A Michigan manufacturer stands to become the U.S. government’s preferred supplier of yellow pigment used in road and highway markings across the country if a provision in the House’s sweeping surface transportation reauthorization bill becomes law.
Section 1328 — on page 270 of the 1,005-page text released Sunday — would require the Transportation secretary to study the “feasibility” of including yellow paint, as well as the pigment that goes into making water-based paint, among the construction materials subject to Buy America requirements enacted in the 2021 infrastructure law.
