “other” for indicator is available in each category). In the annual report, you will be expected to provide a quantifiable baseline and results for the past year’s efforts in these categories.

CATEGORY	INDICATOR	UNITS
Air Emissions	Greenhouse gases	lbs, tons
	Nitrogen oxides (NOx)	lbs, tons
	Particulate matter (PM)	lbs, tons
	Sulfur oxides (Sox)	lbs, tons
	Toxics	lbs, tons
	Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)	lbs, tons
	Other air emissions	lbs, tons
Energy Use	Electricity	kWh, MWh, MMBtu, Btu
	On-site (i.e. natural gas, fuel oil)	MMBtu, Btu
	Total energy use	MMBtu, Btu
	Other energy use	all Energy Use units
Water Discharges	Biological oxygen demand (BOD)	lbs, tons
	Chemical oxygen demand (COD)	lbs, tons
	Nutrients	lbs, tons
	Sediments	lbs, tons
	Suspended solids	lbs, tons
	Toxics	lbs, tons
	Other water discharges	lbs, tons
Water Use	Virgin water use	gallons
	Reclaimed/recycled water use	gallons
	Total water use	gallons
	Other water use	gallons
Waste	Hazardous waste disposed	lbs, tons
	Hazardous waste recycled	lbs, tons
	Non-hazardous waste disposed	lbs, tons
	Non-hazardous waste recycled	lbs, tons
	Other waste	lbs, tons
Material Use	Hazardous material use	lbs, tons
	Non-hazardous material use	lbs, tons
	Recycled material use	lbs, tons
	Other material use	lbs, tons
Land Use	Land preserved	square feet, acres
	Land restored	square feet, acres
	Other land use	square feet, acres
Product Performance	Projected lifetime energy use	kWh, MWh, MMBtu, Btu
	Projected lifetime water use	gallons
	Projected end-of-life waste	lbs, tons
	Packaging waste	lbs, tons
	Product performance other	all Product Performance units
Other	Other	all units