EPP Overview
The U.S. Department of Energy Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program Handbook
serves as an overview and guidance to DOE program and field elements on EPP
as an integrated component of environmental management and
purchasing systems within DOE. The Handbook describes the
policies, guides, procedures, roles and responsibilities,
and reporting that comprise the EPP Program at DOE, and provides
links to relevant websites.
Policy
U.S. Department of Energy policy is to implement
the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which for
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing is to a) implement cost-effective
contracting preference programs promoting the purchase of alternative
fuels/vehicles, biobased/recycled-content, energy/water efficient,
non-ozone depleting, and other environmentally preferable products
and services as well as practice sustainable design and electronics
stewardship and (b) employ acquisition strategies that take life
cycle costing into account and affirmatively implement the environmental
objectives in the FAR
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Implementation of the policy is defined in the
Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation (DEAR),
Section 923 "Environment,
Conservation, Occupational Safety, and Drug-Free Workplace"
and DEAR 970.2304 and 970.2307
This page was last updated on July 23, 2008
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