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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Part 25
[FAR Case 2015–001; Docket No. 2015–
0001; Sequence No. 1]
RIN 9000–AM88
Federal Acquisition Regulation; List of
Domestically Nonavailable Articles
Department of Defense (DoD),
General Services Administration (GSA),
and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed
rulemaking.
AGENCIES:
DoD, GSA, and NASA are
considering amending the Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to update
the list of domestically nonavailable
articles under the Buy American Act.
DoD, GSA, and NASA are seeking
information that will assist in
identifying domestic capabilities and for
evaluating whether some articles on the
list of domestically nonavailable articles
are now mined, produced, or
manufactured in the United States in
sufficient and reasonably available
commercial quantities and of a
satisfactory quality.
DATES: Interested parties should submit
written comments to the Regulatory
Secretariat at one of the addressees
shown below on or before May 26, 2015
to be considered in the formulation of
a proposed rule.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments in
response to FAR Case 2015–001 by any
of the following methods:
• Regulations.gov: https://
www.regulations.gov. Submit comments
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via the Federal eRulemaking portal by
searching for ‘‘FAR Case 2015–001’’.
Select the link ‘‘Comment Now’’ that
corresponds with ‘‘FAR Case 2015–
001’’. Follow the instructions provided
at the ‘‘Comment Now’’ screen. Please
include your name, company name (if
any), and ‘‘FAR Case 2015–001’’ on your
attached document.
• Fax: 202–501–4067.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
(MVCB), ATTN: Ms. Flowers, 1800 F
Street NW., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC
20405–0001.
Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite FAR Case 2015–001 in all
correspondence related to this case. All
comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal and/or business confidential
information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Cecelia L. Davis, Procurement Analyst,
at 202–219–0202, for clarification of
content. For information pertaining to
status or publication schedules, contact
the Regulatory Secretariat at 202–501–
4755. Please cite FAR Case 2015–001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A. The Buy American statute (41
U.S.C. chapter 83) generally requires
that only domestically mined,
produced, or manufactured articles be
procured for public use in the United
States. The Buy American statute
provides an exception for articles not
mined, produced, or manufactured in
the United States in sufficient and
reasonably available commercial
quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
FAR 25.103(b)(1) provides a
determination that articles listed at FAR
25.104(a) meet the conditions of this
exception. This determination does not
necessarily mean that there is no
domestic source for the listed items, but
that domestic sources can only meet 50
percent or less of total U.S. Government
and nongovernment demand.
The established list of articles
identified in FAR 25.104(a) is a
comprehensive and wide-ranging mix of
natural resources, compounds,
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materials, and other items of supply.
Although some articles on the list have
no known domestic production sources
(e.g., vanilla beans), many of the articles
are known to have some domestic
production sources, but those sources
have been determined in the past to be
inadequate to meet U.S. demand.
Examples of such articles range from
goat and kidskins (negligible domestic
production), to crude iodine (5 percent
of U.S. Government and nongovernment
demand), to bismuth (not in excess of 50
percent of U.S. Government and
nongovernment demand).
The list is reviewed every five years,
as required by FAR 25.104(b). DoD,
GSA, and NASA last published in the
Federal Register a request for public
comment on the list on August 7, 2009
(74 FR 39597).
The Councils are seeking information
to determine whether some articles
should be removed from the list because
they are now mined, produced, or
manufactured in the United States in
sufficient and reasonably available
commercial quantities and of a
satisfactory quality. Specific
information with regard to domestic
production capacity in relation to U.S.
Government and nongovernment
demand and the quality of domestically
produced items would be most helpful
in determining whether articles should
remain on or be removed from the list.
A sources-sought notice will be
published in FedBizOpps in an effort to
increase the awareness of this request
and to receive greater responses from
interested parties on the nonavailable
articles listing.
B. The current domestically
nonavailable listing at FAR 25.104 is as
follow:
• Acetylene, black.
• Agar, bulk.
• Anise.
• Antimony, as metal or oxide.
• Asbestos, amosite, chrysotile, and
crocidolite.
• Bamboo shoots.
• Bananas.
• Bauxite.
• Beef, corned, canned.
• Beef extract.
• Bephenium hydroxynapthoate.
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• Bismuth.
