---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6979"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6979"
heading: "Labor standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6979"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §6979. Labor standards


No grant for a [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) of [construction](/usc/42/6903.md?p=2) under this chapter shall be made unless the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) finds that the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurance that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) of the type covered by sections 3141–3144, [3146](/usc/40/3146.md), and [3147](/usc/40/3147.md) of title 40, will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar work in the locality as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Labor in accordance with those sections; and 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) and [section 3145 of title 40](/usc/40/3145.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 7009, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2828; amended Pub. L. 96–482, § 28, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2349.)

## 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 Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a—276a–5)”, “those sections” substituted for “that Act”, and “section 3145 of title 40” substituted for “section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (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.

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 3256 of this title, prior to the general amendment of the Solid Waste Disposal Act by Pub. L. 94–580.

### Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–482 substituted “Administrator” for “Secretary”.