Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating a final regulation designating the following 19 items that are or can be made with recovered materials: Engine coolants, structural fiberboard, laminated paperboard, carpet, floor tile, patio blocks, cement and concrete containing ground granulated blast furnace slag, traffic cones, traffic barricades, playground surfaces, running tracks, hydraulic mulch, yard trimmings compost, office recycling containers, office waste receptacles, plastic desktop accessories, toner cartridges, binders, and plastic trash bags. The CPG also consolidates the designations from EPA's five earlier procurement guidelines, which were previously codified at 40 CFR parts 248, 249, 250, 252, and 253. These five items, in addition to the 19 new items designated today, will be incorporated into a new Comprehensive Procurement Guideline codified at 40 CFR part 247. This regulation is issued under the authority of section 6002(e) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This action will promote recycling by using government purchasing to expand markets for recovered materials. RCRA section 6002 requires EPA to designate items that are or can be produced with recovered materials and to recommend practices for the procurement of designated items by procuring agencies. Once EPA designates an item, RCRA section 6002 requires that any procuring agency, when using appropriated Federal funds to procure that item, shall purchase it with the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable. Executive Order 12873 sets forth procedures for EPA to follow in implementing RCRA section 6002(e). Specifically, it calls for EPA to designate section 6002 items in a Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) and to provide recommended procurement practices in a related Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN). For the items designated in today's rule, EPA is issuing a Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN), which is published in