41 U.S.C. § 10b : US Code - Section 10B: Contracts for public works; specification for use of American materials; blacklisting contractors violating requirements

Search 41 U.S.C. § 10b : US Code - Section 10B: Contracts for public works; specification for use of American materials; blacklisting contractors violating requirements

(a) Every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of
any public building or public work in the United States growing out
of an appropriation heretofore made or hereafter to be made shall
contain a provision that in the performance of the work the
contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers, shall use
only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have
been mined or produced in the United States, and only such
manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been
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 except as provided in section 10a
of this title: Provided, however, That if the head of the
department or independent establishment making the contract shall
find that in respect to some particular articles, materials, or
supplies it is impracticable to make such requirement or that it
would unreasonably increase the cost, an exception shall be noted
in the specifications as to that particular article, material, or
supply, and a public record made of the findings which justified
the exception.
(b) If the head of a department, bureau, agency, or independent
establishment which has made any contract containing the provision
required by subsection (a) of this section finds that in the
performance of such contract there has been a failure to comply
with such provisions, he shall make public his findings, including
therein the name of the contractor obligated under such contract,
and no other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair
of any public building or public work in the United States or
elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors,
material men, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated
or affiliated, within a period of three years after such findings
is made public.