Legislation passed in October direc...

Legislation passed in October directs federal agencies to specify cake block and recessed lighting fixtures in modular metric sizes - provided that installed outlays are "estimated to be equal to or les than the total installed price of using non-hard metric products" The law applies to frames put out for bid after January 1997
Legislation originally introduced in the House by means of Rep. Chris Cox of California sought to prohibit federal agencies from specifying these brace products in "hard" metric dimensions. The more moderate position was adopted from the ...