Manufacturers, contractors and towns on federal infrastructure jobs
Check a product or project against Build America, Buy America: iron and steel, the 55% component test, construction materials and waivers. Free.
ePlan fills in
How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Categorical exclusion memo (or short EA) in the agency's format door.
Modeled on: 2 CFR part 184
From public data
of the cost of a manufactured product's components must be U.S.-made for the product to count as produced in the United States
Source: 2 CFR 184.5, eCFR
Draft a NEPA categorical exclusion memo or short environmental assessment for a federally funded project, in the agency's format. Free to read.
Questions
When all manufacturing processes, from the initial melting stage through the application of coatings, happen in the United States.
A manufactured product counts as produced in the U.S. if it was manufactured in the U.S. and the cost of its U.S.-mined, produced or manufactured components is more than 55% of the total cost of all its components.
Yes. A federal agency may waive it if applying it is against the public interest, if U.S. products are not available in enough quantity or quality, or if using them would raise the overall project cost by more than 25%. Recipients may request a waiver.
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Where will the project happen?
Which state program and award is this?
Where is the project, and what is it?
Where is the mitigation project?
Who holds the federal award?
What are you proposing, and where?
Answer it and ePlan opens the Categorical exclusion memo (or short EA) in the agency's format door, which drafts the paperwork.