Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 179 (Wednesday, September 16, 1998)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 49643-49651]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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Part II

The President

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Executive Order 13101--Greening the Government Through Waste

Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition

Presidential Documents

Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 179 / Wednesday, September 16, 1998 /

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Title 3--

The President

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Executive Order 13101 of September 14, 1998

Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention,

Recycling, and Federal Acquisition

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States of

America, including the Solid Waste Disposal Act, Public

Law 89-272, 79 Stat. 997, as amended by the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Public Law 94-

580, 90 Stat. 2795, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6901-6907),

section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in

order to improve the Federal Government's use of

recycled products and environmentally preferable

products and services, it is hereby ordered as follows:

PART 1--PREAMBLE

Section 101. Consistent with the demands of efficiency

and cost effectiveness, the head of each executive

agency shall incorporate waste prevention and recycling

in the agency's daily operations and work to increase

and expand markets for recovered materials through

greater Federal Government preference and demand for

such products. It is the national policy to prefer

pollution prevention, whenever feasible. Pollution that

cannot be prevented should be recycled; pollution that

cannot be prevented or recycled should be treated in an

environmentally safe manner. Disposal should be

employed only as a last resort.

Sec. 102. Consistent with policies established by the

Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Policy

Letter 92-4, agencies shall comply with executive

branch policies for the acquisition and use of

environmentally preferable products and services and

implement cost-effective procurement preference

programs favoring the purchase of these products and

services.

Sec. 103. This order creates a Steering Committee, a

Federal Environmental Executive (FEE), and a Task

Force, and establishes Agency Environmental Executive

(AEE) positions within each agency, to be responsible

for ensuring the implementation of this order. The FEE,

AEEs, and members of the Steering Committee and Task

Force shall be full-time Federal Government employees.

PART 2--DEFINITIONS

For purposes of this order:

Sec. 201. ``Environmentally preferable'' means products

or services that have a lesser or reduced effect on

human health and the environment when compared with

competing products or services that serve the same

purpose. This comparison may consider raw materials

acquisition, production, manufacturing, packaging,

distribution, reuse, operation, maintenance, or

disposal of the product or service.

Sec. 202. ``Executive agency'' or ``agency'' means an

executive agency as defined in 5 U.S.C. 105. For the

purpose of this order, military departments, as defined

in 5 U.S.C. 102, are covered under the auspices of the

Department of Defense.

Sec. 203. ``Postconsumer material'' means a material or

finished product that has served its intended use and

has been discarded for disposal or recovery, having

completed its life as a consumer item. ``Postconsumer

material'' is a part of the broader category of

``recovered material.''

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Sec. 204. ``Acquisition'' means the acquiring by

contract with appropriated funds for supplies or

services (including construction) by and for the use of

the Federal Government through purchase or lease,

whether the supplies or services are already in

existence or must be created, developed, demonstrated,

and evaluated. Acquisition begins at the point when

agency needs are established and includes the

description of requirements to satisfy agency needs,

solicitation and selection of sources, award of

contracts, contract financing, contract performance,

contract administration, and those technical and

management functions directly related to the process of

fulfilling agency needs by contract.

Sec. 205. ``Recovered materials'' means waste materials

and by-products that have been recovered or diverted

from solid waste, but such term does not include those

materials and by-products generated from, and commonly

reused within, an original manufacturing process (42

U.S.C. 6903 (19)).

Sec. 206. ``Recyclability'' means the ability of a

product or material to be recovered from, or otherwise

diverted from, the solid waste stream for the purpose

of recycling.

Sec. 207. ``Recycling'' means the series of activities,

including collection, separation, and processing, by

which products or other materials are recovered from

the solid waste stream for use in the form of raw

materials in the manufacture of new products other than

fuel for producing heat or power by combustion.

Sec. 208. ``Waste prevention'' means any change in the

design, manufacturing, purchase, or use of materials or

products (including packaging) to reduce their amount

or toxicity before they are discarded. Waste prevention

also refers to the reuse of products or materials.

