particularly as applied to sustainable economic devel-
opment.
(3) The data necessary for meaningful life-cycle
assessment are often difficult to acquire, and no sys-
tem exists to make such data readily available to
public and private groups.
(b) LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of
Science and Technology Policy, as part of activities
to coordinate environmental technology research, de-
velopment, and adoption, shall coordinate Federal
activities and resources that are applied to life-cycle
assessment in order to maximize the contribution of
life-cycle assessments to sustainable economic devel-
opment.
(2) IMPLEMENTATION.—In carrying out this
subsection, the Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy shall—
(A) ensure that the life-cycle assessment
resources of each Federal agency are developed
and disseminated in a coordinated fashion, par-
titioning agency responsibilities, where appro-
priate;
(B) coordinate with State and local govern-
ments developing life-cycle assessment re-
sources; and
(C) consider the life-cycle assessment capa-
bilities of the private sector.
(3) OTHER ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out this
subsection, the Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy shall also encourage appropriate
Federal agencies—
(A) to collect, develop, and disseminate in-
formation regarding analytic methods and, as
required, to develop such methods, that will sig-
nificantly enhance the ability of United States
companies and other organizations to evaluate
materials extraction, transportation, conversion,
end use, recycling, and disposal, and their asso-
ciated costs and environmental impacts;
(B) to utilize, to the fullest extent prac-
ticable, 
existing 
networks 
and 
supporting
databases 
providing 
ready 
access 
to
nonproprietary information that will facilitate
the use of life-cycle assessments; and
(C) to sponsor demonstrations for public
policy and business decisionmakers of the effec-
tive use of the database and methodologies de-
scribed in this section.
(c) ANNUAL REVIEW.—The Director of the Office of
Science and Technology Policy shall annually submit to
the Congress a report containing an evaluation of the life-
cycle assessment activities of the Federal Government.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act:
(1) The term ‘‘environmental technology’’
means—
(A) a technology that is primarily intended
to improve the quality of the environment
through pollution reduction or remediation;
(B) a product, manufacturing process, or
service that is capable of cost-effectively replac-
ing the functions of an existing product, proc-
ess, or service, and as compared with the prod-
uct, process, or service it replaces, significantly
reducing overall pollution or significantly im-
proving the efficiency of energy or materials
use; or
(C) a technology within the meaning of
subparagraphs (A) and (B).
(2) The term ‘‘life-cycle assessment’’ means the
assessment of the complete systems involved in con-
verting resources to products, including resource ex-
traction, materials conversion, energy use, end use,
recycling, and disposal, and their associated costs.
(3) The term ‘‘sustainable economic develop-
ment’’ means the integration of environmental and
economic development concerns leading to long-term
economic development with reduced pollution and
the more efficient use of energy and materials.
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