[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 13 (Monday, April 1, 1996)]
[Page 571]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

<R04>
Executive Order 12995--Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873

March 25, 1996

    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.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
March 25, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 27, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on March 26, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
March 28.