Sec. 209. ``Waste reduction'' means preventing or

decreasing the amount of waste being generated through

waste prevention, recycling, or purchasing recycled and

environmentally preferable products.

Sec. 210. ``Life cycle cost'' means the amortized

annual cost of a product, including capital costs,

installation costs, operating costs, maintenance costs,

and disposal costs discounted over the lifetime of the

product.

Sec. 211. ``Life cycle assessment'' means the

comprehensive examination of a product's environmental

and economic aspects and potential impacts throughout

its lifetime, including raw material extraction,

transportation, manufacturing, use, and disposal.

Sec. 212. ``Pollution prevention'' means ``source

reduction'' as defined in the Pollution Prevention Act

of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 13102), and other practices that

reduce or eliminate the creation of pollutants through:

(a) increased efficiency in the use of raw materials,

energy, water, or other resources; or (b) protection of

natural resources by conservation.

Sec. 213. ``Biobased product'' means a commercial or

industrial product (other than food or feed) that

utilizes biological products or renewable domestic

agricultural (plant, animal, and marine) or forestry

materials.

Sec. 214. ``Major procuring agencies'' shall include

any executive agency that procures over $50 million per

year of goods and services.

PART 3--THE ROLES AND DUTIES OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE,

FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXECUTIVE, TASK FORCE, AND AGENCY

ENVIRONMENTAL EXECUTIVES

Sec. 301. Committees, Executives, and Task Force. (a)

Steering Committee. There is hereby established a

Steering Committee on Greening the Government through

Waste Prevention and Recycling (``Steering

Committee''). The Steering Committee shall be composed

of the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality

(CEQ), the Federal Environmental Executive (FEE), and

the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy

(OFPP). The Steering Committee, which shall be chaired

by the Chair of the CEQ, is directed to charter a Task

Force to facilitate implementation of this order, and

shall provide the Task Force with policy direction in

such implementation.

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(b) Federal Environmental Executive. A Federal

Environmental Executive, Environmental Protection

Agency, shall be designated by the President. The FEE

shall chair the Task Force described in subsection (c),

take all actions necessary to ensure that the agencies

comply with the requirements of this order, and

generate a biennial report to the President.

(c) Task Force. The Steering Committee shall

charter a Task Force on Greening the Government through

Waste Prevention and Recycling (``Task Force''), which

shall be chaired by the FEE and composed of staff from

the major procuring agencies. The Steering Committee,

in consultation with the agencies, shall determine the

necessary staffing and resources for the Task Force.

The major procuring agencies shall provide, to the

extent practicable and permitted by law, resources and

support to the Task Force and the FEE, upon request

from the Steering Committee. The Task Force shall have

the duty of assisting the FEE and the agencies in

implementing this order, subject to policy direction

provided by the Steering Committee. The Task Force

shall report through the FEE to the Chair of the

Steering Committee.

(d) Agency Environmental Executives (AEEs). Within

90 days after the date of this order, the head of each

major procuring agency shall designate an AEE from

among his or her staff, who serves at a level no lower

than the Assistant Secretary level or equivalent, and

shall notify the Chair of CEQ and the FEE of such

designation.

Sec. 302. Duties. (a) The Federal Environmental

Executive. The FEE, working through the Task Force, and

in consultation with the AEEs, shall:

(1) Develop a Government-wide Waste Prevention and

Recycling Strategic Plan (``Strategic Plan'') to

further implement this order. The Strategic Plan should

be initially developed within 180 days of the date of

this order and revised as necessary thereafter. The

Strategic Plan should include, but is not limited to,

the following elements:

(a) direction and initiatives for acquisition of

recycled and recyclable products and environmentally

preferable products and services;

(b) development of affirmative procurement programs;

(c) review and revision of standards and product

specifications;

(d) assessment and evaluation of compliance;

(e) reporting requirements;

(f) outreach programs to promote adoption of practices

endorsed in this order; and

(g) development and implementation of new technologies

that are of environmental significance.

