Bill Text: NJ A3371 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3371 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3371-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman TIMOTHY J. EUSTACE
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act establishing a Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act."
2. The Legislature finds and declares that it is the purpose of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) and the policy of this State to provide the structure and criteria necessary to ensure that the State processes for procuring freight, small package delivery, and other forms of cargo transport and shipping services take into consideration cost, quality, and environmental practices.
3. The Director of the Division of Purchase and Property in the Department of the Treasury, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall develop a sustainability program for the State's procurement of shipping and transportation services for freight, small package delivery, and other forms of cargo. The sustainability program shall provide that:
a. State contracts for the procurement of freight, small package delivery, and other cargo shipping and transportation services shall require providers to report:
(1) the amount of energy the service provider consumed in providing those services to the State and the amount of associated greenhouse gas emissions, including energy use and greenhouse gases emitted as a result of the provider's use of electricity in its facilities; and
(2) the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by the service provider's subcontractors in the performance of those services.
b. The State's solicitation for the procurement of freight, small package delivery, and other cargo shipping and transportation services shall be in accordance with State procurement laws and shall:
(1) specify how the bidder will report its energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, under the contract; and
(2) call for bidders to disclose in their responses to the solicitation:
(a) measures the bidder uses to reduce vehicle engine idling;
(b) the bidder's use of multi-modal transportation, including but not limited to, rails, trucks, or air transport, and how the use of those types of transportation is anticipated to reduce State costs;
(c) the extent of the bidder's use of cleaner, less expensive fuels as an alternative to petroleum or more efficient vehicle propulsion systems;
(d) the level of transparency of the bidder's reporting under subsection a. of this section, and what independent verification and assurance measures exist for this reporting;
(e) the bidder's use of speed governors on heavy trucks;
(f) the bidder's use of recyclable packaging;
(g) measures of the bidder's network efficiency, including the in-vehicle use of technologies that provide for improved vehicle and network optimization and efficiencies;
(h) the bidder's energy intensity per unit of output delivered;
(i) how the bidder will advance the environmental goals of the State; and
(j) opportunities to effectively neutralize the greenhouse gas emissions reported under subsection a. of this section.
c. In selecting providers for procurement of shipping and transportation services for freight small package delivery, and other forms of cargo, the State:
(1) shall consider the disclosures required pursuant to subsection b. of this section;
(2) shall consider the price and quality of the services being offered; and
(3) may accept from the service provider an optional offer at a reasonable cost of carbon neutral shipping in which the provider calculates the direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of the provider that are specified under subsection b. of this section, and obtains independently verified carbon credits to offset those emissions and then retires the carbon credits.
4. The Director of the Division of Purchase and Property in the Department of the Treasury, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purpose of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) including but not limited to regulations to encourage all State agencies to use the least costly level of service or mode of transport that can achieve on-time delivery for the product being transported and delivered.
5. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill establishes a Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program in the Division of Purchase and Property (division) in the Department of the Treasury.
The Director of the division, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, is to develop a sustainability program for the State's procurement of shipping and transportation services for freight, small package delivery, and other forms of cargo.
The bill requires that State contracts for the procurement of freight, small package delivery, and other cargo shipping and transportation services shall require providers to report: (1) the amount of energy the service provider consumed in providing those services to the State and the amount of associated greenhouse gas emissions, including energy use and greenhouse gases emitted as a result of the provider's use of electricity in its facilities; and (2) the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by the service provider's subcontractors in the performance of those services.
In addition, the State's solicitation for the procurement of freight, small package delivery, and other cargo shipping and transportation services is to: (1) specify how the bidder will report its energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions under the contract; and (2) call for bidders to disclose various information in their responses to the solicitation.
In selecting providers for procurement of shipping and transportation services for freight small package delivery, and other forms of cargo, the State is to consider the required disclosures and the price and quality of the services being offered.
The State may accept an optional offer at a reasonable cost of carbon neutral shipping in which the provider calculates the direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of the provider and obtains independently verified carbon credits to offset those emissions and then retires the carbon credits.
