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§ 3503

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(a)An awarding authority shall require the successful bidder for a contract described in subdivision
(b)to submit a current facility-specific Environmental Product Declaration, Type III, as defined by the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)standard 14025, or similarly robust life cycle assessment methods that have uniform standards in data collection consistent with ISO standard 14025, industry acceptance, and integrity, for each eligible material proposed to be used.
(b)An awarding authority shall include in a specification for bids for an eligible project that the facility-specific global warming potential for any eligible material does not exceed the maximum acceptable global warming potential for that material determined pursuant to Section 3502. An awarding authority may include in a specification for bids for an eligible project a facility-specific global warming potential for any eligible material that is lower than the maximum acceptable global warming potential for that material determined pursuant to Section 3502.
(c)A successful bidder for a contract described in subdivision
(b)shall not install any eligible materials on the project until that bidder submits a facility-specific Environmental Product Declaration for that material pursuant to subdivision (a).
(d)This section shall only apply to a contract entered into on or after July 1, 2022.
(e)This section shall not apply to an eligible material for a particular contract if the awarding authority determines, upon written justification published on its internet website, that requiring those eligible materials to comply would be technically infeasible, would result in a significant increase in the project cost or a significant delay in completion, or would result in only one source or manufacturer being able to provide the type of material needed by the state.
(f)This section shall not apply if the awarding authority determines that an emergency exists, as defined in Section 1102, or that any of the circumstances described in subdivisions
(a)to (d), inclusive, of Section 10122 exist.
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