[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1619 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1619

    To amend chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code, to require 
commemorative works in the District of Columbia and its environs to be 
 constructed of materials that are grown, produced, or manufactured in 
                           the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 2011

Mr. Kildee (for himself, Mr. Kissell, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, and Mr. 
  Lipinski) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code, to require 
commemorative works in the District of Columbia and its environs to be 
 constructed of materials that are grown, produced, or manufactured 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 ``Monuments Assembled and Domestically 
Engineered Act'' or the ``MADE Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR USE OF AMERICAN MATERIALS IN CONSTRUCTION OF 
              CERTAIN COMMEMORATIVE WORKS.

    (a) Requirement.--
            (1) Decision criteria.--Section 8905(b) of title 40, United 
        States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(8) American materials.--A commemorative work shall be 
        constructed using material--
                    ``(A) that, in the case of unmanufactured material, 
                is mined or produced in the United States; and
                    ``(B) that, in the case of manufactured material, 
                is manufactured in the United States substantially all 
                from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, 
                or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United 
                States.''.
            (2) Criteria for issuance of construction permit.--Section 
        8906(3) of such title is amended by inserting before the 
        semicolon the following: ``, and such contract documents 
        demonstrate that the material to be used in the construction of 
        the commemorative work complies with the criteria described in 
        section 8905(b)(8) of this title, as determined in accordance 
        with regulations implementing chapter 83 of title 41, United 
        States Code (popularly referred to as the `Buy American 
        Act')''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to commemorative works for which construction permits are issued 
under section 8906 of title 40, United States Code, on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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