In a move that the Biden administration says is aimed at strengthening U.S. manufacturing, the Federal Highway Administration has proposed to jettison its more-than-40-year-old general waiver from the federal domestic-preference requirement for manufactured products used on federal-aid highway projects.
FHWA fleshed out its latest Buy America action in a proposed regulation issued on March 7. Comments on the proposal are due within 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register.