The Cox Bill leaves plenty of room for FFUists to fudge things. Here is the preamble:
[The Cox bill (P.L. 104-289) prohibits federal contract documents that are issued for bid after January 10, 1997, from solely specifying modular concrete block and modular metric recessed lighting fixtures unless analyses show that the installed costs of these products are no higher than the installed costs of similar inch-pound products. Since the bill took effect, most federal contract documents have specified block and fixtures in metric sizes but allowed inch-pound substitutions. In one case, however, contract documents for a federal building neglected to make such an allowance. The problem was remedied by issuing a letter from the responsible federal agency to the contractor stating that inch-pound concrete block and recessed lighting fixture substitutions were permitted. Federal managers and their A/E's must work to ensure that contract documents fully comply with the requirements of the Cox bill.] You can see the entire Cox Bill at http://www.nibs.org/Metric/CoxBill.PDF. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kilopascal Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 17:33 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:25164] metric in construction 2003-03-15 For some time, we have been hearing reports of one state after another reverting back to FFU as far as highway construction is concerned. But, we don't hear anything about federal construction. Is federal road construction still mostly metric? What about Federal buildings that are also suppose to be metric? Are new buildings still being built in metric, or has that reverted too? How many metric buildings do we have now in this country? Does anyone know the answer to this? John
