Public Interest De Minimis and Small Grants Waiver of Build America, Buy America Provisions as Applied to Recipients of HUD Federal Financial Assistance

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In accordance with the Build America, Buy America Act ("BABA" or "the Act") this notice advises that HUD has issued a departmentwide public interest De Minimis and Small Grants waiver to the Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference ("Buy America Preference," or "BAP") as applied to the iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials requirement of the Act for recipients of Federal Financial Assistance ("FFA"). For the purposes of this waiver, HUD has waived the application of the BAP for infrastructure projects whose total cost (including HUD funding and funding from any other source) is an amount equal to or less than the Simplified acquisition threshold, which is currently $250,000. HUD has also waived the application of the BAP for all Small Grants of FFA provided by HUD that are equal to or below the Simplified acquisition threshold, which is currently $250,000. However, if FFA provided by HUD is combined with other FFA from another Federal agency, and the total amount of FFA in a single project is greater than the Simplified acquisition threshold, currently $250,000, then the waiver shall not apply to the FFA provided by HUD. Additionally, HUD has wai