SUBPART 223.4--USE OF RECOVERED MATERIALS
223.404 Procedures.
223.404 Procedures.
(b)(3) A contract for an EPA designated item that does not meet the EPA minimum recovered material standards shall not be awarded before approval of the written determination required by FAR 23.404(b)(3). The approving official shall be—
(A) A general or flag officer, or a member of the Senior Executive Service, of the requiring activity; or
(B) For requiring activities without a general or flag officer or member of the Senior Executive Service, the commander of the activity.
(4) Departments
and agencies shall centrally collect information submitted in accordance with
the clause at FAR 52.223-9 for reporting to the cognizant activity in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense.