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(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The head of each Federal agency 
submitting a report under paragraph (1) shall make the report 
publicly available to the maximum extent practicable. 
(4) EXCEPTION
FOR
INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—This sub-
section shall not apply to acquisitions made by an agency, 
or component of an agency, that is an element of the intelligence 
community as specified in, or designated under, section 3 of 
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a). 
§ 8303. Contracts for public works 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Every contract for the construction, alteration, 
or repair of any public building or public work in the United 
States shall contain a provision that in the performance of the 
work the contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers 
shall use only— 
(1) unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies that 
have been mined or produced in the United States; and 
(2) manufactured articles, materials, and supplies that have 
been manufactured in the United States substantially all from 
articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufac-
tured in the United States. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—This section does not apply— 
(A) to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside 
the United States; 
(B) if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind 
to be used, or the articles, materials, or supplies from 
which they are manufactured, are not mined, produced, 
or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and 
reasonably available commercial quantities and are not 
of a satisfactory quality; and 
(C) to manufactured articles, materials, or supplies pro-
cured under any contract with an award value that is 
not more than the micro-purchase threshold under section 
1902 of this title. 
(2) PARTICULAR ARTICLE, MATERIAL, OR SUPPLY.—If the head 
of the department or independent establishment making the 
contract finds that it is impracticable to comply with subsection 
(a) for a particular article, material, or supply or that it would 
unreasonably increase the cost, an exception shall be noted 
in the specifications for that article, material, or supply and 
a public record of the findings that justified the exception 
shall be made. 
(3) INCONSISTENT
WITH
PUBLIC
INTEREST.—Subsection (a) 
shall be regarded as requiring the purchase, for public use 
within the United States, of articles, materials, or supplies 
manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably 
available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality, 
unless the head of the department or independent establish-
ment concerned determines their purchase to be inconsistent 
with the public interest or their cost to be unreasonable. 
(c) RESULTS OF FAILURE TO COMPLY.—If the head of a depart-
ment, bureau, agency, or independent establishment that has made 
a contract containing the provision required by subsection (a) finds 
that there has been a failure to comply with the provision in 
the performance of the contract, the head of the department, bureau, 
agency, or independent establishment shall make the findings
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public. The findings shall include the name of the contractor obli-
gated under the contract. The contractor, and any subcontractor, 
material man, or supplier associated or affiliated with the con-
tractor, shall not be awarded another contract for the construction, 
alteration, or repair of any public building or public work for 3 
years after the findings are made public. 
§ 8304. Waiver rescission 
(a) TYPE OF AGREEMENT.—An agreement referred to in subsection 
(b) is a reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-
standing between the United States and a foreign country pursuant 
to which the Secretary of Defense has prospectively waived this 
chapter for certain products in that country. 
(b) DETERMINATION BY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.—If the Secretary 
of Defense, after consultation with the United States Trade Rep-
resentative, determines that a foreign country that is party to 
an agreement described in subsection (a) has violated the agreement 
by discriminating against certain types of products produced in 
the United States that are covered by the agreement, the Secretary 
of Defense shall rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of this 
chapter with respect to those types of products produced in that 
country. 
§ 8305. Annual report 
Not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the 
amount of purchases by the Department of Defense from foreign 
entities in that fiscal year. The report shall separately indicate 
the dollar value of items for which this chapter was waived pursuant 
to— 
(1) a reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-
standing described in section 8304(a) of this title; 
(2) the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et 
seq.); or 
(3) an international agreement to which the United States 
is a party. 
CHAPTER 85—COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED 
Sec. 
8501.
Definitions. 
8502.
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. 
8503.
Duties and powers of the Committee. 
8504.
Procurement requirements for the Federal Government. 
8505.
Audit. 
8506.
Authorization of appropriations. 
§ 8501. Definitions 
In this chapter: 
(1) BLIND.—The term ‘‘blind’’ refers to an individual or class 
of individuals whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/ 
200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual 
acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to 
the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that 
its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 
degrees. 
(2) COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘Committee’’ means the Com-
mittee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely 
Disabled established under section 8502 of this title.