Except as provided in 25.603-
(a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by the Recovery Act may be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work (as defined at 22.401) unless-
(1) The public building or public work is located in the United States; and
(2) All of the iron, steel, and other manufactured goods used as construction material in the project are produced or manufactured in the United States.
(i) Production in the United States of the iron or steel used as construction material requires that all manufacturing processes must take place in the United States, except metallurgical processes involving refinement of steel additives. These requirements do not apply to steel or iron used as components or subcomponents of other manufactured construction material.
(ii) There is no requirement with regard to the origin of components or subcomponents in other manufactured construction material, as long as the manufacture of the construction material occurs in the United States.
(b) Use only domestic unmanufactured construction material, as required by the Buy American Act.
