The Federal Railroad Administration FRA is seeking comments on whether to grant a waiver of its Buy America requirements to the California High-Speed Rail Authority the Authority to use certain products that are not produced in the United States for use in the California Inaugural High-Speed Rail Service Project between Merced California and Bakersfield California Project. FRA is funding the Project under the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program FSP Program therefore FRA's Buy America requirements apply to the Project. FRA's Buy America requirements include both FRA's statutory requirements which require 100 percent of the manufactured products and steel and iron used in an FRA-funded project to be produced in the United States and the Build America Buy America Act BABA which requires that all construction materials used in the FRA-funded project be produced in the United States. FRA is not proposing to waive the applicable BABA requirements for construction materials used in the Project. The proposed waiver would apply to the aluminum car shells signal systems high-speed rail turnouts and fire alarm systems based on the domestic nonavailability of such