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March 5, 2017
Administration Scraps Buy American Requirement for Keystone XL
Written by Sandy Williams
Is it Buy American or not? That seems to be the question of the day. President Trump signed an executive order clearing the way for the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, adding in a memorandum to the Commerce Department that the steel pipe used in construction will have to be made in the United States.
In the January 24 Presidential Memorandum, Regarding Construction of American Pipelines, the Secretary of Commerce was ordered to “develop a plan under which all new pipelines, as well as retrofitted, repaired, or expanded pipelines, inside the borders of the United States, including portions of pipelines, use materials and equipment produced in the United States, to the maximum extent possible and to the extent permitted by law.”
