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HAMDT 512 (98th)

An amendment to strike the definitions of "recycled paper" and "wastepaper" in the bill and substitute a new definition of "recovered materials". Recovered materials fall into two groups: 1) post consumer materials such as paper, paperboard, used boxes, newspapers, etc. and 2) manufacturing, forest residues, and other wastes such as a) dry paper and paperboard generated by the papermaking process, b) finished paper from obsolete inventories, c) fibrous byproducts of harvesting, manufacturing etc., d) waste rope from cordage manufacture and textile mill waste and e) fibers recovered from waste water.