This is the basics I think. Page 673-674
16 SEC. 230. (a) Of the amount made available in this
17 Act under U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionPro
18 curement, Construction, and Improvements,
19 $1,571,000,000 shall be available only as follows:
20 (1) $251,000,000 for approximately 14 miles of
21 secondary fencing, all of which provides for cross
22 barrier visual situational awareness, along the south
23 west border in the San Diego Sector;
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1 (2) $445,000,000 for 25 miles of primary pe
2 destrian levee fencing along the southwest border in
3 the Rio Grande Valley Sector;
4 (3) $196,000,000 for primary pedestrian fenc
5 ing along the southwest border in the Rio Grande
6 Valley Sector;
7 (4) $445,000,000 for replacement of existing
8 primary pedestrian fencing along the southwest bor
9 der;
10 (5) $38,000,000 for border barrier planning
11 and design; and
12 (6) $196,000,000 for acquisition and deploy13
ment of border security technology.
14 (b) The amounts designated in subsection (a)(2)
15 through (a)(4) shall only be available for operationally ef
16 fective designs deployed as of the date of the Consolidated
17 Appropriations Act, 2017, (Public Law 11531), such as
18 currently deployed steel bollard designs, that prioritize
19 agent safety.
ok - that doesn’t seem like there is a prohibition only a definition of areas. Though I’ve found this in at least two sections so far:
(2) In this section, the term iron and steel products
means the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges,
March 21, 2018 (6:08 p.m.)
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1 pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-
2 forced precast concrete, and construction materials.
Notice the language states specifically that reinforced precast concrete is included in the definition of anyplace in that section that says “iron and steel”. Trying to figure out now where else this definition is used and if it is cross referenced somehow to other sections.