Sec. 2. Standard design in capital construction
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It is the sense of Congress that the Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations
(OBO)or successor office should give appropriate consideration to standard embassy design, in which each new embassy and new consulate starts with a standard design and keeps customization to a minimum. The Secretary of State shall, in consultation with the appropriate congressional committees, carry out any new embassy compound project or new consulate compound project that is in the design phase or pre-design phase as of the date of the enactment of this Act and that utilizes a non-standard design. The Secretary shall provide such committees, for each such project, the following documentation: A comparison of the estimated full lifecycle costs of the project at issue to the estimated full lifecycle costs of such project if such project were to use a standard embassy design. A comparison of the estimated completion date of such project to the estimated completion date of such project if such project were to use a standard embassy design. A comparison of the security of such completed project to the security of such completed project if such completed project were to use a standard embassy design. A justification for the Secretary’s selection of a non-standard design over a standard embassy design for such project. A written explanation if any of the documentation necessary to support the comparisons and justification, as the case may be, described in paragraphs
(1)through
(4)cannot be provided.