Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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windows. And essentially, it's a no tolerance. You
meet this standard or you don't put your window
product in our building.
Kaiser Permanente has a two to three
billion dollar building program a year. They took
that program and said we will not tolerate any vinyl
in our carpet. We want a vinyl-free carpet. And
they shaped the market, calling to Collins and
Aikman responded to it. It was very competitive.
You know, hundreds of millions of dollars of carpet
are being put into their buildings. So they shaped
the market.
I think OBO has the opportunity, as do
other federal agencies, to establish a no tolerance
level. We have a responsibility to do it right.
And there are economics that will benefit us, but we
can also shape the economics by using our simple
buying power to motivate the market to change and to
provide us the types of products and the types of
systems that will meet the need and make lead. I
mean, lead should be something that we, we use it
sort of as a word, and the lead stamp goes on here,
but as someone said earlier, it used to be, once
upon a time before energy was free, you know, and
before energy was cheap, basically, we had to build
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