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Appendix D: Examples of Federal Agency Procurement Systems and Green Purchasing Programs
Pages 55-60

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... 2 government-wide commercial purchase cards, convenience checks, or fleet cards issued by an authorized GSA contractor. USDA BioPreferred The USDA BioPreferred program promotes the increased program3 purchase and use of biobased products, which is expected to reduce petroleum consumption, increase the use of renewable resources, better manage the carbon cycle, and may contribute to reducing adverse environmental and health impacts.
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... Management Program7 supports federal agencies in identifying energy- and water-efficient products that meet federal acquisition requirements (FAR) , conserve energy, save taxpayer dollars, and reduce environmental impacts.
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... Procuring agencies are then required to purchase designated products with the highest recovered material content level practicable. Recovered Materials Advisory Notices provide purchasing guidance and recommend recovered and postconsumer material content levels for designated items.
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... provides technical resources and program sup port for NASA Headquarters Environmental Management Division. National Institutes of Health NIH Green Purchasing The NIH Green Purchasing Program involves the selection Program20 and acquisition of products and services that most effective ly minimize negative environmental impacts over their life cycle of manufacturing, transportation, use and recycling or disposal.
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... 59 APPENDIX D www.landandmaritime.dla.mil/programs/emall/ 4 http://sps.caci.com/ 5 6 https://dap.dau.mil/aphome/das/Pages/Default.aspx 7 www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/ 8 www.energystar.gov/ 9 http://energy.gov/management/downloads/pia-imanage-strategic-integrated-procurement enterprise-system-stripes 10 www.epa.gov/watersense/ 11 www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/cpg/about.htm 12 www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/index.htm 13 www.epa.gov/ozone/snap/ 14 www.gsaadvantage.gov 15 www.ebuy.gsa.gov 16 www.gsaglobalsupply.gsa.gov 17 www.gsa.gov/portal/content/198257 18 http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/nais/index.cgi 19 http://nasarecycles.nasa.gov/ 20 http://nems.nih.gov/programs/Pages/purchasing.aspx
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