(a) (1) The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)) has delegated to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Procurement (DASA(P)) and the Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), authority to determine that the use of a particular domestic construction material is impracticable.
(2) The ASA(ALT) has delegated to the DASA(P) and the HCA, USACE, authority to make agency head determinations that the construction material is not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities of a satisfactory quality. The delegation to the HCA, USACE, is non-delegable.
[AFARS Revision #21, dated May 22, 2007]
