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Overview of Green Product Requirements

Overview of Green Product Requirements. Legal Basis of Green Purchasing. The requirements for Federal agencies to purchase products with specific environmental and energy attributes are found in laws and executive orders.

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Overview of Green Product Requirements

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  1. Overview of Green Product Requirements

  2. Legal Basis of Green Purchasing • The requirements for Federal agencies to purchase products with specific environmental and energy attributes are found in laws and executive orders. • While these requirements apply to products, they also affect services that include the supply or use of products.

  3. What Are We Trying to Accomplish? • The statutes and executive orders have a range of goals and objectives: • Create markets for recovered materials and biobased materials • Increase building and vehicle energy efficiency • Increase building water efficiency • Reduce pollution • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Improve worker safety • Improve building indoor air quality • Demonstrate the viability of green products

  4. What Are We Trying to Accomplish? • All Federal agencies purchase goods and services, operate buildings, own or lease fleet vehicles, and use IT equipment. • These four activities create significant environmental and energy impacts. • As part of Federal sustainability efforts, Federal agencies are reducing their energy and environmental footprint, including through acquisition.

  5. Federal Green Purchasing Program Drivers • Executive order goals and requirements • Statutory requirements • Federal Acquisition Regulation provisions

  6. Executive Order 13423 E.O. 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management, sets acquisition-related goals for: • Purchasing green products (products with specific energy and environmental attributes) • Sustainable Federal buildings • EPEAT-registered products • Non- or low-toxic or hazardous products

  7. Executive Order 13514 • Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, October 8, 2009: • Establish an integrated agency strategy for sustainability, including reducing GHG emissions, within the Federal government in order to lead by example and achieve a clean energy economy

  8. E.O. 13514 Sustainable Acquisition Goal E.O. 13514 requires agencies to ensure that 95% of all new contracts, including contract modifications, for products and services specify: • Energy-efficient products • Water-efficient products • Biobased products • Environmentally preferable products and services • Non-ozone depleting substances • Recycled content products • Non-toxic or less-toxic alternatives

  9. Statutory Requirements • Recycled content: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Section 6002 • Biobased content: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act (2002 Farm Bill), Section 9002; and 2008 Farm Bill • Energy efficient products and alternative fuel vehicles: Energy Policy Act of 1992 and 2005 • Building energy efficiency: Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 • Alternatives to ozone depleting substances: Clean Air Act • Chemicals: Pollution Prevention Act of 1990

  10. FAR Provisions • FAR Part 23 contains the policies and procedures for purchasing green products. • Green purchasing requirements are also integrated throughout the rest of the FAR.

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