Federal Procurement Requirements
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- Business Operations,
- Procurement,
- Purchasing & Procurement,
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Overview: The purpose of RCRA is not merely to control waste generation, waste management, or waste disposal. The title of the Act itself clearly reveals a major focus and intent of the regulatory program – resource conservation and recovery. One of the major goals of RCRA is resource recovery through extracting usable resources from materials that are unintentionally created (i.e., wastes). In order to further RCRA’s resource, conservation, and recovery goals, EPA established provisions to promote recycling and market development. RCRA created federal procurement requirements to create a significant demand for products with recovered content, boost manufacturing of such products, and encourage the private sector to purchase such goods as well. The procurement requirements apply to procuring agencies that purchase $10,000 or more worth of a designated item during the course of their fiscal year, or that purchased at least $10,000 worth of a procurement item during the preceding fiscal year. Each procuring agency must develop an affirmative procurement program for each designated item, setting forth the agency’s policies and procedures for implementing the requirements. This program consists of four parts: Preference program; Promotion program; Estimation, certification, and verification program; and Monitoring and review program.
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Format: PDF | Size: 93KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 6
