§4225 Treatment of Program Income and Labor Standards

Summary

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands may keep any extra money it earns from a grant if that money was earned after the first grant payment and the Director agrees to spend it on affordable housing. The Secretary cannot cut the Department’s grant just because the Department kept program income or because of how much it kept. The Secretary can make rules to ignore very small amounts if following the rule would create an unreasonable administrative burden. Any contract for help, sale, or lease under this program must require paying at least the local prevailing wages, as later set or adopted by the Secretary, to architects, engineers, draftsmen, technicians, and to workers doing maintenance and operation of the housing. Contracts must also require paying laborers and mechanics the wages set by the Secretary of Labor under sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40 for development work. These wage rules do not apply to true volunteers who are not otherwise employed in the construction work and who receive no pay or only expenses, reasonable benefits, or a small fee.