# Comprehensive Guideline for Procurement of Products Containing Recovered Materials
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1997-11-13 · Effective 1998-11-13 · 62 FR 60962
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-29734
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 60962
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 247
- **Publication date:** 1997-11-13
- **Effective date:** 1998-11-13
- **EPA docket:** SWH-FRL-5909-6
## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency today is issuing an amendment to the May 1, 1995 Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG). EPA is designating 12 new items that are or can be made with recovered materials. These items are shower and restroom dividers/partitions; consolidated and reprocessed latex paint for specified uses; parking stops; channelizers; delineators; flexible delineators; plastic fencing for specified uses; garden and soaker hoses; lawn and garden edging; printer ribbons; plastic envelopes; and pallets. In addition, this action clarifies EPA's previous designation of floor tiles, structural fiberboard, and laminated paperboard as items that can be made with recovered materials. The CPG implements section 6002 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which 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 requires any procuring agency using appropriated Federal funds to procure that item to purchase it with the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable. Today's action will foster markets for materials recovered from solid waste by using government purchasing power to stimulate the use of these materials in the manufacture of new products. RCRA section 6002 provides certain limited exceptions to the general requirement to buy EPA-designated items. Under certain circumstances based on competition, price, availability, and performance, procuring agencies are not required to purchase an item designated by EPA. In the May 1, 1995 CPG, EPA codified the RCRA section 6002 procurement requirements for the convenience of procuring agencies so they can find all of the RCRA section 6002 procurement provisions, as well as EPA's item designations, in one location. EPA inadvertently omitted the limitations from the codification of agency requirements, however. Today, EPA is codifying

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/11/13/97-29734/comprehensive-guideline-for-procurement-of-products-containing-recovered-materials)
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