Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2013-0579-0014
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Draft Guidelines: Product Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels for Voluntary Use in Federal Procurement
Posted Date: 2014-02-27T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 11102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04329]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2013-0579; FRL-9906-98]

Draft Guidelines; Product Environmental Performance Standards and 
Ecolabels for Voluntary Use in Federal Procurement; Reopening of 
Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register issue of November 
27, 2013, concerning public review and comment on draft guidelines with 
a potential approach for using non-governmental product environmental 
performance standards and ecolabels in Federal purchasing. This 
document reopens the comment period for two months, until April 25, 
2014. The Agency received several requests to extend the comment period 
to allow more time for stakeholder review, collaboration, and response.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-
HQ-OPPT-2013-0579, must be received on or before April 25, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed instructions as provided under ADDRESSES 
in the Federal Register document of November 27, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alison Kinn Bennett, Pollution 
Prevention Division (7409M), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-8859; email 
address: kinn.alison@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document reopens the public comment 
period established in the Federal Register issue of November 27, 2013 
(78 FR 70938) (FRL-9394-7). In that document, EPA announced for public 
review and comment draft guidelines intended to provide a transparent, 
fair, and consistent approach to using nongovernmental product 
environmental performance standards and ecolabels in Federal 
purchasing, consistent with Federal standards policy and sustainable 
acquisition mandates. These draft guidelines have been developed in 
response to requests via a wide variety of stakeholder engagement 
channels from suppliers, manufacturers, environmental organizations, 
Federal purchasers, and other stakeholders over the last several years. 
EPA is hereby reopening the comment period to April 25, 2014.
    To submit comments, or access the docket, please follow the 
detailed instructions as provided under ADDRESSES in the November 27, 
2013 Federal Register document. If you have questions, consult the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Ecolabels, Government procurement, 
Guidelines, Standards.

    Dated: February 20, 2014.
Wendy C. Hamnett,
Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
[FR Doc. 2014-04329 Filed 2-26-14; 8:45 am]
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