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Purchasing Procedures and Manual 32 Pre-consumer Material – A material or by-products generated after manufacture of a product is completed but before the product reaches the end-use consumer. Pre-consumer material does not include mill and manufacturing trim, scrap, or broke which is generated at a manufacturing site and commonly reused on-site in the same or another manufacturing process. Printing and Writing Papers – Include, but are not limited to, copy, xerographic, watermark, cotton fiber, offset, forms, computer printout paper, white wove envelopes, manila envelopes, book paper, note pads, writing tablets, newsprint, and other uncoated writing papers, posters, index cards, calendars, brochures, reports, magazines, and publications; or as otherwise defined in Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations Section 18982(a)(54). Processed Chlorine Free (PCF) refers to a recycled product in which the recycled content is produced using no chlorine or chlorine derivatives. Any virgin content in the product must also be produced using no chlorine or chlorine derivatives. Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products – Purchase or no-cost acquisition of Organic Waste Products and end use by the City or others. The City’s Annual Recovered Organic Waste Product Procurement Target can be fulfilled directly by the City or by Direct Service Providers through written contracts or agreements for Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products at the City’s behest. Publicly-Owned Treatment Works (POTW) – A publicly owned and operated sewage treatment plant as defined in Section 403.3(r) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Recovered Material – Fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes pre- consumer and post-consumer material but does not include excess resources of the manufacturing process. Recovered Organic Waste Products – Products made from California, landfill-diverted Recovered Organic Waste processed at a permitted or otherwise authorized operation or facility, or as otherwise defined in Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations Section 18982(a)(60). Products that can be used to meet the Annual Recovered Organic Waste Product Procurement Target shall include Compost, SB 1383 Eligible Mulch, Renewable Gas from an in-vessel digestion facility, and Electricity Procured from Biomass Conversion as described herein and provided that such products meet requirements of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, Division 7, Chapter 12, Article 12, Sections 18993.1 to 18993.4. as amended. Recycled Content – The percentage of recovered material, including pre-consumer and post- consumer materials, in a product. Recycled-Content Paper Products and Recycled-Content Printing and Writing Paper – Such products that consist of at least thirty percent (30%), by fiber weight, postconsumer fiber, consistent with the requirements of Sections 22150 to 22154 and Sections 12200 and 12209 of the California Public Contract Code, and as amended. Page 160 of 373