For each contract for climate change adaptive infrastructure projects, funded in part or in whole from the climate change adaptation fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-m of the state finance law, by a public entity, or a third party acting on behalf and for the benefit of a public entity, the "public work" for the purposes of this subdivision shall ensure that such contract shall contain a provision that the iron and steel used or supplied in the performance of the contract or any subcontract thereto, shall be produced or made in whole or substantial part in the United States, its territories or possessions. In the case of an iron or steel product all manufacturing must take place in the United States, from the initial melting stage through the application of coatings, except metallurgical processes involving the refinement of steel additives.