United States
                          Environmental Protection
                          Agency
                          Pollution Prevention
                          and Toxics
                          (7409)
            EPA742-F-97-002
            November 1997
            http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp
                          Issue  2
                                                             ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PURCHASING
  — Highlights —

Bees Software

DOD's "Green"
Parking Lots

Recent EPP
Publications

New EPP Publications
Coming Soon

NACo's
Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing
Project

Cleaning Products
Pilot Project Update
                                                       Green   Purchasing
                                        Symposium   Is  a  Success
                                                            o
                                          Iver 450 people participated in
                                          the two-day "Greening Federal
                                          Purchasing" symposium held in
                                   Baltimore, Maryland, on July 16 and 17.
                                   The symposium was sponsored by the
                                   EPP Program and the Office of the Federal
                                   Environmental Executive, and coordinated
                                   by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The
                                   meeting provided an excellent opportunity
                                   for vendors, manufacturers, government
                                   procurement officials, and EPP Program
                                   staff to discuss ways to increase environ-
                                   mentally preferable purchasing practices
                                   throughout the government.
                                     Fidel Reijerse, a conference participant
                                   from Ontario, Canada, reported that the

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The  Greening  of  the  FAR
     For the first time, the federal gov-
     ernment's $200 billion-a-year
     purchasing power will focus on
the environment in a uniform, compre-
hensive way. Environmental considera-
tions are now officially part of the
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR),
the federal procurement "bible." On
August 22, 1997, after years of work
and deliberation, final changes to  the
FAR were published in the Federal
Register. The final rule incorporates
policies for the acquisition of environ-
mentally preferable and energy-efficient
products and services. These changes
were effective as of October 21, 1997,
for new federal contracts.
  The FAR provides the basic contracting
guidance and implementing regulations
used by federal agencies for buying prod-
ucts and services from the private sector.
Policies addressing environmental con-
cerns are addressed under Subchapter D,
Socioeconomic Programs, Part 23,
Environment, Conservation, Occupational
Safety, and Drug-Free Workplace.
  The FAR changes consolidate numer-
ous environmental purchasing require-
ments previously issued in laws,
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FAR Revisions
                •;    " v
     The changeVto the
     FAR consolidate the
     following.federal  envi,-*
     ronmental purchasing
     requirements:
      • Resource
       Conservation and
       Recovery Act (RCRA),
       as amended.
      • Executive Order
       12873 on Federal
       Acquisition,
       Recycling, and
       Waste Prevention.
      • Executive Order
       12902 on Energy
       Efficiency and
       Water Conservation
       at Federal Facilities.
      • Office of Federal
       Procurement Policy
       (OFPP) Policy Letter
       92-4 on
       Procurement of
       Environmentally-
       Sound and Energy-
       Efficient Products
       and Services.
   For additional information, consult
   the August 22, 1997 Federal Register
   (volume 62, number 163, pages
   44809-44813). The Federal Register
   is available online
   http://www.access.gpo.gav/su_docs/
   aces/acesl40.html.
   If additional clarification is neces-
   sary contact Ralph De Stefano with the
   General Services Administration at
   202 501-1758 and cite FAC 97-01,
   FAR case 92-054A.
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  executive orders, and policy directives.
.* (-See "FAR Revisions" sidebar.) Federal
• ^purchasing officials now have a single
• ^Veference that describes their responsibil-
  ities, for including the environment in
. their, purchasing decisions.
    Many of the FAR revisions address the
° buy-recycled requirements of the
  Resource Conservation and Recovery
  Act, Section 6002 and Executive Order
  12873. Since 1984,  federal agencies
  have been required to buy recycled con-
  tent products designated by EPA. These
  buy-recycled requirements are now
  spelled out in greater detail, incorporat-
  ing language from EPA's Comprehensive
  Procurement Guideline.
    The FAR changes, however, go well
  beyond recycled content requirements
  by institutionalizing environmental pur-
  chasing considerations  throughout the
  procurement and contracting process.
  For example, agencies are now required
  to "...prepare product descriptions to
  achieve maximum practicable use of
  recovered materials, other materials that
  are environmentally preferable, and
  products  that are energy-efficient."
    Agencies also are required to "consider
  environmental objectives in every source
  selection,  when appropriate." The FAR
  states that "these considerations may be
  expressed in terms such as resource or
  energy conservation, pollution prevention,
  waste minimization, and recovered mater-
            ial content."
                 Key environnteu'tal terms
            for use in federal contracts". '
            also have been added-to tjie.
            FAR. "Postconsumejfnatai--
            al," "virginmaterial'' 'Brecon'-,"
            ditioned," "remanufacturecij1. •
            "pollution preventictn,* ahd
            even the word "new"°are
             defined for use in contracts
             lor goods and services sup-
             plied to the government. •
       Excerpt  From the
         New FAR Text