• Books, trade, text, technical, or
scientific; newspapers; pamphlets;
magazines; periodicals; printed briefs
and films; not printed in the United
States and for which domestic editions
are not available.
• Brazil nuts, unroasted.
• Cadmium, ores and flue dust.
• Calcium cyanamide.
• Capers.
• Cashew nuts.
• Castor beans and castor oil.
• Chalk, English.
• Chestnuts.
• Chicle.
• Chrome ore or chromite.
• Cinchona bark.
• Cobalt, in cathodes, rondelles, or
other primary ore and metal forms.
• Cocoa beans.
• Coconut and coconut meat,
unsweetened, in shredded, desiccated,
or similarly prepared form.
• Coffee, raw or green bean.
• Colchicine alkaloid, raw.
• Copra.
• Cork, wood or bark and waste.
• Cover glass, microscope slide.
• Crane rail (85-pound per foot).
• Cryolite, natural.
• Dammar gum.
• Diamonds, industrial, stones and
abrasives.
• Emetine, bulk.
• Ergot, crude.
• Erythrityl tetranitrate.
• Fair linen, altar.
• Fibers of the following types: abaca,
abace, agave, coir, flax, jute, jute
burlaps, palmyra, and sisal.
• Goat and kidskins.
• Goat hair canvas.
• Grapefruit sections, canned.
• Graphite, natural, crystalline,
crucible grade.
• Hand file sets (Swiss pattern).
• Handsewing needles.
• Hemp yarn.
• Hog bristles for brushes.
• Hyoscine, bulk.
• Ipecac, root.
• Iodine, crude.
• Kaurigum.
• Lac.
• Leather, sheepskin, hair type.
• Lavender oil.
• Manganese.
• Menthol, natural bulk.
• Mica.
• Microprocessor chips (brought onto
a Government construction site as
separate units for incorporation into
building systems during construction or
repair and alteration of real property).
• Modacrylic fiber.
• Nickel, primary, in ingots, pigs,
shots, cathodes, or similar forms; nickel
oxide and nickel salts.
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• Nitroguanidine (also known as
picrite).
• Nux vomica, crude.
• Oiticica oil.
• Olive oil.
• Olives (green), pitted or unpitted, or
stuffed, in bulk.
• Opium, crude.
• Oranges, mandarin, canned.
• Petroleum, crude oil, unfinished
oils, and finished products.
• Pine needle oil.
• Pineapple, canned.
• Platinum and related group metals,
refined, as sponge, powder, ingots, or
cast bars.
• Pyrethrum flowers.
• Quartz crystals.
• Quebracho.
• Quinidine.
• Quinine.
• Rabbit fur felt.
• Radium salts, source and special
nuclear materials.
• Rosettes.
• Rubber, crude and latex.
• Rutile.
• Santonin, crude.
• Secretin.
• Shellac.
• Silk, raw and unmanufactured.
• Spare and replacement parts for
equipment of foreign manufacture, and
for which domestic parts are not
available.
• Spices and herbs, in bulk.
• Sugars, raw.
• Swords and scabbards.
• Talc, block, steatite.
• Tantalum.
• Tapioca flour and cassava.
• Tartar, crude; tartaric acid and
cream of tartar in bulk.
• Tea in bulk.
• Thread, metallic (gold).
• Thyme oil.
• Tin in bars, blocks, and pigs.
• Triprolidine hydrochloride.
• Tungsten.
• Vanilla beans.
• Venom, cobra.
• Water chestnuts.
• Wax, carnauba.
• Wire glass.
• Woods; logs, veneer, and lumber of
the following species: Alaskan yellow
cedar, angelique, balsa, ekki, greenheart,
lignum vitae, mahogany, and teak.
• Yarn, 50 Denier rayon.
• Yeast, active dry and instant active
dry.
B. Executive Order 12866 and 13563
Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and
13563 direct agencies to assess all costs
and benefits of available regulatory
alternatives and, if regulation is
necessary, to select regulatory
approaches that maximize net benefits
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(including potential economic,
environmental, public health and safety
effects, distributive impacts, and
equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the
importance of quantifying both costs
and benefits, of reducing costs, of
harmonizing rules, and of promoting
flexibility. This is not a significant
regulatory action and, therefore, was not
subject to review under Section 6(b) of
E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and
Review, dated September 30, 1993. This
rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C.
804.
List of Subject in 48 CFR Part 25
Government procurement.
