[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR12.805]

[Page 335]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 12_ADMINISTRATIVE AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS AND COST PRINCIPLES FOR 
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart E_Buy American Requirements for Assistance Programs
 
Sec. 12.805  Definitions.

    Components, as used in this subpart, means those articles, 
materials, and supplies incorporated directly into construction 
materials.
    Construction, as used in this subpart, means construction, 
alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the 
United States.
    Construction materials, as used in this subpart, means an article, 
material, and supply brought to the construction site for incorporation 
into the building or work.
    Construction material also includes an item brought to the site pre-
assembled from articles, materials, and supplies. However, emergency 
life safety systems, such as emergency lighting, fire alarm, and audio 
evacuation systems, which are discrete systems incorporated into a 
public building or work and which are produced as a complete system, 
shall be evaluated as a single and distinct construction material 
regardless of when or how the individual parts or components of such 
systems are delivered to the construction site.
    Domestic construction material, as used in this section, means: (a) 
An unmanufactured construction material mined or produced in the United 
States, or (b) a construction material manufactured in the United 
States, if the cost of its components mined, produced, or manufactured 
in the United States exceeds 50 percent of the cost of all its 
components. (In determining whether a construction material is domestic, 
only the construction material and its components shall be considered.) 
The cost of each component includes transportation costs to the place of 
incorporation into the construction material and any applicable duty 
(whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued). Components of 
foreign origin of the same class or kind for which determinations have 
been made in accordance with Sec. 12.810(a)(3) are treated as domestic.
    Foreign construction material, as used in this section, means as 
construction material other than a domestic construction material.
    United States (see Sec. 12.705).