Executive Order 12995 Constitutional Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12995—Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873

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Monday, March 25, 1996

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1 min read (289 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President William J. Clinton on 1996-03-25, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Reviewed under the Tenth Amendment and the principle of dual federalism, this order touches upon domains traditionally reserved to the sovereign States. The Framers would caution against any attempt to commandeer state officers or displace local police powers through federal executive fiat.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ 12873 is amended as follows: Section 1.

▪ This minimum content standard shall be increased to 30 percent beginning on December 31, 1998." Sec.

▪ 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.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities

Total Words

289

1,751 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

13.2

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.23

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 12995, William J. Clinton (Mar 25, 1996). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-12995-amendment-executive-order-no-12873.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

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]