Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873
Signed March 25, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 13645
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Amends Executive Order 12873 to adjust federal standards for recovered materials in paper procurement. Sets the minimum postconsumer material content for items like high speed copier paper, offset paper, forms bond, computer printout paper, carbonless paper, file folders, and other printing and writing papers at no less than 20 percent beginning December 31, 1994, rising to 30 percent beginning December 31, 1998. Replaces a prior alternative standard with a new one allowing facilities to instead use paper containing at least 50 percent recovered materials that are waste byproducts of a finished non-paper, non-textile product that would otherwise go to a landfill, as determined by the relevant state. Also revises the order's language on the Federal Environmental Executive, directing that official to consult with the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality when carrying out these functions.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to assist paper mills in their procurement of recovered materials to use as raw materials, it is hereby ordered
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Amends: EO 12873, October 20, 1993
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The order, in full
Executive Order 12995 of March 25, 1996
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to assist paper mills in their
procurement of recovered materials to use as raw
materials, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
No. 12873 is amended as follows:
Section 1. Section 504(a) of Executive Order No. 12873
shall read: “(a) For high speed copier paper, offset
paper, forms bond, computer printout paper, carbonless
paper, file folders, white woven envelopes and for
other uncoated printing and writing paper, such as
writing and office paper, book paper, cotton fiber
paper, and cover stock, the minimum content standard
shall be no less than 20 percent postconsumer materials
beginning December 31, 1994. This minimum content
standard shall be increased to 30 percent beginning on
December 31, 1998.”
Sec. 2. Section 504(b) of Executive Order No. 12873
shall be deleted and section 504(c) of that order shall
be redesignated as section 504(b) and shall read: “(b)
As an alternative to meeting the standards in section
504(a), for all printing and writing papers, the
minimum content standard shall be no less than 50
percent recovered materials that are a waste material
byproduct of a finished product other than a paper or
textile product which would otherwise be disposed of in
a landfill, as determined by the State in which the
facility is located.”
Sec. 3. The last sentence of section 301(a) of
Executive Order No. 12873 shall read “In carrying out
his or her functions, the Federal Environmental
Executive shall consult with the Chairman of the
Council on Environmental Quality.”
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 25, 1996.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed March 25, 1996. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.