Buses, Rail Cars, Ferryboats: Make it in America Act of 2010

Buses, Rail Cars, Ferryboats: Make it in America Act of 2010 - Eliminates certain waivers of Buy American requirements that the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) obligate federal funding for capital public transportation projects only if U.S. steel, iron, and manufactured goods are used in such projects. (Retains the current waiver of such Buy American requirements for any case where use of U.S. material will increase overall project costs by more than 25%.)

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5791 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5791

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to eliminate waivers to Buy 
      America to strengthen the requirement that steel, iron, and 
manufactured goods used in a capital project are produced in the United 
                                States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2010

   Mr. Garamendi (for himself, Mr. Hare, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Kagen, Ms. 
 Kaptur, Mr. McDermott, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Schauer, 
 and Ms. Sutton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
           the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to eliminate waivers to Buy 
      America to strengthen the requirement that steel, iron, and 
manufactured goods used in a capital project are produced in the United 
                                States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Buses, Rail Cars, Ferryboats: Make 
it in America Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF WAIVERS TO BUY AMERICA.

    Section 5323(j)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``that--'' and all that follows through subparagraph (D) and 
inserting ``that domestic material will increase the cost of the 
overall project by more than 25 percent.''.
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