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To: Maureen Koetz[koetz@koetzduncan.com] From: Cameron, Scott Sent: 2018-01-05T20:58:06-05:00 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Natural Capital Report Received: 2018-01-05T20:58:38-05:00 Thanks, Maureen. Talk to you later. Scott Scott J. Cameron Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget Office of the Secretary of the Interior Desk 202 208 4242 Cell 202 706 9031 On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:57 AM, <koetz@koetzduncan.com> wrote: Hi Scott, Happy New Year! Hope the celebration was fun. Great to catch up, very much appreciate the time. I've attached the Natural Capital Asset Management (NCAM)TM report I mentioned for DOE at the Savannah River Site (SRS). At the time, DOE/SRS leadership believed it could be expanding its missions and services, and understood that the 300 square mile complex had usable natural infrastructure capacity in multiple categories that DOE could use as it resized and optimized across its sites. The analysis used extant data held by various SRS components which had not been compiled or synthesized before. The analysis design is based on management paradigms I developed as the AF PDAS when it became clear in the early 2000s that DOD was running out of usable air, land, and water supplies (encroachment, as we termed it). Although successful, the project ran into some rice bowls, particularly among the "land use" planners who were not particularly inclined to recognize the role (or value) of independent water and air components as comparable to surface. What should have been the next phase, indexing the available capacity to current and future requirements, was not completed after SRS got afoul of OMB for other reasons and funding options were eliminated. On the flip side of the same coin (mentioned at the end of our conversation), greater output using a smaller natural infrastructure supply is the basis for environmental preferability as a market share factor. I've been speaking to the US steel industry about tapping the green market (vice arguably "brown" competitor products) and the same can go for US extraction industries such as those overseen by DOI--they operate on much smaller natural infrastructure and component consumption levels, making them greener per unit of ultimate production. I've also attached a report I did several years ago for a fighter jet acquisition in Europe showing that main line products can (and should) be "green" differentiated, and qualitative profiling of only certain products is undermining the much cleaner US economy in general. Looked at PERC, and their efforts are most impressive. I see NCAMTM as very much complimentary to the principles they espouse, coming at it from a pragmatic "reality of supply" angle in addition to the legal rights. I'd be very interested in following up with them wherever possible. however, I think the main area for DOI will be in getting some compiled data base of natural capital capacity (both usable and banked) to both support optimization and to simplify its NEPA administration. Coming from the Navy, the Secretary understands better than most the role of natural capital in operational capability, and I think would see the value in a capacity/capability based program update. Look forward to chatting again soon. Best, Maureen Maureen T. Koetz Managing Director, Koetz and Duncan LLC "Building Enterprise Value on Sustainable Foundations" 355 South End Avenue, Suite 30J New York, NY 10280 202-258-0149 Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this e mail and any attachments to it may be legally privileged and include confidential information intended only for the recipient(s) identified above. If you are not one of those intended recipients, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e mail in error, please notify the sender of that fact by return e mail and permanently delete the e mail and any attachments to it immediately. Please do not retain, copy or use this e mail or its attachments for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its contents to any other person. Thank you