Reorganization Plan No. 14 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1267). Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a-7). Copeland Act (40 U.S.C. 276c). Contract Work Hours Standards Act (40 US.C. 327-331). Any statute enacted after July 1, 1967 which incorporates by reference any provisions of any of the statutes listed above. Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 (23 U.S.C. 113). National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1713, 1715a, 1715c, 1715k, 1715(d) (3) and (4), 1715v, 1715w, 1715x, 1743, 1747, 1748b, 1748h-2, 1750g). Hospital Survey and Construction Act (42 U.S.C. 291h). Federal Airport Act (49 U.S.C. 1114). Housing Act of 1949 (42 US.C. 1459). School Survey and Construction Act of 1950 (20 U.S.C. 636). Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951 (42 U.S.C. 1592i). United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1416). Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2281). Area Redevelopment Act (42 U.S.C. 2518). Delaware River Basin Compact (sec. 15.1, 75 Stat. 714). Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963 (42 U.S.C. 292d (c) (4), 293a (c) (5)). Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act (42 U.S.C. 295(a) (2) (d), 2662(5), 2675(a) (5)). Community Mental Health Centers Act (42 U.S.C. 2685 (a) (5)). Vocational Educational Act of 1963 (20 U.S.C. 35f). Library Services and Construction Act (20 U.S.C. 355c(a) (4)). Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (sec. 10a, 78 Stat. 307). Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (sec. 607, 78 Stat. 532). Housing Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 797). The Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act of 1964 (sec. 7, 78 Stat. 199). The Nurse Training Act of 1964 (sec. 2, 78 Stat. 910). Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 239). Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 5, 21, sec. 402). National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 845). The Research and Development in High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-220). National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act (79 Stat. 125, 126, sec. 5(b) (5)). National Capital Transportation Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-173). Alaska Centennial (Public Law 89-375). Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-754). Federal Aid Highway Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-574). Models Secondary School for the Deaf Act (Public Law 89-694). Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-751). 2. Authority. This order is issued under authority of 5 U.S.C. 301, Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1263), and the plan and the statutes referred to in paragraph 1 hereof. 3. Previous directives affected. Paragraph 11 of Secretary's Order No. 32-63 (29 F.R. 118) is hereby revoked. 4. Delegation of authority and assignment of responsibility—(a) Solicitor of Labor. Except with reference to the duties specified in subparagraph (c) below, the Solicitor of Labor shall carry out the functions of the Secretary of Labor under the Wage and Hour standards provisions of the statutes and reorganization plan referred to in paragraph 1 hereof and generally interpret, administer and apply these statutes. This authority and responsibility shall include: (1) Determining wage rates as authorized under such statutes, including resolution of conformable rate questions existing under contracts subject to such statutes; (2) performing the enforcement functions of the Secretary of Labor; (3) interpreting the statutes and reorganization plan referred to in paragraph 1; and (4) granting or revoking such variations, tolerances and exemptions as are authorized by any of the statutes referred to with regard to construction work. (b) Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations. The Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations shall provide supervision to the Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions in the performance of the functions delegated to him in subparagraph (c) of this paragraph. (c) Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions. The Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions, or his delegate, shall (1) conduct investigations with respect to compliance and enforcement of labor standards prescribed under the statutes referred to in paragraph 1 hereof, determine the investigation program, settle cases of violations where appropriate, upon the payment of wages withheld and liquidated damages due, coordinate the enforcement activities of the contracting agencies, request the contracting agencies to withhold funds and authorize the disbursement of such funds to accomplish payment of wages withheld, receive complaints of violations and investigations from contracting agencies, (2) grant or revoke such variations, tolerances, and exemptions as are authorized by any of the statutes referred to in paragraph 1 hereof with regard to nonconstruction work and (3) approve or disapprove recommendations of the contracting agencies concerning relief from liquidated damages. 5. Effective date. This order shall take effect immediately. Signed at Washington, D.C., this 19th day of October 1967. W. WILLARD WIRTZ, Sec. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Scope of consideration (exclusive of wage rate determinations made pursuant to the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which shall be made in accordance with § 1.3(b) (4) of this part.) Field survey. Hearings. Pre-hearing conferences. 1.10 Hearing examiner's proposed decision. 1.11 Submission of hearing examiner's proposed decision to interested AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 1 issued under R.S. 161, 64 Stat. 1267; sec. 2, 48 Stat. 948; sec. 10, 61 Stat. 89; 5 U.S.C. 22, 133g-15 note; 40 U.S.C. 276c; 29 U.S.C. 258. Interpret or apply sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1494, 49 Stat. 1011; sec. 212 added to c. 847, 48 Stat. 1246 by sec. 14, 53 Stat. 807; sec. 602, added to c. 94, 64 Stat. 77 at 73 Stat. 681; sec. 2, 60 Stat. 1041; sec. 15, 60 Stat. 178; sec. 307(f); 63 Stat. 430; sec. 205, 64 Stat. 973; sec. 310, 65 Stat. 307; sec. 201, 64 Stat. 1248; sec. 3, 72 Stat. 532; sec. 108, 72 Stat. 895; sec. 6, 62 Stat. 1158; sec. 15, 75 Stat. 714; sec. 21, 75 Stat. 613; sec. 15, 75 Stat. 688; sec. 721, 77 Stat. 167; secs. 101, 122, 135, 205, 77 Stat. 282, 284, and 288. 