[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7256 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7256

To require Federal agencies to procure electronic products meeting the 
 requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool 
                    (EPEAT), and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 3, 2008

 Mr. Bilbray introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To require Federal agencies to procure electronic products meeting the 
 requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool 
                    (EPEAT), and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Agency Environmental 
Procurement Act''.

SEC. 2. DECLARATION OF POLICY.

    The Congress finds and declares that it is the policy of the United 
States that Federal agencies procure electronics products that meet 
high standards of environmental consciousness and energy efficiency.

SEC. 3. DUTIES OF AGENCIES.

    The head of each agency shall--
            (1) ensure that, when the agency is procuring a consumer 
        electronic or information technology product to meet the 
        agency's requirements, the agency meets at least 95 percent of 
        those requirements with an Electronic Product Environmental 
        Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered product, unless there is no 
        EPEAT standard for such product;
            (2) ensure that the Energy Star feature is enabled on 
        agency computers and monitors;
            (3) ensure that the agency establishes and implements 
        policies to extend the useful life of agency electronic 
        equipment; and
            (4) ensure that the agency uses environmentally sound 
        practices with respect to disposition of agency electronic 
        equipment that has reached the end of its useful life.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``agency'' means an executive agency as 
defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, except that the 
term does not include the Government Accountability Office.
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