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Interagency Alternatives Assessment Webinar: Incentivizing Chemical Disclosure, Alternative Assessments, and Safer Substitution via Product Sustainability Standards J U N E 2 8 , 2 0 1 6 F A C I L I T A TE D B Y : J O E L T I C K N E R , S

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J U N E 2 8 , 2 0 1 6 F A C I L I T A TE D B Y : J O E L T I C K N E R , S C D J O E L _ TI C K N E R@ U M L. E D U L O W E L L C E N T E R F O R S U S T A I N A B L E P R O D U C T I O N , U M A S S L O W E L L

Interagency Alternatives Assessment Webinar:

Incentivizing Chemical Disclosure, Alternative Assessments, and Safer Substitution via Product Sustainability Standards

* If you would like to ask a question or comment during this webinar please type your question in the Q&A box located in the control panel.

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— Continuing education and dialog — To advance the practice of alternatives assessment for

informed substitution across federal, state, local and international agencies through networking, sharing of experiences, development of common approaches, tools, datasets and frameworks, and creation of a community of practice.

Goals

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Purpose of this call

  • Importance of public/private procurement in

accelerating safer alternatives

  • However, informed substitution has not typically

been a part of sustainable procurement approaches

  • US EPA is working to identify creative mechanisms

to insert the transition to safer chemicals in upcomping product sustainability standards

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—Holly Elwood, US EPA Environmentally

Preferable Purchasing Group

—Alison Kinn Bennett, US EPA

Speakers

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Discussion Questions

  • How can agencies more effectively engage in sustainable product

standards processes to ensure attention to safer chemistry?

  • Are there roles for the interagency dialogue in building a network of

expertise to inform these standards?

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— Due to the number of participants on the Webinar, all lines

will be muted.

— If you wish to ask a question, please type your question in

the Q&A box located in the drop down control panel at the top of the screen.

— All questions will be answered at the end of the

presentations.

Webinar Discussion Instructions

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Incentivizing Chemical Disclosure, Alternative Assessments, and Safer Substitution via Product Sustainability Standards

Holly Elwood & Alison Kinn Bennett EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program Presentation to the Interagency Alternative Assessment Working Group June 28, 2016

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AGENDA

§ EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program § Federal Green Purchasing Requirements § EPA’s Engagement in Product Sustainability Standards

Development efforts

§ Electronics sector case study § Opportunities to engage, collaborate! § Your questions…

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THE ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PURCHASING PROGRAM

§ Harness federal purchasing power to green markets by:

  • Providing recommendations of standards and ecolabels that federal agencies

can use to identify and buy environmentally preferable products and services

  • Work with stakeholders to create life cycle, multi-attribute environment

performance standards for priority products that feds procure

  • Provide technical assistance to help feds buy products meeting these standards

§ Federal Acquisition Regulations Part 23.703 state that Agencies must

“Maximize the utilization of environmentally preferable products and services (based on EPA-issued guidance)”.

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 13693 – MARCH 2015

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EO 13693 – 3(I) SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS

(i)Statutory Mandates

Recycled content (CPG) EnergyStar, FEMP BioPreferred

(ii) EPA programs

WaterSense Safer Choice SNAP Smartway

(iii) Env. Preferable

Meet or exceed specs, standards, or labels recommended by EPA https://sftool.gov/greenprocurement

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EPP PROGRAM PARTICIPATION IN STANDARDS (EXAMPLES)

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Spend category Focus Standards Organization Electronics personal computers IEEE imaging equipment IEEE TVs IEEE mobile phones UL-E servers NSF, IEEE Buildings, building materials & furnishings furniture BIFMA homes, office buildings, schools, sites USGBC, ICC, CHPS, SITES thermal insulation, doors, appliances UL-E, AHAM carpet, commercial furnishings fabric, resilient flooring, wall coverings, roofing membranes NSF Meetings /Hospitality destinations, exhibits, venues, a/v, communications, accommodations, food, & transport ASTM Services Professional Services, Building Maintenance Services NSF, GreenSeal

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EPP PROGRAM PARTICIPATION IN STANDARDS

§ Join standards development organizations § Coordinate across EPA and with other feds, experts

  • Desired criteria & supporting statements
  • Comment on other stakeholders’ proposals

§ Represent EPA at standards development meetings § Vote! § Develop model criteria for EPA standards development

engagement

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EPP PROGRAM MODEL CRITERIA – INVENTORY & DISCLOSURE

§ Identify chemical substances used in the manufacture of a product and

substances in the final product via a Product Chemical Substance Inventory.

§ Increase transparency of chemical constituents associated with the manufacture

  • f a product and substances comprising the final product.
  • Disclose the Product Chemical Substance Inventory.
  • Develop and Disclose Chemical Management Plan.
  • Work with suppliers to develop and disclose a complete portfolio of Safety Data Sheets

(SDSs) (consistent with the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)) and other label and product information that includes comprehensive hazard communication in order to support the identification and safe handling of chemical ingredients.

