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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Apr 15, 2011
Monuments Assembled and Domestically Engineered Act or the MADE Act - Requires a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs to be constructed using: (1) unmanufactured material mined or produced in the United States; and (2) material manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior or the Administrator of General Services (GSA), before issuing a permit for the construction of such a work, to determine that the contract documents demonstrate that the material to be used in its construction complies with such requirement.
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Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5] · D–MI
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Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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