[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR11.303]

[Page 177]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 11_DESCRIBING AGENCY NEEDS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart 11.3_Acceptable Material
 
Sec.  11.303  Special requirements for printing and writing paper.

    (a) Section 505 of Executive Order 13101, Greening the Government 
through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition, 
establishes minimum recovered material content standards for agency 
purchases of printing and writing paper. Section 505 requires that 100 
percent of an agency's purchases of printing and writing paper must meet 
or exceed one of the minimum content standards specified in paragraph 
(b) of this section.
    (b) For high-speed copier paper, offset paper, forms bond, computer 
printout paper, carbonless paper, file folders, white wove envelopes, 
writing and office paper, book paper, cotton fiber paper, and cover 
stock, the minimum content standard must be no less than 30 percent 
postconsumer materials. If paper containing 30 percent postconsumer 
material is not reasonably available, does not meet reasonable 
performance requirements, or is only available at an unreasonable price, 
then the agency must purchase paper containing no less than 20 percent 
postconsumer material.