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Title 41 — Public ContractsRelease 119-73not60

§6509 Other Procedures

Title 41 › Subtitle Subtitle II— Other Advertising and Contract Provisions › Chapter 65— CONTRACTS FOR MATERIALS, SUPPLIES, ARTICLES, AND EQUIPMENT EXCEEDING $10,000 › § 6509

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Follow certain federal administrative and court-review rules when handling the federal wage laws, even if other usual rulemaking steps do not apply. If a contract has statements or agreements about wages, people with an interest can still go to court over legal questions, such as wage decisions and what the terms "locality" and "open market" mean. A person harmed by a wage decision can ask a court to review it within 90 days of the decision. "Person harmed" includes a business in the affected industry that supplies materials or equipment the government buys.

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Title 41, §6509

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(a)Notwithstanding section 553 of title 5, subchapter II of chapter 5 and chapter 7 of title 5 are applicable in the administration of sections 6501 to 6507 and 6511 of this title.
(b)Notwithstanding the inclusion of representations and stipulations in a contract under section 6502 of this title, an interested person has the right of judicial review of any legal question which might otherwise be raised, including wage determinations and the interpretation of the terms “locality” and “open market”.
(c)A person adversely affected or aggrieved by a wage determination under section 6502(1) of this title has the right of judicial review of the determination, or of the applicability of the determination, within 90 days after the determination is made, in the manner provided by chapter 7 of title 5. A person adversely affected or aggrieved by a wage determination is deemed to include a person in an industry to which the determination applies that is a supplier of materials, supplies, articles, or equipment that are purchased or intended to be purchased by the Federal Government from any source.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 6509(a)41:43a(a).June 30, 1936, ch. 881, § 10(a), (b) (last sentence), (c), as added June 30, 1952, ch. 530, title III, § 301, 66 Stat. 308; Pub. L. 103–355, title VII, § 7201(2), (3), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3378. 6509(b)41:43a(c). 6509(c)41:43a(b) (last sentence). Subsection (a) is substituted for “Notwithstanding any provision of section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act, such Act shall be applicable in the administration of sections 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 of this Act” in section 10 of the Act of June 30, 1936 (ch. 881), for consistency in the revised title and because of section 7(b) of Public Law 89–554 (5 U.S.C. note prec. 101). In subsection (c), the words “has the right of judicial review” are substituted for “Review . . . may be had” for consistency with subsection (b) and with section 6510(b) of the revised title and because the review provided for in chapter 7 of title 5 is denominated as judicial review. The words “chapter 7 of title 5” are substituted for “section 10 of the Administrative Procedure Act” on authority of section 7(b) of Public Law 89–554 (5 U.S.C. note prec. 101).

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41 U.S.C. § 6509

Title 41 — Public Contracts

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60