 FAR policy now explicitly directs
 agencies to  establish a preference
 for environmentally preferable prod-
 ucts, as shown in the section
 reprinted  below:
                             •  .'
 Part 23.704 Policy
                           •  .
 (a) Agencies shall implement cos.f-   •
 effective contracting preference*prq-
 grams favoring the acquisition Of • "• ,
 environmentally preferable and
 energy-efficient produc£s'-arid>"$Qr-; "^
 vices, and shall employ-acquisition
 strategies that affirmatively imple-'"
 ment the  objectives  in paragraph
 (b) of this section.
 (b) The following environmental
 objectives shall be addressed
 throughout  the acquisition process:
 (1) Obtaining products and services
 considered to  be environmentally
 preferable (based on EPA-issued
 guidance).
 (2) Obtaining products considered
 to be energy-efficient; i.e., products
 that are in the upper 25  percent of
 energy-efficiency for all  similar  prod-
 ucts, or products that are at least
 10 percent more efficient than  the
 minimum level that meets federal
 standards (see Executive Order
 12902, Section  507).
 (3) Eliminating or reducing the gen-
 eratiqp of hazardous waste and the
 netdfor special material processing
 (including special handling, storage,
 treatment, and disposal).
 ,(4) Promoting  the use of nonhaz-
• ardous and  recovered materials.
     •
 (5) Realizing life-cycle cost savings.
 "«.'-••
 (6) Promoting  cost-effective waste
 reduction when creating plans,
 drawings, specifications,  standards,
 and other product descriptions
 authorizing  material  substitutions,
 extensions of shelf-life, and process
 improvements.