(2) Prepare a biennial report to the President on

the actions taken by the agencies to comply with this

order. The report also may incorporate information from

existing agency reports regarding Government-wide

progress in implementing the following Executive

Orders: 12843, Procurement Requirements and Policies

for Federal Agencies for Ozone Depleting Substances;

13031, Federal Alternative Fueled Vehicle Leadership;

12845, Requiring Agencies to Purchase Energy Efficient

Computer Equipment; 12856, Federal Compliance with

Right-to-Know Laws and Pollution Prevention

Requirements; 12902, Energy Efficiency and Water

Conservation at Federal Facilities; and 12969, Federal

Acquisition and Community Right-to-Know.

(3) In coordination with the Office of Federal

Procurement Policy, the Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA), the General Services Administration (GSA), and

the Department of Agriculture (USDA), convene a group

of acquisition/procurement managers and environmental

State, and local government managers to work with State

and local governments to improve the Federal, State,

and local governments' use of recycled products and

environmentally preferable products and services.

(4) Coordinate appropriate Government-wide

education and training programs for agencies.

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(5) Establish committees and work groups, as

needed, to identify, assess, and recommend actions to

be taken to fulfill the goals, responsibilities, and

initiatives of the FEE. As these committees and work

groups are created, agencies are requested to designate

appropriate personnel in the areas of procurement and

acquisition, standards and specifications, electronic

commerce, facilities management, pollution prevention,

waste prevention, recycling, and others as needed to

staff and work on these initiatives. An initial group

shall be established to develop recommendations for

tracking and reporting requirements, taking into

account the costs and benefits of such tracking and

reporting. The Steering Committee shall consult with

the AEEs before approving these recommendations.

(b) Agency Environmental Executives. The AEEs

shall:

(1) translate the Government-wide Strategic Plan

into specific agency and service plans;

(2) implement the specific agency and service

plans;

(3) report to the FEE on the progress of plan

implementation;

(4) work with the FEE and the Task Force in

furthering implementation of this order; and

(5) track agencies' purchases of EPA-designated

guideline items and report agencies' purchases of such

guideline items to the FEE per the recommendations

developed in subsection 302(a)(5) of this order. Agency

acquisition and procurement personnel shall justify in

writing to the file and to the AEE the rationale for

not purchasing such items, above the micropurchase

threshold (as set out in the Office of Federal

Procurement Policy Act at 41 U.S.C. 428), and submit a

plan and timetable for increasing agency purchases of

the designated item(s).

(6) one year after a product is placed on the USDA

Biobased Products List, estimate agencies' purchases of

products on the list and report agencies' estimated

purchases of such products to the Secretary of

Agriculture.

PART 4--ACQUISITION PLANNING, AFFIRMATIVE PROCUREMENT

PROGRAMS, AND FEDERAL FACILITY COMPLIANCE

Sec. 401. Acquisition Planning. In developing plans,

drawings, work statements, specifications, or other

product descriptions, agencies shall consider, as

appropriate, a broad range of factors including:

elimination of virgin material requirements; use of

biobased products; use of recovered materials; reuse of

product; life cycle cost; recyclability; use of

environmentally preferable products; waste prevention

(including toxicity reduction or elimination); and

ultimate disposal. These factors should be considered

in acquisition planning for all procurement and in the

evaluation and award of contracts, as appropriate.

Program and acquisition managers should take an active

role in these activities.

Sec. 402. Affirmative Procurement Programs. (a) The

head of each executive agency shall develop and

implement affirmative procurement programs in

accordance with section 6002 of RCRA (42 U.S.C. 6962)

and this order and consider use of the procurement

tools and methods described in 7 U.S.C. 5909. Agencies

shall ensure that responsibilities for preparation,

implementation, and monitoring of affirmative

procurement programs are shared between the program

personnel and acquisition and procurement personnel.