40 U.S.C. 276a; 12 U.S.C. 1701q, 1715c, 1749a; 42 U.S.C. 291h, 1416, 1459, 1592; 29 U.S.C. 1114, 20 U.S.C. 636; 23 U.S.C. 113; 50 U.S.C. App. 2281; 33 U.S.C. 466e. SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 1 appear at 29 F.R. 95, Jan. 4, 1964, unless otherwise noted. § 1.1 Purpose and scope. The regulations contained in this part set forth the procedure for the determination of wage rates pursuant to each of the following acts: Davis Bacon Act, National Housing Act, Hospital Survey and Construction Act, Federal Airport Act, Housing Act of 1949, School Survey and Construction Act of 1950, Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951, Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, College Housing Act of 1950, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Area Redevelopment Act, Delaware River Basin Compact Housing Act of 1959, and Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963, Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act, Community Mental Health Centers Act, Higher Educational Facilities Act of 1963, Vocational Educational Act of 1963, Library Services and Construction Act, Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Hospital Medical Facilities Amendments of 1964, Housing Act of 1964, The Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act of 1964, The Nurse Training Act of 1964, and such other statutes as may, from time to time, confer upon the Secretary of Labor similar wage determining authority. (5 U.S.C. 22) [29 F.R. 13462, Sept. 30, 1964] § 1.2 Definitions.1 (a) The term “prevailing wage rate” for each classification of laborers and mechanics which the Solicitor shall regard as prevailing in an area shall mean: (1) The rate of wages paid in the area in which the work is to be performed, to the majority of those employed in that classification in construction in the area similar to the proposed undertaking; (2) In the event that there is not a majority paid at the same rate, then the rate paid to the greater number: Provided, Such greater number constitutes 30 percent of those employed; or (3) In the event that less than 30 percent of those so employed receive the same rate, then the average rate. (b) The term "area" in determining wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act and the prevailing wage provisions of the other statutes listed in § 1.1 shall mean the city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State in which the work is to be performed. In determining wage rates pursuant to section 115 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the College Housing Act of 1950, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the term "area" shall mean immediate locality of the proposed project. (c) The term "average rate" for each classification in an area shall mean the rate obtained by adding the hourly rates paid to all workers in the classification and dividing by the total number of such workers. (d) The term "Solicitor" shall mean the Solictor of Labor. (e) The term "wages" (and its singular form) has the meaning prescribed in section 1(b) of the Davis-Bacon Act. It includes "other bona fide fringe benefits" than those expressly enumerated in the Act. This permits, among other things, the inclusion of "bona fide fringe benefits" in prevailing wage determinations under the Act for a particular area when the payment of such fringe benefits constitutes a prevailing practice. In finding whether or not it is the prevailing area practice to pay such fringe benefits, the Solicitor shall be guided by the tests of prevalence similar to those prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section. [29 F.R. 95, Jan. 4, 1964, as amended at 29 F.R. 13462, Sept. 30, 1964] § 1.3 Obtaining and compiling wage rate information. For the purpose of making wage rate determinations, the Solicitor shall conduct a continuing program for the obtaining and compiling of wage rate information. (a) The Solicitor shall encourage the voluntary submission of wage rate data by contractors, contractors' associations, labor organizations, public officials, and other interested parties, reflecting wage rates paid to laborers and mechanics on various types of construction in the area. Rates must be determined, among others, for such varying types of projects as buildings, bridges, dams, highways, tunnels, sewers, power lines, railways, airports (buildings and runways), apartments houses, wharves, levees, canals, dredging, land-clearing and excavating. Accordingly, the information submitted should reflect not only that the specified wage rate or rates are paid to a 1 These definitions are not intended to restrict the meaning of the terms as used in the applicable statutes. particular craft in an area, but also the type or types of construction on which such rate or rates are paid: (b) The following types of information will be considered in making wage rate determinations: (1) Statements showing wage rates paid on projects. (Such statements should indicate the names and addresses of contractors, including subcontractors, the locations, approximate costs, dates of construction and types of projects, the number of workers employed in each classification on each project, and the respective wage rates paid such workers.); (2) Signed collective bargaining agreements. (The Solicitor may request the parties to an agreement to submit statements certifying to its scope and application.); (3) Wage rate determined for public construction by state and local officials pursuant to prevailing wage legislation; (4) Information furnished by Federal and State agencies. See § 5.3 of this subtitle. (In making wage rate determinations pursuant to section 115 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the