FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 23: Environment, Sustainable Acquisition, and Material Safety › Subpart 23.1
FAR 23.102 Authorities.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
In plain English
This section lists the authorities that support the sustainability policies in FAR part 23. It cites an Executive Order, an OMB memorandum, implementing instructions, and the statutory purchasing programs referenced elsewhere in the part. It matters because it shows where the sustainability requirements come from.
Applies to: The FAR part 23 sustainability policies and the authorities behind them
Key terms: Executive Order 14057 · Federal Sustainability · statutory purchasing programs
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
(a) Section 208 of Executive Order 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability, dated December 8, 2021.
(b) Paragraph G of section I of the Executive Office of the President's Office of Management and Budget, Council on Environmental Quality, and Climate Policy Office Memorandum M-22-06, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability, dated December 8, 2021.
(c) Implementing instructions for Executive Order 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability, dated August 2022.
(d) The authorities referenced in 23.107 for statutory purchasing programs.
Sections it refers to
- 23.107 Statutory purchasing programs.
← 23.101 Definitions. · 23.103 Policy. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 23
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2025-08-27 · effective 2025-10-01
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk ↗ · proposed 2025-01-13
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · proposed 2024-11-29 · comments due 2025-01-28
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-07-30 · effective 2024-08-29
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Sustainable Procurement ↗ · final rule 2024-04-22 · effective 2024-05-22
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment ↗ · proposed 2024-01-09 · comments due 2024-03-11
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.