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[CITE: 15USC205c]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
                    SUBCHAPTER II--METRIC CONVERSION
 
Sec. 205c. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter, the term--
        (1) ``Board'' means the United States Metric Board, established 
    under section 205d of this title;
        (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;
        (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;
        (5) ``full and open competition'' has the same meaning as 
    defined in section 403(6) of title 41;
        (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 reexpressed in the metric 
    system of measurement;
        (8) ``cost or pricing data or price analysis'' has the meaning 
    given such terms in section 254b of title 41; and
        (9) ``Federal facility'' means any public building (as defined 
    under section 612 of title 40 \1\ and shall include any Federal 
    building or construction project--
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            (A) on lands in the public domain;
            (B) on lands used in connection with Federal programs for 
        agriculture research, recreation, and conservation programs;
            (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 \2\ 
        Affairs used for hospital or domiciliary purposes; or
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            (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.

(Pub. L. 94-168, Sec. 4, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1007; Pub. L. 104-289, 
Sec. 3, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3411.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pars. (5) to (9). Pub. L. 104-289 added pars. (5) to (9).


           Effective Date of 1996 Amendment; Savings Provision

    Section 6 of Pub. L. 104-289 provided that:
    ``(a) Effective Date.--This Act [See Short Title of 1996 Amendment 
note set out under section 205a of this title] and the amendments made 
by this Act shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act [Oct. 11, 1996].
    ``(b) Savings Provisions.--This Act shall not apply to contracts 
awarded and solicitations issued on or before the effective date of this 
Act, unless the head of a Federal agency makes a written determination 
in his or her sole discretion that it would be in the public interest to 
apply one or more provisions of this Act or its amendments to these 
existing contracts or solicitations.''
