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§1372 Labor Standards

Title 33 › CHAPTER 26 — WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › SUBCHAPTER V — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 1372

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must make sure that all laborers and mechanics hired by contractors or subcontractors on treatment works paid for with grants under this chapter get paid at least the local prevailing wage for the same kind of construction work. The Secretary of Labor sets those prevailing rates under sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40 and has the powers listed in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176) and section 3145 of title 40.

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Title 33, §1372

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The Administrator shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on treatment works for which grants are made under this chapter shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for the same type of work on similar construction in the immediate 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 subsection, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176) and section 3145 of title 40.

Legislative History

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References in Text

Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is Reorg. Plan No. 14 of 1950, eff.
May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3176, 64 Stat. 1267, which 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, as amended, known as the Davis-Bacon Act (46 Stat. 1494; 40 U.S.C., sec. 276a through 276a–5)” and “section 3145 of title 40” substituted for “section 2 of the Act of
June 13, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 948; 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.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Applicability of Labor Standards to

Construction

of Treatment Works Pub. L. 112–74, div. E, title II, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 1020, provided in part that: “For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, the requirements of section 513 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1372) shall apply to the

Construction

of treatment works carried out in whole or in part with assistance made available by a State water pollution control revolving fund as authorized by title VI of that Act (33 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.), or with assistance made available under section 205(m) of that Act (33 U.S.C. 1285(m)), or both.”

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1372

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110