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LEED for Homes awards credit for "reclaimed" lumber, which has generally been defined as post-consumer salvaged material. Can credit be awarded EPP credit for the use of "reclaimed urban lumber", which comes from felled urban forest that may otherwise go to landfill or a chipper. These typically include trees that would be removed for development, storm etc.

Ruling

Reclaimed urban lumber is material that would otherwise have gone to waste and is not the result of a preconsumer manufacturing process. By default its reclamation is \'post\' consumer reuse or recycling, given that there are no other stages left.
Updated 10/1/13 for rating system applicability.

Internationally Applicable
Off
Campus Applicable
Off