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  • EPA's Combined Heat and Power Partnership.  Is your facility a good candidate?  Find out here:  http://www.epa.gov/chp/
  • Good reference material: The U.S. Conference of Mayors -- "Best Practices of City Governments" -- http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/best_practices/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) facilities management won an international award for facilities management, awarded by International Facility Management Association (the “Golden Circles Award”) – check out PNNL's Environmental Technology Solutions: Waste Management, Environment Safety & Health, Assessment & Integration, Pollution Prevention, and more: http://www.pnl.gov/etd

  • Check out the FacilitiesNet story about how savings opportunities might be overlooked by misunderstood terms and overlooked errors on your monthly electric bills.
    http://www.facilitiesnet.com/bom/Dec03/Dec03energy.shtml

  • GSA's E-Practice Library: For a comprehensive listing of over 300 best practice policies and success stories in federal facilities, GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy provides this resource with easily-searchable topics. link

  • EPA's National Environmental Performance Track ("Performance Track") is a public/private partnership which recognizes and rewards top environmental performance among a wide variety of participating facilities of all the major industries, both public and private. The program, which began in June 2000, currently has approximately 340 members and welcomes all qualifying facilities. For application dates and further information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/performancetrack/
    BestPractices - A program of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) that works with industry to identify plant-wide opportunities for energy savings and process efficiency. http://www.oit.doe.gov/bestpractices/