Exhibit 3 - Environmental Requirements.pdf

EXHIBIT 3

Environmental Requirements

In September, 1998, the President issued Executive Order 13101, Greening the Government through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition. Accordingly, this solicitation requires that offerors identify which products, supplies, and materials used under this contract will contain recycled content, as mandated by Section 6002 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery, Act (RCRA). The recycled content products designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be preferable to virgin product content alternatives are designated through EPA's publication of the Comprehensive Procurement Guideline("CPG"). Finally, offerors are being asked to address federal recycling mandates by proposing a strategy to manage and enhance waste minimization and recycling within the Parklawn Building and Daycare center.

Recyclable Containers/Minimization of Non-Recyclable Waste: In order to minimize the generation of solid waste, the Department prefers that chemical cleaning products, and, where reasonable, newly delivered cleaning equipment and machinery, be packaged in recyclable or reusable containers and that offerors examine ways of otherwise minimizing non-recyclable waste. Such means may include use of refillable product distribution devices and/or concentrates. Offerors are asked to identify for each product offered (a) whether the container can be sent back to the product distributor or manufacturer for reuse and/or (b) whether the container is made of readily recyclable material (e.g., glass, aluminum, steel, or PETE-1 or HDPE-2 plastics). Furthermore, offerors are actively encouraged to ensure that products use no, or only a minimal amount of, polypropylene and/or polystyrene ("Styrofoam") packaging or similar non-recyclable, non-biodegradable packaging. Manufacturer literature clearly depicting the product packaging and/or noting a conscious effort to reduce such packaging may be helpful. Offerors are encouraged to describe such strategies in their "Waste Minimization and Recycling Strategy" submission.

Recycled Content Products -- Mandatory Characteristics: As required by Section 6002 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Department must procure items composed of the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable. Standards for minimum recycled content are codified in the Comprehensive Procurement Guide (CPG). Offerors must identify what specific brand of product is proposed for use under this contract in each of five (5) product categories listed below. The offered products must meet each of the following Mandatory Characteristics or the offeror risks its proposal being eliminated from further consideration:

Bathroom tissue: The bathroom tissue must contain at least 100% recovered materials and 50% postconsumer content.

Toilet Seat Covers: Toilet seat covers must contain at least 100% recovered materials and 50% postconsumer content.

Paper towels: The paper towels must contain at least 100% recovered materials and 50% postconsumer content.

General purpose industrial wipes: The general purpose industrial wipes must contain at least 100% recovered materials and 40% postconsumer content.

Plastic trash bags: Plastic trash bags must contain at least 25% postconsumer content.

Product does not contain Chesapeake Bay Toxics of Concern or EPA's 33/50 Program 17 Target Priority Pollutants: The Department is committed to protection of the Chesapeake Bay and, consistent with this, wishes to ensure that products used in performance of this contract do not contain as constituent elements "Toxics of Concern" identified by the Chesapeake Bay Program Toxics Subcommittee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Department also wishes to eliminate the 17 chemicals targeted for reductions in use, releases, and transfers by EPA's Voluntary Environmental Protection Partnership. The Partnership is also referred to as the "33/50 Program."

The Chesapeake Bay Toxics of Concern are:

a. Atrazine Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)

b. Cadmium i. Benzo(A]anthracene

c. Chlordane j. Benzo(A]pyrene

d. Chromium k. Chrysene

e. Copper 1. Flouranthene

f. Lead M. Napthalene

g. Mercury n. Tributylin

h. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBS)

The 33/50 Program Target Chemicals are:

a. Benzene i. Methyl ethyl ketone

b. Cadmium and compounds k. Methyl isobutyl ketone C. Carbon tetrachloride l. Nickel and compounds

d. Chloroform M. Tetrachloroethylene

e. Chrormium and compounds n. Toluene f Cyanide compounds 0. 1, 1, 1,-trichloroethane

9. Dichloromethane P. Trichloroethylene

h. Lead and compounds q. Xylenes

i. Mercury and compounds

A complete MSDS and/or manufacturer product information for each product may provide sufficient data to enable assessment under this criterion. Additional supporting product information may be requested of an offeror.

No Sealed Aerosol Spray Cans: No products shall be used on-site that are contained in pressurized, sealed aerosol spray cans.

The Department chooses to eliminate on-site use of products so delivered because these containers require additional handling to fully discharge product and propellant and are not reusable or recyclable. All chemical cleaning products must be available in either a liquid form or manual pump action sprays and/or concentrates that can be dispensed into pump bottles for use.

Acceptable supporting data here may include a picture of the commercially available product delivery system (as in commercial literature) and/or description of the offeror's intended delivery system.

Carcinogens: While these compounds are rare in today's product formulations, the Department wishes to eliminate the use of products containing known and probable carcinogens. Accordingly, no chemical cleaning product shall contain constituent compounds that are classified by EPA as known or probable carcinogens. A complete MSDS for each product may provide sufficient data to enable assessment under this criterion. This information typically would be found under the "Health Hazard Data" section (Sec. VI) of the MSDS under "Carcinogenicity." Additional supporting product information may be requested of an offeror.

Not a Hazardous Waste: Products must not constitute hazardous wastes, as defined at 40 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Part 261, when offered for disposal. A complete MSDS for each product may provide sufficient data to enable assessment under this criterion. This information typically would be found under Section VII, "Precautions for Safe Handling and Use," under the "Waste Disposal Method" portion of MSDS. Additional supporting product information may be requested of an offeror.