Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/678

 94 STAT. 628

Wages.

5 USC app.

"Synthetic fuel action." 50 USC app. 2097. Transmittal to Congress.

PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980 "(i) For purposes of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)), no action in providing any loan, guarantee, or purchase agreement under this section, shall be deemed to be a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. "(j) All laborers and mechanics employed for the construction, repair, or alteration of any synthetic fuel project funded, in whole or in part, by a guarantee or loan entered into pursuant to this section shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on projects of a similar character in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed on public buildings of the United States and the District of Columbia by contractors and subcontractors and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1931 (40 U.S.C. 276a et seq.) and commonly known as the Davis-Bacon Act. Guaranteeing agencies shall not extend guarantees and the President shall not make loans for the construction, repair or alteration of any synthetic fuel project unless a certification is provided to the agency or the President, as the case may be, prior to the commencement of construction or at the time of filing an application for a loan or guarantee, if construction has already commenced, that these labor standards will be maintained at the synthetic fuel project. With respect to the labor standards specified in this subsection, the Secretary of Labor shall have the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 and section 276(c) of title 40. "(k)(1) Nothing in this section shall— "(A) affect the jurisdiction of the States and the United States over waters of any stream or over any ground water resource; "(B) alter, amend, repeal, interpret, modify, or be in conflict with any interstate compact made by any States; or "(C) confer upon any non-Federal entity the ability to exercise any Federal right to the waters of any stream or to any ground water resource. "(2) No synthetic fuel project constructed pursuant to the authorities of this section shall be considered to be a Federal project for purposes of the application for or assignment of water righte. "(1) Renewals and extensions of contracts entered into under this section shall be made only to the extent that Congress has specifically appropriated funds for such renewals and extensions, unless the President certifies that the determinations under section 306(a)(1) remain in effect for purposes of the use of such authority. "SEC. 307. (a) For purposes of this section, the term 'sjnithetic fuel action' means any matter required to be transmitted, or submitted to the Congress in accordance with the procedures of this section. "(b) The President shall transmit any sjnithetic fuel action (bearing an identification number) to both Houses of the Congress on the same day. If both Houses are not in session on the day on which any synthetic fuel action is received by the appropriate officers of each House, such S3nithetic fuel action shall be deemed to have been received on the first succeeding day on which both Houses are in session. "(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and in subsection (e), if a synthetic fuel action is transmitted to both Houses of Congress, such synthetic fuel action shall take effect at the end of the first period of 30 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which such synthetic fuel action is received by such Houses, unless

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