Dated: March 19, 2015.
William Clark,
Director, Office of Government-wide
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition
Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
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[Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097:
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Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Proposed Rule To Amend
the Listing of the Southern Selkirk
Mountains Population of Woodland
Caribou
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of
comment period.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
reopening of the public comment period
on our May 8, 2014, proposed rule to
amend the listing of the southern
Selkirk Mountains population of
woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus
caribou) to the Southern Mountain
caribou distinct population segment
(DPS). The southern Selkirk Mountains
population of woodland caribou is
currently listed as endangered under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (Act). On May 8, 2014, we
proposed to list the Southern Mountain
caribou DPS as threatened under the
Act. This reopening of comment period
will provide all interested parties with
an opportunity to review additional
scientific information and provide
comment on the status of the Southern
Mountain caribou DPS. Information
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Part 25
[FAR Case 2015-001; Docket No. 2015-0001; Sequence No. 1]
RIN 9000-AM88
Federal Acquisition Regulation; List of Domestically Nonavailable
Articles
AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: DoD, GSA, and NASA are considering amending the Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to update the list of domestically
nonavailable articles under the Buy American Act. DoD, GSA, and NASA
are seeking information that will assist in identifying domestic
capabilities and for evaluating whether some articles on the list of
domestically nonavailable articles are now mined, produced, or
manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably
available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
DATES: Interested parties should submit written comments to the
Regulatory Secretariat at one of the addressees shown below on or
before May 26, 2015 to be considered in the formulation of a proposed
rule.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments in response to FAR Case 2015-001 by any of
the following methods:
Regulations.gov: https://www.regulations.gov. Submit
comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching for ``FAR Case
2015-001''. Select the link ``Comment Now'' that corresponds with ``FAR
Case 2015-001''. Follow the instructions provided at the ``Comment
Now'' screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and
``FAR Case 2015-001'' on your attached document.
Fax: 202-501-4067.
Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory
Secretariat (MVCB), ATTN: Ms. Flowers, 1800 F Street NW., 2nd Floor,
Washington, DC 20405-0001.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite FAR Case 2015-
001 in all correspondence related to this case. All comments received
will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal and/or business confidential information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cecelia L. Davis, Procurement
Analyst, at 202-219-0202, for clarification of content. For information
pertaining to status or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory
Secretariat at 202-501-4755. Please cite FAR Case 2015-001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A. The Buy American statute (41 U.S.C. chapter 83) generally
requires that only domestically mined, produced, or manufactured
articles be procured for public use in the United States. The Buy
American statute provides an exception for articles not mined,
produced, or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and
reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory
quality. FAR 25.103(b)(1) provides a determination that articles listed
at FAR 25.104(a) meet the conditions of this exception. This
determination does not necessarily mean that there is no domestic
source for the listed items, but that domestic sources can only meet 50
percent or less of total U.S. Government and nongovernment demand.
The established list of articles identified in FAR 25.104(a) is a
comprehensive and wide-ranging mix of natural resources, compounds,
materials, and other items of supply. Although some articles on the
list have no known domestic production sources (e.g., vanilla beans),
many of the articles are known to have some domestic production
sources, but those sources have been determined in the past to be
inadequate to meet U.S. demand. Examples of such articles range from
goat and kidskins (negligible domestic production), to crude iodine (5
percent of U.S. Government and nongovernment demand), to bismuth (not
in excess of 50 percent of U.S. Government and nongovernment demand).
The list is reviewed every five years, as required by FAR
25.104(b). DoD, GSA, and NASA last published in the Federal Register a
request for public comment on the list on August 7, 2009 (74 FR 39597).
The Councils are seeking information to determine whether some
articles should be removed from the list because they are now mined,
produced, or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and
reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory
quality. Specific information with regard to domestic production
capacity in relation to U.S. Government and nongovernment demand and
the quality of domestically produced items would be most helpful in
determining whether articles should remain on or be removed from the
list. A sources-sought notice will be published in FedBizOpps in an
effort to increase the awareness of this request and to receive greater
responses from interested parties on the nonavailable articles listing.
B. The current domestically nonavailable listing at FAR 25.104 is
as follow:
Acetylene, black.
Agar, bulk.
Anise.
Antimony, as metal or oxide.
