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January 18, 2005
Preferences Drive Biobased Government Procurement
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The weekly GovPro Newsletter is produced by the editors of Government Product News and Government Procurement Journal. Visit: www.govpro.com a news-, product-, and issue-driven site for all levels of government. This Week Features Features Preferences Drive Biobased Government Procurement The growing use of biobased products by the federal government reached a major milestone with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman's announcement of the final rule implementing a program of preferred procurement.
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States Look Beyond Quotas to Promote Minority Firms Laws that require state agencies to set aside a portion of their contracts for minority-owned businesses have been around since the 1960s. Because racial preference programs have been dogged by the threat of legal challenges, some states are getting creative and devising new approaches to expanding diversity in business ownership.
News County Maps Invasive Plants with Satellite Kearny County, KS, plans to map Tamarisk, an invasive plant species that has infested the banks of the Arkansas River, using satellite imagery. The effective management of Tamarisk has critical implications for human water supply, wildfire prevention and environmental preservation. Tamarisk, also known as Salt Cedar, is a non-native shrub that has invaded stream banks and waterways throughout the southwestern United States. Consuming about twice the amount of water as native plants, large Tamarisk shrubs dry-up water sources by lowering water tables. Current shrubs along parts of the Arkansas River consume enough water to supply 20 million people, or the irrigation of over 1 million acres of land. Tamarisk also presents a significant fire hazard, impedes wildlife access to water sources, alters soil salinity, and lowers water quality for water creatures. "One of the greatest limiting factors in understanding and controlling Tamarisk is the lack of detailed, high-resolution maps of the plant's distribution and abundance," said Shannon McCormick, Kearny County Commissioner. "We needed a quick, cost-effective and repeatable method of surveying the area." Kearny County turned to Colorado Springs, CO-based Native Communities Development Corp.(NCDC), a DigitalGlobe business partner that specializes in the use of high-resolution satellite imagery for invasive plant delineation, wildfire risk assessment, forest composition analysis and emergency planning. Using QuickBird satellite imagery and Feature Analyst Software from Visual Learning Systems (Missoula, MT), in addition to proprietary algorithms, NCDC created a detailed inventory used for developing treatment and control plans. NCDC also created visual, image-based maps to assist in communicating with government agencies and private landowners. For more information, visit: www.digitalglobe.com News of the Weird We welcome your feedback. Please e-mail suggestions and comments to Katherine Frisch at: mailto:kfrisch@penton.com You may qualify for a complimentary subscription to Government Product News. For more information, visit:www.submag.com/sub/gn You may qualify for a complimentary subscription to Government Procurement. For more information, visit: If you would like to subscribe to this weekly newsletter for government professionals send a blank email to: If you would like to unsubscribe to the GovPro newsletter send a blank email to: GovPro Newsletter, 1300 E. 9th St., Cleveland, OH 44114-1503 Copyright 2005 Penton Media, Inc.
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