Proposed Nonavailability Waiver of Buy American Act requirements: Port of Corpus Christi Authority to Purchase Marine Loading Arms

Procurement Summary

The Maritime Administration (“MARAD”) is seeking comments on whether to grant a limited waiver of the Buy American Act requirements under 41 U.S.C. chapter 83 for non-domestic marine loading arms for the Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Neuces County, Texas’s (PCCA) Avery Point Public Oil Docks Redevelopment—Phase 1: Expanding Oil Dock 3 project, which received funding under the FY 2019 Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP). The Buy American Act requires that manufactured articles, materials, or supplies be manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States. The proposed waiver would apply only to the procurement of eight non-domestic 8-inch diameter manually operated marine loading arms (NAICS 488320) based on nonavailability, as identified by the manufacturer responses received by PCCA, and, therefore, would not apply to any other items procured under this project.

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Is this a general applicability waiver?