[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 61 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
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[FR Doc No: 96-7773]
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 61 / Thursday, March 28, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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                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.
[FR Doc. 96-7773
Filed 3-27-96; 8:45 am]
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