### Question
What does affordable cost mean?


### Answer
**Affordable cost** has the following meaning in *15 U.S.C. § 2227*:

> the cost to a Federal agency of leasing office space in a building that is protected by an automatic sprinkler system or equivalent level of safety, which cost is no more than 10 percent greater than the cost of leasing available comparable office space in a building that is not so protected

#### Citation:
  - *15 U.S.C. § 2227*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 49-FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL**

