§ 205c. Definitions

Footnotes

1. 1 So in original. Probably should be followed by a closing parenthesis.
2. 2 So in original. Probably should be “Veterans”.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1975

   Metric Conversion Act of 1975

   Pub. L. 94–168 § 4 · 89 Stat. 1007

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 205c

   Pub. L. 94–168, § 4, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1007

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 94–168, § 4, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1007

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. As used in this Act, the term— Definitions. 15 USC 205c. (1) “Board” means the United States Metric Board, established under section 5 of this Act; (2) “engineering standard” means a standard which prescribes (A) a concise set of conditions and requirements that must be satisfied by a material, product, process, procedure, convention, or test method; and (B) the physical, functional, performance and/or conformance characteristics thereof; (3) “international standard or recommendation” means an engineering standard or recommendation which is (A) formulated and promulgated by an international organization and (B) recommended for adoption by individual nations as a national standard; and (4) “metric system of measurement” means the International System of Units as established by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960 and as interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce.

2. 1996

   Savings in Construction Act of 1996

   Pub. L. 104–289 § 3 · 110 Stat. 3411

   Added · 15 U.S.C. § 205c(5)(9)

   Pub. L. 104–289 added pars. (5) to (9)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pars. (5) to (9). Pub. L. 104–289 added pars. (5) to (9).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. Section 4 of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (15 U. S. C. 205c) is amended— (1) by striking “and” at the end of paragraph (3); (2) by striking “Commerce.” in paragraph (4) and inserting “Commerce; ”; and (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: “(5) ‘full and open competition’ has the same meaning as defined in section 403(6) of title 41, United States Code; “(6) ‘total installed price’ means the price of purchasing a product or material, trimming or otherwise altering some or all of that product or material, if necessary to fit with other building components, and then installing that product or material into a Federal facility; “(7) ‘hard-metric’ means measurement, design, and manufacture using the metric system of measurement, but does not include measurement, design, and manufacture using English system measurement units which are subsequently re-expressed in the metric system of measurement; “(8) ‘cost or pricing data or price analysis’ has the meaning given such terms in section 304A of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U. S. C. 254b); and “(9) ‘Federal facility’ means any public building (as defined under section 13 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U. S. C. 612) and shall include any Federal building or construction project— “(A) on lands in the public domain; “(B) on lands used in connection with Federal programs for agriculture research, recreation, and conservation pro-grams; “(C) on or used in connection with river, harbor, flood control, reclamation, or power projects; “(D) on or used in connection with housing and residential projects; “(E) on military installations (including any fort, camp, post, naval training station, airfield, proving ground, military supply depot, military school, or any similar facility of the Department of Defense); “(F) on installations of the Department of Veteran Affairs used for hospital or domiciliary purposes; or “(G) on lands used in connection with Federal prisons, but does not include (i) any Federal building or construction project the exclusion of which the President deems to be justified in the public interest, or (ii) any construction project or building owned or controlled by a State government, local government, Indian tribe, or any private entity. ”.

   Effective date note
   Pub. L. 104–289, § 6, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3415, provided that:

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision