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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: July 5, 2024) |
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Title 7 - Agriculture |
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Subtitle B - Regulations of the Department of Agriculture |
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Chapter XXXII - Office of Procurement and Property Management, Department of Agriculture |
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Part 3201 - Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement |
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Subpart B - Designated Product Categories and Intermediate Ingredients or Feedstocks |
§ 3201.116 - Intermediates - Cleaner Components.
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§ 3201.116 Intermediates - Cleaner Components.
(a) Definition. Intermediates - Cleaner Components are intermediate ingredients used specifically for formulating finished cleaning products. Examples of Intermediates - Cleaner Components include chelating agents, surfactants, hydrotropes, fatty acids, or solvents.
(b) Minimum biobased content. The Federal preferred procurement product must have a minimum biobased content of at least 55 percent, which shall be based on the amount of qualifying biobased carbon in the product as a percent of the weight (mass) of the total organic carbon in the finished product.
(c) Preference compliance date. No later than July 10, 2019, procuring agencies, in accordance with this part, will give a procurement preference for qualifying biobased Intermediates - Cleaner Components. By that date, Federal agencies responsible for drafting or reviewing specifications for products to be procured shall ensure that the relevant specifications require the use of biobased Intermediates - Cleaner Components.
[83 FR 31848, July 10, 2018]