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conference was "very informative and
extremely well set-up for networking
and information exchange." He
described it as "a very enjoyable experi-
ence,  despite the nine hour drive."
  The conference included 18 sessions
divided  into six areas of interest:
Business Opportunities for
Environmental Entrepreneurs, Laws
and Regulations, Green Purchasing in
Practice, EPP Tools and Resources,
Partnerships, and Green Buildings.  The
session formats varied from lectures,
question and answer panels, audience
dialogues, and facilitated discussions.
  The symposium also provided a valu-
able opportunity for manufacturers and
vendors to talk  directly with federal
procurement officials.  Procurement offi-
cials heard about the challenges facing
small  and medium sized companies as
they attempt to market products with
environmental attributes to the federal
government. The manufacturers and
vendors learned about some of the  con-
straints facing federal buyers and cre-
ative ways in which other's have
navigated the complex federal procure-
ment  environment.
  "I was impressed by the fact that I
was encouraged to stand up and tell
the 450 people  who attended what
frustrated me about my dealings with
the government on my [government]
contract," explained Greg Barber, a
conference participant.
"This  was a no holds
barred 'group therapy' for both the
vendors and the government. With this
type of attitude, it's obvious to me that
progress is imminent."
  Fran McPoland, the Federal
Environmental Executive, promised to
use her position and  the information
she gathered at the conference to fur-
ther advance environmentally prefer-
able purchasing throughout the federal
government. She described the sympo-
sium as "an integral building
block in our efforts to promote
the increase and maintenance of
markets for environmentally
preferable commercial products in
the federal government."
  John Shoaff, an EPP Program
staff member and one of the
conference organizers, was "pleas-
antly surprised at the level of par-
ticipation  and the diversity of
what is already going on: we saw
lots of activities in the private sec-
tor and in government that show
how many people are thinking about
these issues and considering multiple
environmental attributes in purchasing
decisions. Tills speaks well for the
future success of EPP."
  The symposium minutes,  attendee
list, and networking notes are available
from the EPP Program's web page at
http://vmw.epa.gav/opptintr/epp. •
"Very  informative
and extremely well
set-up for
networking and
information
exchange."
                                              The EPP Program
                                              unveiled its new booth
                                              at the "Greening
                                              Federal Purchasing"
                                              symposium in
                                              Baltimore, Maryland. It
                                              is used to promote
                                              environmentally prefer-
                                              able purchasing and to
                                              distribute  EPP publica-
                                              tions. The booth has
                                              been seen recently at
                                              P2 Week festivities in
                                              Washington, DC, and
                                              at the National
                                              Recycling Coalition's
                                              conference in Orlando,
                                              Florida. Look for it at
                                              upcoming conferences
                                              in your area.

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           BEES  Software
The BEES software
presents users with
overall performance
scores for the prod-
ucts being compared
based on weights set
by users for each
product's economic
and environmental
performance data.
Individuals using the
BEES software can
select the relative
importance for each
of the six environ-
mental impact cate-
gories included in the
software: global
warming, acidifica-
tion, nitrification,
natural resource
depletion, indoor air
quality, and solid
waste. The software
also allows the user
to select the relative
weights of the envi-
ronmental and eco-
nomic performance
scores when comput-
ing the overall perfor-
mance score for each
product.
                                 With support from the EPP
                                 Program, the National
                                 Institute of Standards and
                        Technology (NIST), has completed a
                        milestone in the development of its
                        Building for Environmental and
                        Economic Sustainability (BEES) soft-
                        ware. The "Beta" version of the software
                        was circulated for testing to more than
                        100 people this past summer. It is
                        designed to help users balance environ-
                        mental and economic concerns when
                        designing and constructing new build-
                        ings.



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  NIST's Building Environment
Division began the project in 1995 after
recognizing that building materials,
construction, and operation, including
raw materials extraction, building mate-
rial manufacture and transport, build-
ing use, and building-related waste
generation, can significantly impact the
environment. NIST decided to develop
a tool that would help mitigate negative
environmental impacts by identifying
building materials that properly balance
both environmental and cost concerns.
The result is the BEES decision-support
software, which incorporates a life-cycle
approach that considers the economic
and environmental impacts of numer-
                                        ous building materials.
                                         Economic performance is measured
                                        using a standard life-cycle costing
                                        approach and is based on published
                                        economic data. Environmental perfor-
                                        mance, which is more difficult to quan-
                                        tify, is computed using an evolving,
                                        multi-disciplinary approach called envi-
                                        ronmental life-cycle assessment (LCA).
                                        LCA is a popular tool because it
                                        attempts to quantify environmental
                                        impacts throughout a product's life-
                                        cycle across all environmental media
                                        (air, land, and water).