For the purposes of all purchases made pursuant to this

order, EPA, in consultation with such other executive

agencies as appropriate, shall endeavor to maximize

environmental benefits, consistent with price,

performance, and availability considerations, and

constraints imposed by law, and shall adjust

solicitation guidelines as necessary in order to

accomplish this goal.

(b) Agencies shall establish affirmative

procurement programs for all EPA-designated guideline

items purchased by their agency. For newly designated

items, agencies shall revise their internal programs

within 1 year from the date the EPA designated the new

items.

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(c) Exclusive of the biobased products described in

section 504, for the EPA-designated guideline items,

which are contained in 40 CFR part 247, and for all

future designated guideline items, agencies shall

ensure that their affirmative procurement programs

require 100 percent of their purchases of products to

meet or exceed the EPA guideline unless written

justification is provided that a product is not

available competitively within a reasonable time frame,

does not meet appropriate performance standards, or is

only available at an unreasonable price. Written

justification is not required for purchases below the

micropurchase threshold. For micropurchases, agencies

shall provide guidance regarding purchase of EPA-

designated guideline items. This guidance should

encourage consideration of aggregating purchases when

this method would promote economy and efficiency.

(d) Within 90 days after the date of this order,

the head of each executive agency that has not

implemented an affirmative procurement program shall

ensure that the affirmative procurement program has

been established and is being implemented to the

maximum extent practicable.

Sec. 403. Federal Facility Compliance. (a) Within 6

months of the date of this order, the Administrator of

the EPA shall, in consultation with the Federal

Environmental Executive, prepare guidance for use in

determining Federal facility compliance with section

6002 of RCRA and the related requirements of this

order.

(b) EPA inspections of Federal facilities conducted

pursuant to RCRA and the Federal Facility Compliance

Act and EPA ``multi-media'' inspections carried out at

Federal facilities will include, where appropriate,

evaluation of facility compliance with section 6002 of

RCRA and any implementing guidance.

(c) Where inspections of Federal facilities are

carried out by authorized States pursuant to RCRA and

the Federal Facility Compliance Act, the Administrator

of the EPA will encourage those States to include

evaluation of facility compliance with section 6002 of

RCRA in light of EPA guidance prepared pursuant to

subsection (a), where appropriate, similar to

inspections performed by the EPA. The EPA may provide

information and technical assistance to the States to

enable them to include such considerations in their

inspection.

(d) The EPA shall report annually to the Federal

Environmental Executive on the results of inspections

performed by the EPA to determine Federal facility

compliance with section 6002 of RCRA not later than

February 1st for those inspections conducted during the

previous fiscal year.

PART 5--STANDARDS, SPECIFICATIONS, AND DESIGNATION OF

ITEMS

Sec. 501. Specifications, Product Descriptions, and

Standards. When developing, reviewing, or revising

Federal and military specifications, product

descriptions (including commercial item descriptions),

and standards, executive agencies shall consider

recovered materials and any environmentally preferable

purchasing criteria developed by the EPA, and ensure

the criteria are complied with in developing or

revising standards. Agencies shall report annually to

the FEE on their compliance with this section for

incorporation into the biennial report to the President

referred to in section 302(a)(2) of this order. (a) If

an inconsistency with section 6002 of RCRA or this

order is identified in a specification, standard, or

product description, the FEE shall request that the

Environmental Executive of the pertinent agency advise

the FEE as to why the specification cannot be revised

or submit a plan for revising it within 60 days.

(b) If an agency is able to revise an inconsistent

specification but cannot do so within 60 days, it is

the responsibility of that AEE to monitor and implement

the plan for revising it.

Sec. 502. Designation of Items that Contain Recovered

Materials. In order to expedite the process of

designating items that are or can be made with

recovered materials, the EPA shall use the following

process for designating these items in accordance with

section 6002(e) of RCRA. (a) The EPA shall designate

items that are or can be made with recovered material,

by promul-

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gating amendments to the Comprehensive Procurement

Guideline (CPG). The CPG shall be updated every 2 years

or as appropriate after an opportunity for public

comment.

