§ 205c. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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 3301(a) 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.)
Codification
``Section 3301(a) of title 40'' substituted in par. (9) for
``section 13 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U.S.C. 612)'' on
authority of Pub. L. 107-217, Sec. 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303,
the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property,
and Works.
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.''