                                                       For additional
                                                       information,
                                                       contact Barbara
                                                       Lippiatt with NIST
                                                       at 301 975-6133 or via
                                                       e-mail at
                                                       blippiatt@nist.gov.
  The BEES software generates relative
environmental scores for building prod-
uct alternatives with a ranking system
based on U.S. average product data that
was compiled for use in the software.
The economic and environmental per-
formance scores are then combined into
an overall performance measure. •

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                      DOD's  "Green"   Parking  Lots
      The U.S.Department of Defense
      (DOD) maintains some of the
      world's largest buildings and
facilities. It also maintains some of the
largest surface parking lots. With help
from the EPP Program,  DOD is now
using products with enhanced environ-
mental attributes to repair and maintain
those parking lots.
  In June, DOD awarded a 5-year, $1
million per year contract to maintain
and repair the parking lots and access
roads at  four Washington, DC, area
facilities, including the Pentagon's 67
acres of  parking. The contract includes
several unique features to ensure that
the work not only meets all  price and
quality concerns, but also incorporates
the use of products with multiple envi-
ronmental attributes whenever feasible.
  As one of the first EPP pilot projects,
DOD teamed with EPA to help develop
its strategy for incorporating environ-
mental preferability into its contracting
process.  EPA recently released Paving
tine Road to Success,, a case study that
explains how DOD incorporated the
seven guiding principles outlined in
EPA's Guidance on Acquisition oj
Environmentally Preferable Products and
Services in the parking lot repair and
maintenance contract.
  The most innovative aspect of the con-
tract provides the contractor with a
financial incentive to use products with
the greatest number of beneficial envi-
   ronmental attributes. Contractors can
     earn a two percent price differen-
        tial for each environmental
        attribute. The attributes eligible
          for the price differential are
           identified in the contract,
           although the contractor
            can suggest additional
            attributes for any product
   required under the contract. The
contractor can also suggest changes in
construction practices that improve envi-
ronmental performance. If DOD
approves the changes, the contractor can
receive a price differential for using
them.
  In less than a month after beginning
work, D-M&S Inc., the Woodstock,
Maryland, contractor awarded the con-
tract, had already identified  several
products and a new process, all of
which appear to significantly improve
environmental quality while continuing
to meet or exceed DOD's mandatory
performance criteria. Gene Asher, D-
M&S's President, is very pleased with
the process for incorporating new envi-
ronmental attributes and is excited at
the opportunity to earn a  price differen-
tial for doing so.
  "We are really excited about  the pro-
ject," Asher explained. "Incorporating
environmentally friendly products is the
wave of the future and should help our
future business."
  Call EPA's Pollution Prevention
Information Clearinghouse at 202 260-
1023 or e-mail ppic@epamail.epa.gov
to order a copy of Paving the Road to
Success (EPA 742-R-97-007). For addi-
tional information, contact Ruth
Heikkinen with EPA's EPP Program at
202 260-1803 or via e-mail  at heikki-
nen.ruth@epamail.epa.gov or contact
Bob Cox with DOD at 703 693-3765 or
RCox@ccmail.gov.ref.osd.mil. •
Did you know

the federal

government

purchases more

than $200

billion worth of

goods and

services each

year?

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Recent  EPP  Publications
                  EPA recently published a new EPP
                  case study and two brochures
                  that provide valuable information
             for vendors interested in marketing
             environmental products.

               Paving the Road to Success—The
             Department of Defense's Parking Lot
             Repair and Maintenance Contract An
             Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
             Case Study (EPA 742-R-97-007)
             describes the Department of Defense's
             (DOD) efforts to incorporate environ-
             mental purchasing into a 5-year, $1
             million per year contract to repair the
             Pentagon's parking lots. For additional
             information, see the article on page 9.

               Selling Environmental Products to  (he
             Federal Government (EPA-742-K-9 7-002)
             helps companies—especially small to
             medium sized companies—better  target
             the federal consumer, the largest pur-
             chaser of goods and services in  the
             United States. This fold out poster
             brochure includes an outline of the
             guiding principals of the EPP Program,
             answers to frequently asked questions
             about selling environmental products to
the federal government, and helpful
hints on simplifying procedures for
marketing and selling to the federal
government. The poster also includes
an extensive reference section that lists
additional literature, contact names,
and phone numbers, as well as market-
ing information on the government's
largest purchasers.