(b) Concurrent with the issuance of the CPG, the

EPA shall publish for comment in the Federal Register

Recovered Materials Advisory Notices that present the

range of recovered materials content levels within

which the designated items are currently available.

These levels shall be updated periodically, after

opportunity for public comment, to reflect changes in

market conditions.

(c) Once items containing recovered materials have

been designated by the EPA in the CPG, agencies shall

modify their affirmative procurement programs to

require that, to the maximum extent practicable, their

purchases of products meet or exceed the EPA guidelines

unless written justification is provided that a product

is not available competitively, not available within a

reasonable time frame, does not meet appropriate

performance standards, or is only available at an

unreasonable price.

Sec. 503. Guidance on Acquisition of Environmentally

Preferable Products and Services. (a) The EPA shall

develop guidance within 90 days from the date of this

order to address environmentally preferable purchasing.

The guidance may be based on the EPA's September 1995

Proposed Guidance on the Acquisition of Environmentally

Preferable Products and Services and comments received

thereon. The guidance should be designed for

Government-wide use and targeted towards products and

services that have the most effect. The guidance may

also address the issues of use of the technical

expertise of nongovernmental entities and tools such as

life cycle assessment in decisions on environmentally

preferable purchasing. The EPA shall update this

guidance every 2 years, or as appropriate.

(b) Agencies are encouraged to immediately test and

evaluate the principles and concepts contained in the

EPA's Guidance on the Acquisition of Environmentally

Preferable Products and Services through pilot projects

to provide practical information to the EPA for further

updating of the guidance. Specifically:

(1) These pilot projects shall be focused around

those product and service categories, including

printing, that have wide use within the Federal

Government. Priorities regarding which product and

service categories to pilot shall be developed by the

individual agencies and the EPA, in consultation with

the OFPP, the FEE, and the appropriate agency

procurement executives. Any policy disagreements shall

be resolved by the Steering Committee.

(2) Agencies are encouraged to use all of the

options available to them to determine the

environmentally preferable attributes of products and

services in their pilot and demonstration projects,

including the use of technical expertise of

nongovernmental entities such as labeling,

certification, or standards-developing organizations,

as well as using the expertise of the National

Institute of Standards and Technology.

(3) Upon request and to the extent practicable, the

EPA shall assist executive agencies in designing,

implementing, and documenting the results of these

pilot and demonstration projects.

(4) The EPA, in coordination with other executive

agencies, shall develop a database of information about

these projects, including, but not limited to, the

number and status of pilot projects, examples of

agencies' policy directives, revisions to

specifications, solicitation procedures, and grant/

contract policies that facilitate adoption of

environmentally preferable purchasing practices, to be

integrated on a commonly available electronic medium

(e.g., Internet Web site). These data are to be

reported to the FEE.

(c) Executive agencies shall use the principles and

concepts in the EPA Guidance on Acquisition of

Environmentally Preferable Products and Services, in

addition to the lessons from the pilot and

demonstration projects, to the maximum extent

practicable, in identifying and purchasing environ-

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mentally preferable products and services and shall

modify their procurement programs as appropriate.

Sec. 504. Designation of Biobased Items by the USDA.

The USDA Biobased Products Coordination Council shall,

in consultation with the FEE, issue a Biobased Products

List. (a) The Biobased Products List shall be published

in the Federal Register by the USDA within 180 days

after the date of this order and shall be updated

biannually after publication to include additional

items.

(b) Once the Biobased Products List has been

published, agencies are encouraged to modify their

affirmative procurement program to give consideration

to those products.

