For the purposes of this report and inventory, the organizational boundaries are comprised of HCC’s District Administrative Office (DAO), The Corporate Training Center (TCTC), Dale Mabry Campus, Brandon Campus, Plant City Campus, Ybor City Campus, South Shore Center, educational facilities associated with workforce programs of Ybor City Campus, English Creek Environmental Studies Center, and Cockroach Bay Environmental Studies Center. For all scopes (data) above mentioned facilities were included. In addition, student enrollment at HCC’s program at MacDill AFB was considered for purposes of calculating student commuting. Faculty and Staff at MacDill AFB were included to account for HCC’s personnel commuting.

We reviewed a number of tools and methodologies, to include the tool provided by Clean Air – Cool Planet, and assessed their applicability, scope, ease of use, and overall fit with factors relevant to Hillsborough Community College. We believe that the structure of our customized tool has been used previously by institutions that compare well with Hillsborough Community College. Further, our customized tool is similar to the tool provided by the Clean Air – Cool Planet. Our spreadsheet tool and methodology for calculating GHG's is based on the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WRI-WBCSD) and EPA Climate Leaders protocols.

CLIMATE LEADERS
GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY PROTOCOL CORE MODULE GUIDANCE
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1. HCC’s President signed the ACUPCC commitment in December 2008.
2. The HCC Sustainability Council, grew "organically" and is comprised of volunteers (administrators, faculty, staff, and students) was formed in March 2009.
3. A GHG Inventory sub-committee was formed comprising several Council members. The sub-committee met to plan the GHG inventory process and to provide an overall direction to conduct the inventory. Sub-committee members were assigned tasks to collect information/data related to various scopes (and sub-scopes) of the GHG inventory.
4. HCC’s office of Institutional Research provided key data to complete the inventory.
5. Dr. Sudeep Vyapari, Director of the Institute of Florida Studies (IFS) at HCC was an given additional charge, upon approval by the College President, to lead the GHG inventory procedures at HCC in November 2009.
6. Two IFS student workers were assigned to this project and were supported by two IFS staff members in computing HCC faculty, staff, and student commuting data.
7. The process of data collection, computing, and analysis of data for the GHG inventory began in November 2009 and concluded in March 2010.
8. GHG inventory report preparation began March 2010 and was completed in April 2010.
9. Findings of the report were presented to the HCC Sustainability Council prior to submission of report to the ACUPCC.

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Emissions from college related travel was calculated using budget data for various modes of transportation. Certain assumptions were made and where such assumptions had to be made we erred on the high side of a range to assure that we would not likely underestimate emissions derived from the budget data. Data on student commuting was estimated using three methods. An average of all three methods was used to report estimated miles commuted by students. For purposes of estimating miles traveled by HCC personnel or students, a 100-miles one-way commute (travel) was determined to be the upper limit for daily commute

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