  Environmental Marketing Claims: A
Message to Vendors from the EPA and the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (EPA-
744-F-97-005) discusses problems and
solutions regarding environmental
product claims made by manufacturers.
This tri-fold brochure offers suggestions
on how to avoid vague, misleading
claims and how to present consumers
with clear, accurate product informa-
tion. The FTC's Guides for the Use of
Environmental Marketing Claims are
summarized in the brochure, along
with a discussion on the content, pur-
pose, and enforcement of the guide-
lines. Also included are examples from
the FTC guidelines and how the guide-
lines can affect government purchasing. •
                  To order free copies of these publications, call EPA's Pollution Prevention
                Information Clearinghouse at 202 260-1023 or E-mail  ppic@epamail,epa.gov.
    EPA's Environmentally Preferable Guidance
    EPA identified seven guiding principles to help federal agencies incorporate environmental prefer-
    ability into their procurement practices. These principles were proposed in the Federal Register
    (FR) in EPA's Guidance on Acquisition of Environmentally Preferable Products and Services (60 FR
    50722):
    1) Consideration of environmental preferability should begin early in the acquisition process and
      be rooted in the ethic of pollution prevention, which strives to eliminate or reduce, up front,
      potential risks to human health and the environment.
    2) A product or service's environmental preferability is a function of multiple attributes.

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    New  EPP  Publications  Coming   Soon
         The EPP Program is in the process
         of documenting ongoing envi-
         ronmentally preferable purchas-
   ing efforts among local, state, and
   federal governments. The following
   case studies will be available in early
   1998:

   Local Government Case Study:
   City of Santa Monica
   Learn how Santa Monica, California,
   made its environmentally preferable
   purchasing goals a reality.  The city is
   purchasing a wide-range of products
   with environmentally preferable attrib-
   utes including cleaning products, alter-
   native-fuel vehicles, re-refined motor
   oil, less-toxic antifreeze, recycled paint,
   and a large variety of recycled paper
   and office supplies. Santa Monica has
   also adopted an Integrated Pest
   Management approach in city facilities
   to replace regular spraying of indoor
   pesticides.

   State Government Case Study:
   Commonwealth of Massachusetts
   Find out how the Commonwealth of
   Massachusetts increased its environmen-
   tally preferable purchasing efforts from
   $2 million to $21 million a year. An
   upcoming case study documents the his-
tory of Massachusetts' environmentally
preferable purchasing efforts, overviews
the Commonwealth's program, and
describes how Massachusetts evaluates
the environmental attributes of the prod-
ucts it buys.

Federal Government Case Study:
EPA's Construction Program
EPA is building a new headquarters
facility in Washington, DC, and a new
research laboratory and office complex
in Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina, that together will house over
8,000 EPA employees. A forthcoming
case study documents how EPA's envi-
ronmentally
preferable pur-
chasing practices
are ensuring that
both facilities pro-
tect indoor air
quality, maximize
    Additional Information
energy efficiency,
reduce water con-
sumption, incor-
porate the use of
environmentally
preferable building
materials, encourage alternative forms
of transportation, and promote pollu-
tion prevention during the construction
process. •
For additional information on these
and other EPP case studies, check the
EPP web page regularly
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp.
If you would like to suggest or partici-
pate in a case study,  please fill out the
form on the back of this newsletter.
3) Environmental preferability should reflect the life-cycle considerations of products and services
  to the extent feasible.
4) Environmental preferability should consider the scale (global versus local) and temporal
  reversibility aspects of a product or service's impact.
5) Environmental preferability should be tailored to local conditions where appropriate.
6) Environmental objectives of products or services should be a factor or subfactor in competition
  among vendors, when appropriate.
7) Agencies need to examine product attribute claims carefully. •