Sec. 505. Minimum Content Standard for Printing and

Writing Paper. Executive agency heads shall ensure that

their agencies meet or exceed the following minimum

materials content standards when purchasing or causing

the purchase of printing and writing paper: (a) For

high speed copier paper, offset paper, forms bond,

computer printout paper, carbonless paper, file

folders, white wove envelopes, writing and office

paper, book paper, cotton fiber paper, and cover stock,

the minimum content standard shall be no less than 30

percent postconsumer materials beginning December 31,

1998. If paper containing 30 percent postconsumer

material is not reasonably available, does not meet

reasonable performance requirements, or is only

available at an unreasonable price, then the agency

shall purchase paper containing no less than 20 percent

postconsumer material. The Steering Committee, in

consultation with the AEEs, may revise these levels if

necessary.

(b) As an alternative to meeting the standards in

sections 505(a), for all printing and writing papers,

the minimum content standard shall be no less than 50

percent recovered materials that are a waste material

byproduct of a finished product other than a paper or

textile product that would otherwise be disposed of in

a landfill, as determined by the State in which the

facility is located.

(c) Effective January 1, 1999, no executive branch

agency shall purchase, sell, or arrange for the

purchase of, printing and writing paper that fails to

meet the minimum requirements of this section.

Sec. 506. Revision of Brightness Specifications and

Standards. The GSA and other executive agencies are

directed to identify, evaluate, and revise or eliminate

any standards or specifications unrelated to

performance that present barriers to the purchase of

paper or paper products made by production processes

that minimize emissions of harmful byproducts. This

evaluation shall include a review of unnecessary

brightness and stock clause provisions, such as lignin

content and chemical pulp requirements. The GSA shall

complete the review and revision of such specifications

within 6 months after the date of this order, and shall

consult closely with the Joint Committee on Printing

during such process. The GSA shall also compile any

information or market studies that may be necessary to

accomplish the objectives of this provision.

Sec. 507. Procurement of Re-refined Lubricating Oil and

Retread Tires. (a) Agencies shall implement the EPA

procurement guidelines for re-refined lubricating oil

and retread tires. Fleet and commodity managers shall

take immediate steps, as appropriate, to procure these

items in accordance with section 6002 of RCRA. This

provision does not preclude the acquisition of biobased

(e.g., vegetable) oils.

(b) The FEE shall work to educate executive

agencies about the new Department of Defense

Cooperative Tire Qualification Program, including the

Cooperative Approval Tire List and Cooperative Plant

Qualification Program, as they apply to retread tires.

PART 6--AGENCY GOALS AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Sec. 601. Agency Goals. (a)(1) Each agency shall

establish either a goal for solid waste prevention and

a goal for recycling or a goal for solid waste

diversion to be achieved by January 1, 2000. Each

agency shall further

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ensure that the established goals include long-range

goals to be achieved by the years 2005 and 2010. These

goals shall be submitted to the FEE within 180 days

after the date of this order. (2) In addition to white

paper, mixed paper/cardboard, aluminum, plastic, and

glass, agencies should incorporate into their recycling

programs efforts to recycle, reuse, or refurbish

pallets and collect toner cartridges for

remanufacturing. Agencies should also include programs

to reduce or recycle, as appropriate, batteries, scrap

metal, and fluorescent lamps and ballasts.

(b) Agencies shall set goals to increase the

procurement of products that are made with recovered

materials, in order to maximize the number of recycled

products purchased, relative to non-recycled

alternatives.

(c) Each agency shall set a goal for increasing the

use of environmentally preferable products and services

for those products and services for which the agency

has completed a pilot program.

(d) Agencies are encouraged to incorporate into

their Government Performance Results Act annual

performance plans the goals listed in subsections (a),

(b), and (c) above, starting with the submittal to the

Office of Management and Budget of the plan

accompanying the FY 2001 budget.

(e) Progress on attaining these goals should be

reported by the agencies to the FEE for the biennial

report specified in section 302(a)(2) of this order.

