Sec. 874. Framework for the efficient and secure procurement of food service products
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It is the sense of Congress that— disposable food service products procured for use by the Department of Defense, whether for use within or outside the continental United States, should be produced in the United States, compostable, and minimize the amount of products acquired from sources in strategic competitors identified in the most recent National Defense Strategy submitted under section 113(g) of title 10, United States Code; and any deviations from the aim identified in paragraph
(1)should receive the highest levels of scrutiny by the Secretary of Defense. Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes— the timeline required to implement a requirement, including amending regulations, for the Department of Defense that all disposable food service products acquired for the Department of Defense are produced in the United States, compostable, and minimize the amount of products acquired from sources in strategic competitors identified in the most recent National Defense Strategy submitted under section 113(g) of title 10, United States Code; a list of existing laws and regulations establishing domestic acquisition preferences or requirements that may be affected by the requirement described in paragraph (1), and recommendations to resolve any conflicts between such laws and regulations and the requirement described in paragraph (1); a process for waiving the requirement described in paragraph
(1)on a case-by-case basis, including a framework for delegating such waiver authority below the Office of the Secretary of Defense; recommendations for the dollar values of contracts or other agreements at which the requirement described in paragraph
(1)and the waiver described in paragraph (3), respectively, should apply; an assessment of the infrastructure available in the Department of Defense to implement the requirement described in paragraph (1), including an assessment of the cost and a timeline for the development of the infrastructure that would be required to implement such requirement; and an assessment of the availability of food services products that are compostable. In this section— the term disposable food service product means a food service product designed to be disposed after a single use; the term food service product means a product for serving or transporting prepared foods or beverages; the term produced in the United States has the meaning given such term in section 70912 of the Build America, Buy America Act ( Public Law 117–58 ; 41 U.S.C. 8301 note); and the term compostable , with respect to a product, means that such product is composed of organic materials and which will decompose into or otherwise become part of usable compost in a safe and timely manner in an appropriate composting facility.
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Framework for the efficient and secure procurement of food service products
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