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                 NACo's  Environmentally  Preferable
                 Purchasing  Project
                                  The National Association of Counties
                                  (NACo), which represents all 3,000
                                  U.S. county governments, is pro-
                             moting environmentally preferable pur-
                             chasing throughout the United States. As
                             part of this activity, NACo is currently
                             recruiting counties and other local govern-
                             ments to participate in a series of EPP
                             demonstration projects.
                             Counties participating in the demonstra-
                             tion project will be asked to initiate or
                             expand their environmentally preferable
                             purchasing efforts in one or more of eight
                             different departments or product cate-
                             gories: automobile and heavy equipment;
                             cleaners; pesticides and lawn chemicals;
                             office supplies; paints; construction and
                             demolition; buildings design and energy
                             efficiency; and printing.
                             NACo will share ongoing results
                             throughout the duration of the pilot pro-
                             grams with anyone who is interested. In
                             addition, an advisory committee of local
                             elected officials, environmental staff
                             members, and procurement officials will
                             promote environmentally preferable pur-
                             chasing to NACo members.
 The Association is also developing a
 "starter kit" to encourage counties
 nationwide to adopt environmentally
 preferable purchasing practices. The kit
 will include a variety of documents and
 fact sheets to assist in local governments'
 involvement, including: a sample policy
 resolution; case studies highlighting suc-
 cessful efforts in urban, suburban and
 rural jurisdictions; recommendations for
 selecting a procurement area on which to
 focus; suggestions for selecting environ-
 mentally preferable goods; and a list of
 resources and contacts.
 NACo's environmentally preferable pur-
 chasing initiative is just one of several
 NACo environmental programs. NACo
 also assists counties and local govern-
 ments with radon and indoor air pollu-
 tants, coastal watershed management,
 and pollution prevention initiatives. For
 more information about NACo's environ-
 mentally preferable purchasing initiative
 or other pollution prevention activities,
 contact Naomi Friedman with NACo at
 202 942-4262 or via e-mail at nfried-
 ma@naco.org, or Tony Hayes at 202
 942-4247 or thayes@naco.org. n
                      A
                                        Green  Uncle  Sam
I represent good ol' Uncle Sam,
Uncle Sam I am.
We've decided to buy what's clean.
Our President told us we must be more green.
With the world's largest pocket book,
We must give products a second look!
A sacrifice in performance?, not necessarily,
Products can be greened ordinarily!
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    Cleaning  Products  Pilot  Project  Update
         The Cleaning Products Pilot
         Project was the first. EPP pilot
         project. It began in February
    1993 as a cooperative effort between
    the U.S. General Services
    Administration (GSA) and EPA to estab-
    lish a framework for comparing the
    environmental preferability of commer-
    cial cleaning products. As a part of that
    effort the GSA and EPA team developed
    an environmental attribute  matrix that
    allows purchasers to select  products
    that minimize local environmental
    impacts. The team's decision-making
    process and the original matrix were
    described in the February 1997
    Cleaning Products Pilot Project (EPA742-
    R-97-002) case study and the Cleaning
                  Products Pilot Project
                  Fact Sheet  (EPA742-F-
                     97-001).
                    \
                        Since that time,
                         the member's of
                          the pilot pro-
                          ject have con-
                          tinued to
                          promote their
                         findings.
                        Recent and
                       forthcoming activ-
                    ities include:
• Revised Cleaning Products Pilot
  Project Fact Sheet (EPA742-F-97-001)
  The fact sheet was reprinted in June
  1997 to correct and update some of
  the environmental attribute informa-
  tion included in the February ver-
  sion.

• Training Video
  EPA and the U.S. Postal Service
  (USPS) are finalizing a video entitled
  "Purchasing Environmentally
  Preferable Products." The video is
  introduced by Fran McPoland, the
  Federal Environmental Executive,
  and portrays Postal Service employ-
  ees using the cleaning products
  matrix to select products for their
  custodial staff. After its release, the
  video will become part of the nation-
  al USPS technical training program.