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EPP PROGRAM MODEL CRITERIA – ASSESS & SUBSTITUTE

§ Chemical Assessment § Safer Alternatives § Criteria for Hazard Endpoints § Criteria for Specific Chemicals and Uses that have been subject to regulatory or

voluntary action

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ELECTRONICS CASE STUDY

§ Current standards being updated or under development:

  • UL 110 Standard for Sustainable Mobile Devices
  • NSF/IEEE Joint Server Standard
  • IEEE 1680.1 Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products

§ Goal of all of these standards: Cover all the environmental impacts of the product

across the life cycle

§ All include criteria on:

  • Environmentally Sensitive Materials

¬ Elimination or reduction of specific chemicals of concern residing in the product ¬ Incentivizing Full Material Disclosure ¬ Incentivizing Alternatives Assessment § Iterative Process – continual updating, refining as we learn more

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ELECTRONICS STANDARDS: REDUCING CHEMICALS OF CONCERN

§ Include criteria:

  • Requiring compliance with:

¬ RoHS Directive ¬ REACH Directive

  • Requiring or incentivizing elimination or reduction of:

¬ Cadmium, lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, nickel, bromine and chlorine, SCCP flame retardants, pentaclorophenol, dibutyltin and dioctyltin, azo dyes, dimethylfumarate, FGHGs

  • May include future criteria on beryllium, 1-bromopropane
  • Expanding to address chemicals used in manufacturing process, but don’t

reside in the product

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ELECTRONICS STANDARDS: INCENTIVIZING FULL MATERIAL DISCLOSURE

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UL 110 Standard for Sustainable Mobile Devices

  • Optional – 4 points – Requesting full materials disclosure

¬ Must demonstrate having requested information from suppliers and have system to manage information

  • Optional – Received, validating, and managing materials information

¬ Tiered points (2-5) based on percentage (by mass) of the product for which chemical data has been collected

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NSF/IEEE Joint Server Standard

  • 6.2.1 Optional - Documentation of declarable substances

¬ Document all substances above thresholds set for chemicals identified in IEC 62474 ¬ Not required to make publicly available, must have a process to update, maintain this information

  • 6.2.2 Optional - Disclosure of declarable substances (data from 6.2.1)
  • 6.2.3 Optional - Requesting full substance inventory (of chemicals residing in the product)
  • 6.2.4 Optional - Acquiring substance inventory
  • 1 Point – 70% of total weight
  • 2 Points – 85% of total weight

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IEEE 1680.1 Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products

  • Under development – will be influenced by approaches of other two standards
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ELECTRONICS STANDARDS: INCENTIVIZING ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENTS

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UL 110 Standard for Sustainable Mobile Devices

  • Optional – 9 points
  • Provides lists of chemicals to consider doing AA on - IEC62474
  • Provides suggested AA approaches consistent with EPA’s Design for the Environment program
  • May not claim point if manufacturer does not make substitution to safer chemical, but can claim if incumbent is safest

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NSF/IEEE Joint Server Standard

  • Optional
  • 1 Point – Conducting 5 – 10 Alternative Assessments
  • 2 Points – Conducting over 10 Alternative Assessments
  • Allows use of AAs done by third parties
  • Provides lists of chemicals to consider doing AA on – IEC62474, chemicals with specific characteristics of concern (Annex C)
  • Provides suggested AA approaches from Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse Guide, National Academy of Sciences Framework, BizNGO

Protocol

  • AAs need to be reviewed once they are 3 years old
  • Have to document result of AA, actions taken

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IEEE 1680.1 Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products

  • Under development – will be influenced by approaches of other two standards
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IDEAS FOR INTERAGENCY AA WORKING GROUP

§ ID major uses of chemicals of concern & the products they are in § Develop model, cross-sector criteria to facilitate development of

product-category specific criteria

§ Develop subject matter expert contact list as a resource for

standards development

§ Engage directly in standards development

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OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INVOLVED

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UL 110 Standard for Sustainable Mobile Devices

  • Balloting & public comment open late June 2016, 45-day comment period
  • Contact Deborah.Prince@ul.com to provide comments via public comment period

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NSF/IEEE Joint Server Standard

  • Balloting Early August 2016
  • Contact Jessica Slomka at 734.214.6219 or jslomka@nsf.orgto join the IEEE balloting group, or provide

public comment to NSF

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IEEE 1680.1 Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products

  • Can join the subgroup crafting this criteria, and/or the working group
  • Balloting end of 2016
  • Contact Cassie Robinson at Cassandra.Robinson@nist.govto get info on how to get involved

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NSF Building Materials Standards

  • Varying timelines…Contact at jslomka@nsf.org
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FOR MORE INFORMATION…

§ EPA’s Sustainable Marketplace: Greener Products & Services -

http://www.epa.gov/greenerproducts

§ U.S. policy and information resources on standards -

http://standards.gov

§ Holly Elwood - Elwood.Holly@epa.gov § Alison Kinn Bennett – Kinn.Alison@epa.gov

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Discussion Questions

  • How can agencies more effectively engage in sustainable product

standards processes to ensure attention to safer chemistry?

  • Are there roles for the interagency dialogue in building a network of

expertise to inform these standards?

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— Interagency Alternatives Assessment

Discussion – Collaboration around technical feasibility evaluation in alternatives assessment.

— July 12, 11 am est — https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2576830

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