---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2297g–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2297g–3"
heading: "Employee provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2297g-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division B — United States Enrichment Corporation"
  - "Subchapter VII — Decontamination and Decommissioning"
---

# §2297g–3. Employee provisions


All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of decontamination or decommissioning of [uranium enrichment](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=14) facilities of the Department shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) of a similar character in the locality as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Labor in accordance with sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) 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](/usc/40/3145.md). This section may not be construed to require the contracting out of activities associated with the decontamination or decommissioning of [uranium enrichment](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=14) facilities.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title II, § 1804, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title XI, § 1101, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2955.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

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, “sections 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.