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President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to announce proposed guidance that the administration says would close a "giant loophole" in Buy America laws and extend their scope beyond iron and steel to a wider range of construction materials. The guidance, if implemented, would apply to "virtually all infrastructure spending supported by Federal financial assistance," the White House said. Click here to read more from the White House. Following the President’s SOTU address, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released proposed guidance to boost the use of American-made goods in infrastructure projects, including airports, Coast Guard housing, renovations to federal buildings, and other structures funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). This new OMB guidance sets standards to carry out the statutory requirement that all manufacturing processes for construction materials occur in the United States. This also includes domestic manufacturing process standards for each construction material referenced in the BIL, including drywall, lumber, plastic and polymer-based products, and glass.
President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to announce proposed guidance that the administration says would close a "giant loophole" in Buy America laws and extend their scope beyond iron and steel to a wider range of construction materials. The guidance, if implemented, would apply to "virtually all infrastructure spending supported by Federal financial assistance," the White House said. Click here to read more from the White House.
Following the President’s SOTU address, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released proposed guidance to boost the use of American-made goods in infrastructure projects, including airports, Coast Guard housing, renovations to federal buildings, and other structures funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). This new OMB guidance sets standards to carry out the statutory requirement that all manufacturing processes for construction materials occur in the United States.
This also includes domestic manufacturing process standards for each construction material referenced in the BIL, including drywall, lumber, plastic and polymer-based products, and glass.