A New US Law Authorizes the US Federal Government to Provide Surplus and Repairable Used Computers Directly to Nonprofit Refurbishers
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Jim Lynch
Jan 26, 2023, 1:22:09 PM1/26/23
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In case you didn't see this article in today's E-Scrap News, this is pretty big news for US nonprofit computer refuribishers.
The 2023 US spending bill that was passed by Congress in December allows the federal government to provide surplus and repairable used computers directly to nonprofit refurbishers, who will then provide them to veterans and other individuals in need. Additionally, the new law requires each nonprofit computer refurbisher receiving computers to provide training programs in the use of this technology. efurbishers must also “use recyclers to the maximum extent practicable in the event that surplus computer or technology equipment transferred under this section cannot be repaired or reused.
the General Services Administration (GSA) will craft regulations to implement the donation program. Those regulations will include the eligibility and certification requirements that nonprofit refurbishers will have to meet, including reviewing them for threats to national security (the GSA will have to disclose in a report to Congress any refurbishers with foreign ownership interests that received federal equipment, as well). GSA will also draft regulations “determining appropriate recyclers to dispose of surplus computer or technology equipment if it cannot be repaired or refurbished. GSA has already been in conversations with members of the Alliance for Technology Refurbishing and Reuse (AFTRR).
The 2023 US spending bill that was passed by Congress in December allows the federal government to provide surplus and repairable used computers directly to nonprofit refurbishers, who will then provide them to veterans and other individuals in need. Additionally, the new law requires each nonprofit computer refurbisher receiving computers to provide training programs in the use of this technology. efurbishers must also “use recyclers to the maximum extent practicable in the event that surplus computer or technology equipment transferred under this section cannot be repaired or reused.
the General Services Administration (GSA) will craft regulations to implement the donation program. Those regulations will include the eligibility and certification requirements that nonprofit refurbishers will have to meet, including reviewing them for threats to national security (the GSA will have to disclose in a report to Congress any refurbishers with foreign ownership interests that received federal equipment, as well). GSA will also draft regulations “determining appropriate recyclers to dispose of surplus computer or technology equipment if it cannot be repaired or refurbished. GSA has already been in conversations with members of the Alliance for Technology Refurbishing and Reuse (AFTRR).
The new program will be called the Computers for Veterans and Students (COVS) program
https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2023/01/25/feds-to-develop-repairable-computer-donation-program/
https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2023/01/25/feds-to-develop-repairable-computer-donation-program/
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