EPA 'BUY AMERICAN' WAIVER SOUGHT TO PREVENT BOOST FOR CONVICTED FIRM

摘要

Critics of the stimulus law's "Buy American" procurement rules are urging the Obama administration to waive the rules for EPA water infrastructure funds, charging it could secure a partial monopoly for Me Wane Inc. - a U.S. pipe manufacturer recently convicted of multiple environmental crimes and still under active investigation.rnThe critics - including Canadian government officials, as well as industry and states - are also lobbying Congress to strip "Buy American" language from a recently passed House bill authorizing EPA water infrastructure funds through 2014 when the bill is conferenced with a companion Senate bill that is silent on the issue.