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PROCLAMATION 4031-FEB. 23, 1971

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ticipate actively in programs designed to promote better protection against accidental poisonings, particularly as they relate to young children. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fifth.

PROCLAMATION 4031

Proclaiming the Suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931 By the President of the United States of America

February 23, 1971

A Proclamation Section 1 of the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1494, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 276a), provides: "... every contract in excess of $2,000, to which the United States or the District of Columbia is a party, for construction, alteration, and/or repair, including painting and decorating, of public buildings or public works of the United States or the District of Columbia within the geographical limits of the States of the Union, or the District of Columbia, and which requires or involves the employment of mechanics and/or laborers shall contain a provision stating the minimum wages to be paid various classes of laborers and mechanics which shall be based upon the wages that will be determined by the Secretary of Labor to be prevailing for the corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on projects of a character similar to the contract work in the city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State in which the work is to be performed, or in the District of Columbia if the work is to be performed there..."; Various other acts provide for the payment of wages, with these provisions dependent upon determinations by the Secretary of Labor under the Davis-Bacon Act. The Nation is now confronted by a set of conditions involving the construction industry which, taken together, create an emergency situation:

49 Stat. 1011; 78 Stat. 2 3 8.

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