Sec. 30113. Environmental product declaration assistance
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $250,000,000, to remain available until expended (except that no funds shall be disbursed after September 30, 2031), to develop and carry out a program, to be known as the Environmental Product Declaration Assistance Program, to support the development, and enhanced standardization and transparency, of environmental product declarations for construction materials and products, including by— providing grants to businesses that manufacture construction materials and products for developing and verifying environmental product declarations; providing technical assistance to businesses that manufacture construction materials and products in developing and verifying environmental product declarations; and carrying out other activities that assist in measuring and steadily reducing the quantity of embodied carbon of construction materials and products.
Of the amounts made available under this section, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall reserve 7.5 percent for administrative costs necessary to carry out this section. In this section: The term embodied carbon means the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions associated with all relevant stages of production of a material or product, measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide-equivalent per unit of such material or product. The term environmental product declaration means a document that reports the environmental impact of a material or product that— includes measurement of the embodied carbon of the material or product; conforms with international standards, such as a Type III environmental product declaration, as defined by the International Organization for Standardization standard 14025; and is developed in accordance with any standardized reporting criteria specified by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.