(1) Where steel piles are used in deep foundations and act as permanent load-carrying members, the steel shall conform with one of the following standards:
(a) ASTM A252, “Welded and Seamless Steel Pipe Piles”,
(b) ASTM A283 / A283M, “Low and Intermediate Tensile Strength Carbon Steel Plates”,
(c) ASTM A1008 / A1008M , “Steel, Sheet, Cold-Rolled, Carbon, Structural, High-Strength Low-Alloy, and High-Strength Low-Alloy with Improved Formability, Solution Hardened, and Bake Hardenable”,
(d) ASTM A1011 / A1011M, “Steel, Sheet and Strip, Hot-Rolled, Carbon, Structural, High-Strength Low-Alloy, High-Strength Low-Alloy with Improved Formability, and Ultra-High Strength”, or
(e) CSA G40.21, “Structural Quality Steel”.