---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 720i"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "720i"
heading: "Sense of Congress concerning use of steel manufactured in North America and negotiation of a project labor agreement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/720i"
units:
  - "Chapter 15D — Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline"
---

# §720i. Sense of Congress concerning use of steel manufactured in North America and negotiation of a project labor agreement


It is the sense of Congress that—

- (1) an [Alaska natural gas transportation project](/usc/15/720.md?p=2) would provide significant economic benefits to the United States and Canada; and
- (2) to maximize those benefits, the sponsors of the [Alaska natural gas transportation project](/usc/15/720.md?p=2) should make every effort to—
  - (A) use steel that is manufactured in North America; and
  - (B) negotiate a project labor [agreement](/usc/15/7a.md?p=2) to expedite construction of the pipeline.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–324, div. C, § 111, Oct. 13, 2004, 118 Stat. 1263.)