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Biden to require US-made steel, iron for infrastructure projects

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FILE-President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Administration efforts to make more in America. Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S.

manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their construction material.New guidance issued Monday requires that the material purchased — whether it's for a bridge, a highway, a water pipe or broadband internet — be produced in the U.S.

However, the rules also set up a process to waive those requirements in case there are not enough domestic producers or the material costs too much, with the goal of issuing fewer waivers over time as U.S.

manufacturing capacity increases."There are going to be additional opportunities for good jobs in the manufacturing sector," said Celeste Drake, director of Made in America at the White House Office of Management and Budget.RELATED: What's in the infrastructure bill?

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