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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3529
To establish the President’s Total Environmental Quality Award and the
National Environmentally Sound Technology Award.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 18, 1993
Mr. SWETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Science, Space, and Technology
A BILL
To establish the President’s Total Environmental Quality
Award and the National Environmentally Sound Tech-
nology Award.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmental Excel-
lence Recognition Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. PRESIDENT’S TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AWARD 
AND 
THE 
NATIONAL 
ENVIRON-
MENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGY AWARD.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
(1) Award programs such as the Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Award Program have
made substantial contributions to private enterprise
by providing a framework upon which organizations
can improve their operations and by focusing on is-
sues important to their competitiveness.
(2) A President’s Total Environmental Quality
Award Program modeled on the Malcolm Baldrige
Award Program would contribute to environmental
quality and sustainable economic development by—
(A) helping to stimulate United States
companies to develop and deploy environmental
technologies;
(B) recognizing the achievements of such
companies which successfully develop and de-
ploy environmental technologies; and
(C) establishing guidelines and criteria
that can be used by business, industrial, gov-
ernmental, and other organizations in evaluat-
ing their own development and deployment of
environmental technologies.
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to
provide for the establishment and conduct of a President’s
Total Environmental Quality Award Program and a Na-
tional Environmentally Sound Technology Award Pro-
gram under which awards are given to recognize the suc-
cessful development and deployment of environmental
technologies and under which information is disseminated
about such success.
(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF AWARDS.—The Stevenson-
Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C.
3701 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 23 the
following new sections:
‘‘SEC. 24. PRESIDENT’S TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AWARD.
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established
the President’s Total Environmental Quality Award (in
this section referred to as the ‘Award’).
‘‘(b) DESIGN.—The Award shall be evidenced by a
medal bearing the inscription ‘President’s Total Environ-
mental Quality Award’.
‘‘(c) AWARD SELECTION PROCESS.—The Secretary,
in cooperation with the Secretary of Energy and the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall
establish a process for the acceptance and evaluation of
Award applicants. The Secretary shall, to the maximum
extent practicable, use the same procedures and facilities
provided for the administration of the Malcolm Baldrige
Award, including the definition of award categories, the
delegation of responsibilities, and provisions for publicity,
evaluation feed-back, and information transfer.
‘‘(d) PRESENTATION OF AWARD.—
‘‘(1) RECOMMENDATIONS BY SECRETARY.—The
Secretary shall submit to the President the rec-
ommendations of the Secretary for the selection of
Award applicants.
‘‘(2) SELECTION BY THE PRESIDENT.—On the
basis of recommendations received under paragraph
(1), the President shall periodically select for receipt
of the Award United States companies and other or-
ganizations which in the judgment of the President
have substantially benefited the environmental, eco-
nomic, and social well-being of the United States
through the development and deployment of environ-
mental technologies, and which as a consequence are
deserving of special recognition.
‘‘(3) PRESENTATION
CEREMONY.—The Presi-
dent or the Vice President shall present the Award
to recipients selected under paragraph (2) with such
ceremony as the President or the Vice President
considers to be appropriate.
‘‘(e) LIMITATION.—The information gathered in eval-
uating Award applications may be used only for the eval-
uation of such applications and for publicity by winners
of the Award. Such information may not be used for regu-
latory or compliance purposes.
‘‘(f) EVALUATION CRITERIA.—Criteria for evaluating
Award applications shall include the following:
‘‘(1) The effectiveness of the organization’s de-
velopment and deployment of environmental tech-
nologies, as well as the organization’s provision for
environmental technologies in its future plans.
‘‘(2) The effectiveness of energy and materials
use from the perspective of the life cycle of the pro-
duction, use, recycle, and disposal of a product.
‘‘(3) The effective use of an integrated ap-
proach to pollution prevention and control that con-
siders all environmental media (liquid, solid, gase-
ous).
‘‘(g) FUNDING.—The Secretary may seek and accept
gifts from public and private sources to carry out this sec-
tion. The Secretary may provide for the imposition of a
fee upon the organizations applying for the Award.
‘‘(h) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit
to the President and the Congress a report on the progress
made in carrying out this section. The report shall include
any recommendations of the Secretary for any modifica-
tions of the Award the Secretary considers necessary.
‘‘SEC. 25. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECH-
NOLOGY AWARD.
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a Na-
tional Environmentally Sound Technology Award for the
purpose of awarding individuals who have pioneered the
development and use of a highly innovative environmental
technology.
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION.—Using the authority and
procedures established in section 24 and subject to the
conditions described in this section, the Secretary, in co-
operation with the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Secretary of Energy, shall re-
ceive and evaluate applications for the National Environ-
mentally Sound Technology Award and provide for presen-
tation of such Award.
‘‘(c) QUALIFIED TECHNOLOGIES.—Technologies that
qualify for such Award shall include following:
‘‘(1) Manufacturing technologies.
‘‘(2) Industrial or consumer products.
‘‘(3) Consumer services.
‘‘(4) Recycling technologies.
‘‘(d) QUALIFIED APPLICANTS.—Any citizen or per-
manent resident of the Unites States may qualify for such
Award. Any such individual who is employed by or other-
wise works for a business, Federal laboratory, or other or-
ganization may qualify for such Award only if the individ-
ual was substantially involved in the invention or innova-
tion for which such Award is presented.
‘‘(e) LIMITATION.—Not more than five such Awards
may be presented annually.
‘‘(f) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘environmental technology’ means—
‘‘(1) a technology that is primarily intended to
improve the quality of the environment through pol-
lution reduction or remediation;
‘‘(2) a product, manufacturing process, or serv-
ice that is capable of cost-effectively replacing the
functions of an existing product, process, or service,
and as compared with the product, process, or serv-
ice it replaces, significantly reducing overall pollution
or significantly improving the efficiency of energy or
materials use; or
‘‘(3) a technology within the meaning of para-
graphs (1) and (2).’’.
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