Asbestos, amosite, chrysotile, and crocidolite.
Bamboo shoots.
Bananas.
Bauxite.
Beef, corned, canned.
Beef extract.
Bephenium hydroxynapthoate.
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Bismuth.
Books, trade, text, technical, or scientific; newspapers;
pamphlets; magazines; periodicals; printed briefs and films; not
printed in the United States and for which domestic editions are not
available.
Brazil nuts, unroasted.
Cadmium, ores and flue dust.
Calcium cyanamide.
Capers.
Cashew nuts.
Castor beans and castor oil.
Chalk, English.
Chestnuts.
Chicle.
Chrome ore or chromite.
Cinchona bark.
Cobalt, in cathodes, rondelles, or other primary ore and
metal forms.
Cocoa beans.
Coconut and coconut meat, unsweetened, in shredded,
desiccated, or similarly prepared form.
Coffee, raw or green bean.
Colchicine alkaloid, raw.
Copra.
Cork, wood or bark and waste.
Cover glass, microscope slide.
Crane rail (85-pound per foot).
Cryolite, natural.
Dammar gum.
Diamonds, industrial, stones and abrasives.
Emetine, bulk.
Ergot, crude.
Erythrityl tetranitrate.
Fair linen, altar.
Fibers of the following types: abaca, abace, agave, coir,
flax, jute, jute burlaps, palmyra, and sisal.
Goat and kidskins.
Goat hair canvas.
Grapefruit sections, canned.
Graphite, natural, crystalline, crucible grade.
Hand file sets (Swiss pattern).
Handsewing needles.
Hemp yarn.
Hog bristles for brushes.
Hyoscine, bulk.
Ipecac, root.
Iodine, crude.
Kaurigum.
Lac.
Leather, sheepskin, hair type.
Lavender oil.
Manganese.
Menthol, natural bulk.
Mica.
Microprocessor chips (brought onto a Government
construction site as separate units for incorporation into building
systems during construction or repair and alteration of real property).
Modacrylic fiber.
Nickel, primary, in ingots, pigs, shots, cathodes, or
similar forms; nickel oxide and nickel salts.
Nitroguanidine (also known as picrite).
Nux vomica, crude.
Oiticica oil.
Olive oil.
Olives (green), pitted or unpitted, or stuffed, in bulk.
Opium, crude.
Oranges, mandarin, canned.
Petroleum, crude oil, unfinished oils, and finished
products.
Pine needle oil.
Pineapple, canned.
Platinum and related group metals, refined, as sponge,
powder, ingots, or cast bars.
Pyrethrum flowers.
Quartz crystals.
Quebracho.
Quinidine.
Quinine.
Rabbit fur felt.
Radium salts, source and special nuclear materials.
Rosettes.
Rubber, crude and latex.
Rutile.
Santonin, crude.
Secretin.
Shellac.
Silk, raw and unmanufactured.
Spare and replacement parts for equipment of foreign
manufacture, and for which domestic parts are not available.
Spices and herbs, in bulk.
Sugars, raw.
Swords and scabbards.
Talc, block, steatite.
Tantalum.
Tapioca flour and cassava.
Tartar, crude; tartaric acid and cream of tartar in bulk.
Tea in bulk.
Thread, metallic (gold).
Thyme oil.
Tin in bars, blocks, and pigs.
Triprolidine hydrochloride.
Tungsten.
Vanilla beans.
Venom, cobra.
Water chestnuts.
Wax, carnauba.
Wire glass.
Woods; logs, veneer, and lumber of the following species:
Alaskan yellow cedar, angelique, balsa, ekki, greenheart, lignum vitae,
mahogany, and teak.
Yarn, 50 Denier rayon.
Yeast, active dry and instant active dry.
B. Executive Order 12866 and 13563
Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and 13563 direct agencies to assess
all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize
net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public
health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). E.O.
13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and benefits,
of reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, and of promoting flexibility.
This is not a significant regulatory action and, therefore, was not
subject to review under Section 6(b) of E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning
and Review, dated September 30, 1993. This rule is not a major rule
under 5 U.S.C. 804.
List of Subject in 48 CFR Part 25
Government procurement.
Dated: March 19, 2015.
William Clark,
Director, Office of Government-wide Acquisition Policy, Office of
Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-06735 Filed 3-23-15; 8:45 am]
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