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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§2297g–3 Employee provisions

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING › § 2297g–3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Workers hired by contractors or subcontractors to decontaminate or decommission Department uranium enrichment facilities must be paid at least the local prevailing wage for similar work, as set by the Secretary of Labor under sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The Secretary has the authority in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176, 64 Stat. 1267) and section 3145 of title 40. This does not require that the work be contracted out.

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Title 42, §2297g–3

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of decontamination or decommissioning of uranium enrichment facilities of the Department shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on projects of a similar character in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with section 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this section, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176, 64 Stat. 1267) and section 3145 of title 40. This section may not be construed to require the contracting out of activities associated with the decontamination or decommissioning of uranium enrichment facilities.

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Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Codification In text, “section 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40” substituted for “the Act of
March 3, 1931 (known as the Davis-Bacon Act) (40 U.S.C. 276a et seq.)” and “section 3145 of title 40” substituted for “the Act of
June 13, 1934 (40 U.S.C. 276c)”, on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 2297g–3

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73