[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1.5]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
PART 1_PROCEDURES FOR PREDE TERMINATION OF WAGE RATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.5  Procedure for requesting wage determinations.

    (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, the 
Federal agency shall initially request a wage determination under the 
Davis-Bacon Act or any of its related prevailing wage statutes by 
submitting Standard Form 308 to the Department of Labor at this address:

U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Wage and 
Hour Division, Branch of Construction Contract Wage Determination, 
Washington, DC 20210.


The agency shall check only those classifications on the applicable form 
which will be needed in the performance of the work. Inserting a note 
such as ``entire schedule'' or ``all applicable classifications'' is not 
sufficient. Additional classifications needed which are not on the form 
may be typed in the blank spaces or on a separate list and attached to 
the form.
    (2) In completing SF-308, the agency shall furnish:
    (i) A sufficiently detailed description of the work to indicate the 
type of construction involved. Additional description or separate 
attachment, if necessary for identification of type of project, shall be 
furnished.
    (ii) The county (or other civil subdivision) and State in which the 
proposed project is located.
    (3) Such request for a wage determination shall be accompanied by 
any pertinent wage payment information which may be available. When the 
requesting agency is a State highway department under the Federal-Aid 
Highway Acts as codified in 23 U.S.C. 113, such agency shall also 
include its recommendations as to the wages which are prevailing for 
each classification of laborers and mechanics on similar construction in 
the area.
    (b) Whenever the wage patterns in a particular area for a particular 
type of construction are well settled and whenever it may be reasonably 
anticipated that there will be a large volume of procurement in that 
area for such a type of construction, the Administrator, upon the 
request of a Federal

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agency or in his/her discretion, may furnish notice of a general wage 
determination in the Federal Register when, after consideration of the 
facts and circumstances involved, the Administrator finds that the 
applicable statutory standards and those of this part will be met. If 
there is a general wage determination applicable to the project, the 
agency may use it without notifying the Department of Labor, Provided, 
That questions concerning its use shall be referred to the Department of 
Labor in accordance with Sec. 1.6(b). General wage determinations are 
published in the Government Printing Office (GPO) document entitled 
``General Wage Determinations Issued Under The Davis-Bacon And Related 
Acts''. (See appendix C for publication details and information on how 
to obtain general wage determinations.)
    (c) The time required for processing requests for wage 
determinations varies according to the facts and circumstances in each 
case. An agency should anticipate that such processing in the Department 
of Labor will take at least 30 days.

[48 FR 19533, Apr. 29, 1983, as amended at 48 FR 503l3, Nov. 1, 1983; 50 
FR 49823, Dec. 4, 1985]