[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1.3]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
PART 1_PROCEDURES FOR PREDE TERMINATION OF WAGE RATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.3  Obtaining and compiling wage rate information.

    For the purpose of making wage determinations, the Administrator 
will conduct a continuing program for the obtaining and compiling of 
wage rate information.
    (a) The Administrator will encourage the voluntary submission of 
wage rate data by contractors, contractors' associations, labor 
organizations, public officials and other interested parties, reflecting 
wage rates paid to laborers and mechanics on various types of 
construction in the area. The Administrator may also obtain data from 
agencies on wage rates paid on construction projects under their 
jurisdiction. The information submitted should reflect not only the wage 
rates paid a particular classification in an area, but also the type or 
types of construction on which such rate or rates are paid, and whether 
or not such rates were paid on Federal or federally assisted projects 
subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements.
    (b) The following types of information may be considered in making 
wage rate determinations:
    (1) Statements showing wage rates paid on projects. Such statements 
should include the names and addresses of contractors, including 
subcontractors, the locations, approximate costs, dates of construction 
and types of projects, whether or not the projects are Federal or 
federally assisted projects subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage 
requirements, the number of workers employed in each classification on 
each project, and the respective wage rates paid such workers.
    (2) Signed collective bargaining agreements. The Administrator may 
request the parties to an agreement to submit statements certifying to 
its scope and application.
    (3) Wage rates determined for public construction by State and local 
officials pursuant to State and local prevailing wage legislation.
    (4) In making wage rate determinations pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 113, 
the highway department of the State in which a project in the Federal-
Aid highway system is to be performed shall be consulted. Before making 
a determination of wage rates for such a

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project the Administrator shall give due regard to the information thus 
obtained.
    (5) Wage rate data submitted to the Department of Labor by 
contracting agencies pursuant to 29 CFR 5.5(a)(1)(ii).
    (6) Any other information pertinent to the determination of 
prevailing wage rates.
    (c) The Administrator may initially obtain or supplement such 
information obtained on a voluntary basis by such means, including the 
holding of hearings, and from any sources determined to be necessary. 
All information of the types described in Sec. 1.3(b) of this part, 
pertinent to the determination of the wages prevailing at the time of 
issuance of the wage determination, will be evaluated in the light of 
Sec. 1.2(a) of this part.
    (d) In compiling wage rate data for building and residential wage 
determinations, the Administrator will not use data from Federal or 
federally assisted projects subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage 
requirements unless it is determined that there is insufficient wage 
data to determine the prevailing wages in the absence of such data. Data 
from Federal or federally assisted projects will be used in compiling 
wage rate data for heavy and highway wage determinations.

[48 FR 19533, Apr. 29, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 4506, Jan. 31, 1985]