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Sustainable Marketplace: Greener Products and Services

Revised Guidelines on the Environmental Effectiveness of the Standards (Section II)

EPA revised Section II of the Guidelines (“Environmental Effectiveness”), in response to public comments. As noted in the Response to Comments, EPA does not intend to revise the other Guidelines at this time, pending the finalization of OMB’s revision of the Circular A‐119 and learnings from the pilot.

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