Solicitor shall consult with the highway department of the State in which a project in the Interstate System is to be performed. Before making a determination of wage rates for such a project he shall give due regard to the information thus obtained.); (5) Any other information pertinent to the determination of prevailing wage rates. (c) The Solicitor shall supplement such information obtained on a voluntary basis by such means, including the holding of hearings, and from whatever sources he deems necessary. § 1.4 Outline of agency construction programs. To the extent practicable, at the beginning of each fiscal year each agency using wage determinations under any of the various statutes listed in § 1.1 shall furnish the Solicitor with a general outline of its proposed construction programs for the coming year indicating the estimate number of projects for which wage determinations will be required, the anticipated types of construction, and the locations of construction. During the fiscal year, each agency shall notify the Solicitor of any significant changes in its proposed construction programs, as outlined at the beginning of the fiscal year. § 1.5 Determination of wage rates. In the event that the data compiled under § 1.3 is sufficient to determine the prevailing wage rates the Solicitor shall make a determination as to the wage rates prevailing in the area. § 1.6 Scope of consideration (exclusive of wage rate determinations made pursuant to the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which shall be made in accordance with § 1.3(b)(4) of this part). (a) In making a wage rate determination projects completed more than one year prior to the date of request for the determination may, but need not be considered. (b) If there has been no similar construction within the area in the past year, wage rates paid on the nearest similar construction may be considered. §1.7 Field survey. Whenever the Solicitor deems that the data at hand are insufficient to make a determination with respect to all the crafts necessary to perform the proposed construction work, he may have a field survey conducted in the area of the proposed project for the purpose of obtaining sufficient information upon which to make a determination of wage rates. § 1.8 Hearings. Whenever he deems it necessary because of insufficiency of information or impracticality of a field survey, or both, the Solicitor may direct a hearing to be held. He shall designate a hearing examiner who shall, after notice to all interested persons, proceed to the project area and make such investigations and conduct such hearings as may be necessary to make a determination of wage rates for the project. § 1.9 Pre-hearing conferences. When it appears that a pre-hearing conference will expedite proceedings, the examiner prior to the hearing may request interested persons to attend a conference to consider such matters as may expedite the hearing. §1.10 Hearing examiner's proposed decision. The hearing examiner shall make a written proposed decision in which he shall: (a) State the procedure that he has followed; (b) Summarize briefly the evidence and information that he has received; (c) Analyze the evidence and information; (d) Draft a proposed decision for the Solicitor's consideration. § 1.11 Submission of hearing examiner's proposed decision to interested persons. A copy of the hearing examiner's proposed decision shall be mailed to each interested person appearing at the hearing. § 1.12 Exceptions of interested persons. Any interested person may within 5 days after receipt of the hearing examiner's proposed decision file his exceptions thereto. Such exceptions shall be filed with the Chief Hearing Examiner, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington 25, D.C., for transmission to the Solicitor. §1.13 Decision of Solicitor. The Solicitor shall rule upon any exceptions filed under § 1.12, and shall make a determination as to the prevailing wage rates for the project. § 1.14 Review by Wage Appeals Board. Any interested person may appeal to the Wage Appeals Board for a review of a determination of wage rates by the Solicitor under this part, or any findings and conclusions made on the record of any hearings held under § 1.3(c). Any such appeal may, in the discretion of the Wage Appeals Board, be received, accepted, and decided in accordance with such procedures as the Board may establish. § 1.15 Public information. Papers and documents containing information furnishing the basis for any determination of wage rates shall be available for public inspection under the procedure prescribed in § 2.6(a) of this subtitle. Copies of such papers and documents may be obtained without regard to the procedure prescribed in § 2.9 of this subtitle. The application of these procedures shall ensure that disclosure of the relevant information will be made in a manner which will not be detrimental to the public interest or to any person voluntarily submitting information who requested that such information be held confidential. CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS ON PUBLIC BUILDING OR PUBLIC WORK FINANCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY LOANS OR GRANTS FROM THE UNITED STATES Sec. 3.1 Purpose and scope. 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 Definitions. 29 C.F.R., Subtitle A, Pt. 3 Weekly statement with respect to payment of wages. Submission of weekly statements and the preservation and inspection Payroll deductions permissible without application to or approval of the Payroll deductions permissible with the approval of the Secretary of Applications for the approval of the Secretary of Labor. Action by the Secretary of Labor upon applications. Prohibited payroll deductions. Methods of payment of wages. Regulations part of contract. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 3 issued under R.S. 161, sec. 2, 48 Stat. 848; Reorg. Plan No. 14 of 1950, 64 Stat. 1267; 5 U.S.C. 22, 133z-15 note; 40 U.S.C. 276c. SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 3 appear at 29 F.R. 97, Jan. 4, 1964, unless otherwise noted. |