3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, any surface highway or bridge contract made and awarded by a State contracting agency, shall contain a provision requiring that any iron or steel product used or supplied in the performance of the surface highway or bridge contract, or any subcontract thereto, and permanently incorporated into the surface highway or bridge, including miscellaneous components, as determined pursuant to regulations adopted by the State contracting agency, such as nuts and bolts and iron and steel that is a component of other items such as reinforced steel within precast concrete items, shall be produced or made, in whole, or in substantial part as determined by the State contracting agency, in the United States. In the case of a structural iron or structural steel product, all manufacturing shall take place in the United States, from the initial melting stage through the application of coatings, except metallurgical processes involving the refinement of steel additives.

L.2021, c.119, s.3.