225-26 Agreement with Montclair State University FINAL.pdf

competition, where the purchase price of the item exceeds $ 10,000 or the value of the quantity acquired during the preceding fiscal year exceeded $10,000; procuring solid waste management services in a manner that maximizes energy and resource recovery; and establishing an affirmative procurement program for procurement of recovered materials identified in the EPA guidelines. A. Designated items are those set forth in 40 CFR 247 subpart B, as may be amended from time to time, including: 1) Paper and paper products listed in 40 C.F.R. 247.10; 2) Certain vehicular products as listed in 40 CFR 247.11; 3) Certain construction products listed in 40 C.F.R. 247.12; 4) Certain transportation products listed in 40 C.F.R. 247.13; 5) Certain park and recreation products, 40 C.F.R. 247.14; 6) Certain landscaping products listed in 40 C.F.R. 247.15; 7) Certain non-paper office products listed in 40 C.F.R. 247.16; and 8) Other miscellaneous products listed in 40 C.F.R. 247.17. B. As defined in 40 CFR 247.3, “recovered material” means: 1) waste materials and byproducts which have been recovered or diverted from solid waste, but such term does not include those materials and byproducts generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process; and 2) for purposes of purchasing paper and paper products, means waste material and byproducts that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste, but such term does not include those materials and byproducts generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process. In the case of paper and paper products, the term recovered materials includes: a) Postconsumer materials such as: i) Paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from retail stores, office buildings, homes, and so forth, after they have passed through their end-usage as a consumer item, including: used corrugated boxes; old newspapers; old magazines; mixed waste paper; tabulating cards; and used cordage; and ii. All paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes that enter and are collected from municipal solid waste, and b) Manufacturing, forest residues, and other wastes such as: i) Dry paper and paperboard waste generated after completion of the papermaking process (that is, those manufacturing operations up

anufacturing, forest residues, and other wastes such as: i) Dry paper and paperboard waste generated after completion of the papermaking process (that is, those manufacturing operations up to and including the cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel in smaller rolls of rough sheets) including: envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, and other paper and paperboard waste, resulting from printing, cutting, forming, and other converting operations; bag, box, and carton manufacturing wastes; and butt rolls, mill wrappers, and rejected unused stock; ii) Finished paper and paperboard from obsolete inventories of paper and paperboard manufacturers, merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers, converters, or others; iii) Fibrous byproducts of harvesting, manufacturing, extractive, or wood-cutting processes, flax, straw, linters, bagasse, slash, and other forest residues; iv) Wastes generated by the conversion of goods made from fibrous material (that is, waste rope from cordage manufacture, textile mill waste, and cuttings); and v) Fibers recovered from waste water which otherwise would enter the waste stream. C. For contracts in an amount greater than $ 100,000, at the beginning of each contract year, MSU shall provide estimates of the total percentage of recovered material utilized in the performance of its contract for each of the categories listed is subsection (A). At the conclusion of each contract year, MSU shall certify the minimum recovered material content actually utilized in the prior contract year.