This part prescribes acquisition policies and procedures supporting the Government's program for ensuring a drug-free workplace, for protecting and improving the quality of the environment, and to foster markets for sustainable technologies, materials, products, and services, and encouraging the safe operation of vehicles by--
(a) Reducing or preventing pollution;
(b) Managing efficiently and reducing energy and water use in Government facilities;
(c) Using renewable energy and renewable energy technologies;
(d) Acquiring energy-efficient and water-efficient products and services, environmentally preferable (including EPEAT[supreg]-registered, and non-toxic and less toxic) products, products containing recovered materials, non-ozone depleting products, and biobased products;
(e) Requiring contractors to identify hazardous materials;
(f) Encouraging contractors to adopt and enforce policies that ban text messaging while driving; and
(g) Requiring contractors to comply with agency environmental management systems. [76 FR 31398, May 31, 2011, as amended at 79 FR 35861, June 24, 2014]
Effective Date Note: At 80 FR 53438, Sept. 3, 2015, Sec. 23.000 was amended by removing from paragraph (d) ``non-ozone depleting'' and adding ``non-ozone-depleting'' in its place, effective Oct. 5, 2015.