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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 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 |
§ 3201.63 - Bioremediation materials.
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§ 3201.63 Bioremediation materials.
(a) Definition. Dry or liquid solutions (including those containing bacteria or other microbes but not including sorbent materials) used to clean oil, fuel, and other hazardous spill sites.
(b) Minimum biobased content. The Federal preferred procurement product must have a minimum biobased content of at least 86 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 23, 2012, procuring agencies, in accordance with this part, will give a procurement preference for qualifying biobased bioremediation materials. By that date, Federal agencies that have the responsibility for drafting or reviewing specifications for items to be procured shall ensure that the relevant specifications require the use of biobased bioremediation materials.
[76 FR 43817, July 22, 2011]