GSA (General Services Administration) has proposed revising the Federal Management Regulation (FMR) to address end-of-life management of used electronics products generated by federal government.
The
proposed changes are to provide policy for the safe handling and disposal of federal electronic equipment and to make minor clarifying edits to existing policies. GSA is requesting specific comments on:
(1)
Auctioned FEAs: the suitability and feasibility of bulk sale of functional Federal Electronic Assets (FEA) to certified recyclers only through public auction programs (not the general public as drafted in this proposed rule);
(2)
Landfill and Incineration: restricting disposal of FEA in landfills or through incineration;
(3)
Recycling Standards: what electronics recycling standards are in use or being developed; and,
(4)
Recycling Standards Criteria: defining the technical and operational criteria necessary to be considered ‘‘certified recyclers’’ under this proposed rule.
At this time, GSA has identified two electronics recycling standards to electronics recyclers would be considered a “certified recycler” under this proposed rule—the
Responsible Recycling (R2) Standard and the
e-Stewards Standard.
GSA recognizes that recyclers may use other existing standards or that other standards may be developed in the future. In order to ensure that recyclers conforming to such other standards are not excluded from government procurement contracts GSA, in consultation with relevant agencies, will develop criteria to be used to evaluate and determine which standards recyclers may conform to in order to be considered ‘‘certified recyclers’’ under this proposed rule. GSA will make these criteria publicly available.
If you are interested, please review and submit comments according to the instructions on the
FR notice.
If you have any questions or comments about this federal register notice, please contact ReMA staff
David Wagger or
Eric Harris.