Sec. 202. Standard design in capital construction
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It is the sense of Congress that the Department’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations
(OBO)or successor office should give appropriate consideration to Standard Embassy Design, in which each new United States embassy and consulate starts with a standard design and keeps customization to a minimum. The Secretary shall carry out any new United States embassy compound or new consulate compound project that utilizes a non-standard design, including those projects that are in the design or pre-design phase as of the date of the enactment of this Act, only in consultation with the appropriate congressional committees. The Secretary shall provide the appropriate congressional committees, for each such project, the following documentation: A comparison of the estimated full lifecycle costs of the project to the estimated full lifecycle costs of such project if it were to use a standard design. A comparison of the estimated completion date of such project to the estimated completion date of such project if it were to use a standard design. A comparison of the security of the completed project to the security of such completed project if it were to use a standard design. A justification for the Secretary’s selection of a non-standard design over a standard 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. The consultation requirement under subsection
(b)shall expire on the date that is four years after the date of the enactment of this Act.