• Interactive Internet Tool
  The cleaning products matrix is being
  adapted as an interactive Internet site.
  In addition to including information
  on the pilot project, the web site will
  assist purchasers in selecting cleaning
  products based on their environmen-
  tal attributes. The site will be available
  at: htlp'J/www.epa.gav/opptiiitr/epp.m
Put your
purchasing
power to good
use. Select
products with
positive
environmental
attributes.
But how on earth can I tell what a Lorax might prefer?
To whom for such a decision can I  defer?
GSA and DLA offer supply catalogs to assist,
EPA and others will help add to the list.
Demand is stimulating all sorts of new information,
Government suppliers respond with  green formulations.
Be it by GSA Advantage or  my IMPAC card,
Environmental performance is not to be barred!
Resist the temptation of being a Grinch,
Buying green can be a cinch!
             Heed Uncle Sam's new found cry,
             Let's put our money where our mouth is when we buy!
             We all represent Uncle Sam,
             We can green him yes we can!
             I like Green Uncle Sam,
             Green Uncle Sam I am.

             With sincere apologies to Dr. Seuss. This poem was presented
             by Jim Aidala, EPA's Environmental Executive and Associate
             Assistant Administrator of the Office of Prevention, Pesticides,
             and Toxic Substances at the July 1997 EPP Symposium in
             Baltimore.

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          EPP  Pioneers
Environment
    Price
Performance
     EPP
      The EPP Program is getting ready to
      launch its new pilot initiative:
      "Pioneers in EPP." The Pioneers ini-
tiative \vill work to identify federal pur-
chasers who are interested in being the
"first out" in the consideration of multiple
environmental attributes in their day-to-
day purchasing  decisions. Established to
collect information on the most effective
and. easiest ways for all federal agencies to
conduct environmentally preferable pur-
chasing, the pilots represent an important
step towards broadscale implementation
of the EPP Program.
  The Pioneers initiative originated from
EPA's proposed Guidance on the
Acquisition of Environmentally Preferable
   Products and Services, which requests
         Executive agencies to select vol-
              untary pilot acquisitions or
                    demonstration pro-
                        jects to test out
                              the con-
cepts contained in the seven guiding prin-
ciples. Hence, the mission of Pioneers in
EPP is to both evaluate and implement the
seven guiding principles as well as to
advance the goals of the greater EPP effort.
  Through the end of 1997 and into 1998,
EPA will be seeking pilot projects that rep-
resent different product and service cate-
gories so that tried and true approaches to
environmentally preferable purchasing can
be documented and translated into tools
for federal purchasers to integrate into
their purchasing activities. Three Pioneers
are currently at work with EPA, represent-
ing cleaning products, latex paints, and
parking lot renovations. New Pioneers will
join the initiative by way of a customized
Memorandum  of Understanding that will
define the parameters of each mutually
beneficial project.
  If you are interested in becoming a
Pioneer in EPP or know of a federal col-
league who is, contact Eun-Sook Goidel
at goidel.eunsook@epamail.epa.gov or
Ruth Heikkinen at heikkinen.ruth@epa-
    mail.epa.gov, or fill out the form on
     the right. •

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     Tell Us  About Your  Environmentally
            Preferable Purchasing Efforts
Name:
Agency:
Position:
Phone: _
E-mail:
Current Efforts:
Please describe any current environmental purchasing initiatives within your agency that go
beyond recycled content. Be sure to include the scope of the initiative and identify the
product categories involved.
Has anyone documented these efforts in a case study?      U Yes       U No

Future Efforts:
Please describe opportunities to initiate or expand environmentally preferable purchasing
within your agency.
Would you like EPA's assistance with this effort?           Q Yes       U No

Please mail, fax, or e-mail your responses to:
Danielle Bartoni
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 M Street, SW. (7409)
Washington, DC 20460


Phone: 202 260-3553
Fax:   202 260-0178
E-mail: bartoni.danielle@epamail.epa.gov

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