---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7614"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7614"
heading: "Labor standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7614"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter III — General Provisions"
---

# §7614. Labor standards


The [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) assisted under this chapter shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for the same type of work on similar [construction](/usc/42/7479.md?p=2-C) 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 subsection,[^1] 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).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section,”.

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 314, formerly § 307, as added Pub. L. 90–148, § 2, Nov. 21, 1967, 81 Stat. 506; renumbered § 314 and amended Pub. L. 91–604, §§ 12(a), 15(c)(2), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1705, 1713.)

## 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, as amended, known as the Davis-Bacon Act (46 Stat. 1494; 40 U.S.C. 276a—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.

Section was formerly classified to section 1857j–3 of this title.

### Amendments

1970—Pub. L. 91–604, § 15(c)(2), substituted “Administrator” for “Secretary” meaning the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.