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 812 PUBLIC LAWS--H. 554 -JUNE 21, 193S [52 STAT. trative expenses in excess of the amounts which the department, establishment, or agency, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, shall have certified to the Secretary of the Adiztur ed expen- Treasury as necessary for such purposes. The amounts so certified for administrative expenses shall be available for expenditure by such department, establishment, or agency concerned for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and for the objects set 49 stat. 117. forth in subsection (a) of section 3 of the Emergency Relief Appro- priation Act of 1935 and with the authority set forth in subsection Li°tation (b) of such section of such Act: Provided, That not to exceed 5 amount for adminis- per centum of the amount made available in section 1 of this title to tration. the Works Progress Administration and to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration shall be used for administration. Rates of pay on SEc. 9. The rates of pay for persons engaged upon projects under the appropriations in this title shall be not less than the prevailing rates of pay for work of a similar nature in the same locality as PrOrfse. Labor standards determined by the Works Progress Administration: Provided, That tMmm. if minimum rates of pay for persons employed by private employers enacted, in any occupation are established by or pursuant to the authority Pot,p. ioco. conferred by any Labor Standards Act enacted at the third session of the Seventy-fifth Congress, not less than the minimum rates of pay so established shall be paid to persons in similar occupations in the same locality employed on projects under the appropriation in sub- section one of section one of this title. mplnoyment ofo SEC. 10. In the employment of persons on projects under the ap- t tore propriations in this title, applicants in actual need whose names have not heretofore been placed on relief rolls shall be given the same eligibility for employment as applicants whose names have hereto- rsion on m- fore appeared on such rolls: Provided, That in order to insure the ployment. fulfillment of the purposes for which such appropriations are made and to avoid competition between the Works Progress Administra- tion and other Federal or non-Federal agencies in the employment of labor on construction projects of any nature whatsoever, financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government, no relief worker shall be eligible for employment on any project of the Works Prog- ress Administration who has refused to accept employment on any other Federal or non-Federal project at a wage rate comparable with or higher than the wage rate established for similar work on proj- epstoratiton where ects of the Works Progress Administration: Provided further, That separation not due to ultofenrollee. any relief worker who has been engaged on any Federal or non- Federal project and whose service has been regularly terminated through no fault of his own shall not lose his eligibility for restora- tion to the relief rolls or for reemployment on any other Federal or non-Federal project on account of such previous employment: Pro- tionnotconidmere in vided further, That the fact that a person is entitled to or has determining employ received either adjusted-service bonds or a Treasury check in pay- ment of an adjusted-compensation certificate shall not be considered in determining actual need of such employment: Provided further, Quarterly state- That every relief worker employed on any Federal or non-Federal ments by relief work- er Works Progress Administration project shall be required, as a con- dition to his continued employment, to file quarterly a statement as to the amount of his earnings, if any, from outside employment while he was assigned to such a project, and the statements so filed shall be taken into consideration m assigning such workers to employment oNd diers. n such projects and in continuing them in such employment. Farm- ers in need and who need employment to supplement their farm income but who are not on relief rolls shall have the same eligibility for employment on projects in rural areas as persons on such rolls.

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