Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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becomes more mainstream, products are more readily
available. The design industry is more well versed
in how to most efficiently meet the lead score card
requirements.
But I'm curious. What kind of first cost
premiums have you seen and are you seeing a
reduction in those costs like we are, outside of the
OBO environment?
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GENERAL WILLIAMS: Bill? All right, Donna?
MS. McINTIRE: I can speak to that. We did
a study early on, maybe five, almost five years ago
maybe, where we studied where we are because lead
always, how much lead costs depends on where you are
as a program. If you start and you already have
commissioning in your program, then it's not an
increased cost for you to achieve lead because you
have to do that.
So, initially, there was about a $200,000
cost, initially, to add those types of things that
we weren't doing that we would have to do in order
to achieve lead certification, which is just the 26
points. But now what we're seeing is that a lot of
these ideas and requirements have been integrated
into the said documents, into the requirements of
the specification. So what we're seeing now is that
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