§ 7 — Vegetable ink printing

§ 7. Vegetable ink printing. 1. The legislature finds and declares\nthat:\n (a) most state printing involving documents or publications is\nperformed using lithographic inks;\n (b) various types of oil, including petroleum and vegetable oil, are\nused in lithographic ink;\n (c) increasing the amount of vegetable oil used in a lithographic ink\nwould:\n (i) help reduce the nation's use of nonrenewable energy resources;\n (ii) result in the use of products that are less damaging to the\nenvironment;\n (iii) result in a reduction of volatile organic compound emissions;\nand\n (iv) increase the use of renewable agricultural products;\n (d) the technology exists to use vegetable oil in lithographic ink\nand, in some applications, to use lithographic ink that uses no\npetroleum distillates in the liquid portion of the ink;\n (e) some lithographic inks have contained vegetable oils for many\nyears; other lithographic inks have more recently begun to use vegetable\noil;\n (f) according to the federal government printing office, using\nvegetable-based ink appears to add little if any additional cost to\ngovernment printing;\n (g) use of vegetable-based ink in state government printing should\nfurther develop:\n (i) the commercial viability of vegetable-based ink, which could\nresult in demand, for domestic use alone, for two billion five hundred\nmillion pounds of vegetable crops or five hundred million pounds of\nvegetable oil; and\n (ii) a product that could help the United States retain or enlarge its\nshare of the world market for vegetable ink.\n 2. Definition. In this section, "state agency" means any department,\nboard, bureau, division or other entity of the state, any public\nauthority or public benefit corporation, the judiciary and the state\nlegislature.\n 3. General provisions. Notwithstanding any other law, beginning on the\ndate that is one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this\nsection, all lithographic printing performed or procured by a state\nagency that uses oil in its ink shall use the maximum amount of\nvegetable oil that is technologically feasible and results in printing\ncosts that are cost-competitive with printing using petroleum-based\ninks.\n 4. Requirements. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this\nsubdivision, in no event shall a state agency use any ink that contains\nless than the following percentages of vegetable oil in its ink used for\nlithographic printing:\n (i) in the case of news inks, forty percent.\n (ii) in the case of sheet-fed inks, twenty percent.\n (iii) in the case of forms inks, twenty percent.\n (iv) in the case of heat-set inks, ten percent.\n (b) At any time at which a state agency determines that the cost of\nprinting with vegetable-based ink is significantly greater than the cost\nof printing with petroleum-based ink, the state agency may perform or\nprocure lithographic printing using ink that contains less than the\npercentages of vegetable oil in its ink than those specified in\nparagraph (a) of this subdivision until such time as the cost of\nprinting with vegetable-based ink is not significantly greater than the\ncost of printing with petroleum-based ink.\n (c) A determination made under paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall\nbe reviewed at least once every quarter, for the performance or\nprocurement of printing of materials that are printed on a regular basis\nand prior to performing or procuring the printing of particular material\nof significant size that is printed once or is printed at intervals of\nsix months or more.\n