PART 7--APPLICABILITY AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Sec. 701. Contractor Applicability. Contracts that

provide for contractor operation of a Government-owned

or -leased facility and/or contracts that provide for

contractor or other support services at Government-

owned or -operated facilities awarded by executive

agencies after the date of this order, shall include

provisions that obligate the contractor to comply with

the requirements of this order within the scope of its

operations.

Sec. 702. Real Property Acquisition and Management.

Within 90 days after the date of this order, and to the

extent permitted by law and where economically

feasible, executive agencies shall ensure compliance

with the provisions of this order in the acquisition

and management of Federally owned and leased space. The

GSA and other executive agencies shall also include

environmental and recycling provisions in the

acquisition and management of all leased space and in

the construction of new Federal buildings.

Sec. 703. Retention of Funds. (a) The Administrator of

General Services shall continue with the program that

retains for the agencies the proceeds from the sale of

materials recovered through recycling or waste

prevention programs and specifying the eligibility

requirements for the materials being recycled.

(b) Agencies in non-GSA managed facilities, to the

extent permitted by law, should develop a plan to

retain the proceeds from the sale of materials

recovered through recycling or waste prevention

programs.

Sec. 704. Model Facility Programs. Each executive

agency shall establish a model demonstration program

incorporating some or all of the following elements as

appropriate. Agencies are encouraged to demonstrate and

test new and innovative approaches such as

incorporating environmentally preferable and bio-based

products; increasing the quantity and types of products

containing recovered materials; expanding collection

programs; implementing source reduction programs;

composting organic materials when feasible; and

exploring public/private partnerships to develop

markets for recovered materials.

Sec. 705. Recycling Programs. (a)(1) Each executive

agency that has not already done so shall initiate a

program to promote cost-effective waste prevention and

recycling of reusable materials in all of its

facilities. The recycling programs implemented pursuant

to this section must be compatible with applicable

State and local recycling requirements.

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(2) Agencies shall designate a recycling

coordinator for each facility or installation. The

recycling coordinator shall implement or maintain waste

prevention and recycling programs in the agencies'

action plans.

(b) Executive agencies shall also consider

cooperative ventures with State and local governments

to promote recycling and waste reduction in the

community.

Sec. 706. Review of Implementation. The President's

Council on Integrity and Efficiency shall request that

the Inspectors General periodically review agencies'

implementation of this order.

PART 8--AWARENESS

Sec. 801. Training. (a) Within 180 days of the date of

this order, the FEE and OFPP should evaluate the

training courses provided by the Federal Acquisition

Institute and the Defense Acquisition University and

recommend any appropriate curriculum changes to ensure

that procurement officials are aware of the

requirements of this order.

(b) Executive agencies shall provide training to

program management and requesting activities as needed

to ensure awareness of the requirements of this order.

Sec. 802. Internal Agency Awards Programs. Each agency

shall develop an internal agency-wide awards program,

as appropriate, to reward its most innovative

environmental programs. Among others, winners of

agency-wide awards will be eligible for the White House

Awards Program.

Sec. 803. White House Awards Program. A Government-wide

award will be presented annually by the White House to

the best, most innovative programs implementing the

objectives of this order to give greater visibility to

these efforts so that they can be incorporated

Government-wide. The White House Awards Program will be

administered jointly by the FEE and the CEQ.

PART 9--REVOCATION, LIMITATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION

Sec. 901. Executive Order 12873 of October 20, 1993, is

hereby revoked.

Sec. 902. This order is intended only to improve the

internal management of the executive branch and is not

intended to create any right, benefit, or trust

responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable

at law by a party against the United States, its

agencies, its officers, or any other person.

Sec. 903. The policies and direction expressed in the

EPA guidance to be developed pursuant to section 503 of

this order shall be implemented and incorporated in the

Federal Acquisition Regulation within 180 days after

issuance of the guidance.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 14, 1998.

[FR Doc. 98-25023

Filed 9-15-98; 11:21 am]

Billing code 3195-01-P