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On October 24, 2012 the Pennsylvania state legislature enacted a bill (H.B. 1840) that relaxed the state's existing Buy American provisions with respect to certain steel products.
The amendments, which took effect sixty days after enactment, provided for a new exception to the Steel Products Procurement Act (73 P.S. §§ 1881 et. Seq) that was originally enacted in 1978. That law requires every public agency to include in its contracts for construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement or maintenance of public works a provision that, if any steel products are to be used or supplied in the performance of the contract, only products made from U.S. steel may be procured. The term 'public agency' is broadly defined and includes, for example, Commonwealth agencies, counties, cities, municipalities, school districts, authorities and other public bodies.
The 2012 amendments provide for the creation by the Pennsylvania Department of General Services an official list of steel products that are not produced in the United States in sufficient quantities.
The second exception states that the requirement to use steel products made from U.S. steel does not apply (emphasis added): As required by the amendments, the Department issued a Statement of Policy in the Pennsylvania Bulletin on February 9, 2013, setting forth the processes by which the Department will establish the list each year and for resolving disputes raised during the public comment period (43 Pa. B. 877).
The Department also published an initial list of the exempt steel products in the Pennsylvania Bulletin (43 Pa. B. 940). It included the following items:
Air Conditioning Units Air Duct Housing w/Sample Tubes Air Handling Units Anchor Bolt Audio RA Station Annunciator Panel Audio RA Station AV Rack Kit Back Box Battery Cabinet Blank Filler Plate for Fiber Blank Metal Door Blank Plate for Outer Door Bottom Dead Front Panel Bridge for Cameras Butterfly Valves Cabinet Cardcage CCTV Power Supply Ceiling Flange Central Control Unit Centrifugal pumps Channel Video Circulating Pump Closers Color Monitor Conduit Fittings Control Module Plate Control Panel Control Valve Data Converter Unit Digital Record Door Protection Door Trim/Handles Drinking Fountain Drop-In Anchors Dry Tape Transformer Dual Interface Module Duct Detector w/Relay Duct Housing Ductless Split System DVR Rack Electric Traction Elevators Electric Water Cooler Elevator Controller Elevator Hoistway Encl. for Annunciator Enclosure Exit Devices Exp Cage Fender Washer Fire Alarm NAC Extender Fire Alarm Peripherals Fixed Door Station Flat Washer Flexible Drops Frames Full Blank Plate Galvanized Carriage Bolts Garage Door Tracking Generator Hand Dryer Hanger Mounting Plates Hangermates Hangers Supports Hex Nut Horn/Strobe Inner & Outer Door Inner Door Blank Plate Interface Module Lag Bolts Large Remote Cab Lock Cylinders Locknuts Locksets Low Temp. Detection Thermostats Lubrication Unit Machine Screws Main Control Board Metal Lockers Manual Pull Station Med. Enclosure Middle Dead Front Mini-Interface Module Monitor Mount Monitor Wall Brk Mounting Plate Network Fiber Switch Overhead Door Overhead Stops Patient Wandering Alarm Pipe Clamps Pivots Power Supply Pull Station Box RA Annunciator Pnl Rack Mount Card Cage Rack Mount Kit Radiant Panels Reader Interface Relay Module Remote Chiller Round head machine screw Sampling Tube Security Panel Security Unit Security/CCTV Camera Housing Self Turn Screw Shower/eye washers Signal Extender Module Single Blank Smoke Detector Wire Speaker Speaker/Strobe Split HVAC System Split Ring Hangers Split Rings Split System Air Conditioning SSD-C Remote Display w/Control SSD-C-REM Rem Display Stainless Flat Bars Stainless Steel Cable Strobe Submersible pump Sump Pump Surface Box Surface Mount Speaker Surface Station Box Surge Arrester Surge Protector T8 Light Troffer Tamper Proof Screws & Nuts Threaded Rod Hanger Tie Wire Anchor Toggle Wing Transformer Turbine pumps Uninterruptible Power Supply VRV Fan Coils/Cond. Units Wall Mtd. Fountain Water Coolers Water Heater Weatherproof Back Box Wing Toggle
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