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departments of the Government giving the names of persons or firms whom he has found to have disregarded their obligations to employees and subcontractors. No contract shall be awarded to the persons or firms appearing on this list or to any firm, corporation, partnership, or association in which such persons or firms have an interest until three years have elapsed from the date of publication of the list containing the names of such persons or firms.

(b) If the accrued payments withheld under the terms of the contract, as aforesaid, are insufficient to reimburse all the laborers and mechanics with respect to whom there has been a failure to pay the wages required pursuant to this Act, such laborers and mechanics shall have the right of action and/or of intervention against the contractor and his sureties conferred by law upon persons furnishing labor or materials, and in such proceedings it shall be no defense that such laborers and mechanics accepted or agreed to accept less than the required rate of wages or voluntarily made refunds.

SEC. 4. This Act shall not be construed to supersede or impair any authority otherwise granted by Federal law to provide for the establishment of specific wage rates.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect thirty days after its passage, but shall not affect any contract then existing or any contract that may thereafter be entered into pursuant to invitations for bids that are outstanding at the time of the passage of this Act.

SEC. 6. In the event of a national emergency the President is authorized to suspend the provisions of this Act.

Approved March 3, 1931.

EXCERPT FROM ACT OF MARCH 23, 1941

[Ch. 26; 55 Stat. 49, 53; 40 U.S.C. 276a-7]

An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.

That the fact that any contract authorized by this or any other Act is entered into without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or upon a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis or otherwise without advertising for proposals, shall not be construed to render inapplicable the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended by the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1011; U.S.C., title 40, sec. 276 (a)), if such Act would otherwise be applicable to such contract.

Approved March 23, 1941, 12 noon.

EXCERPT FROM ACT OF AUGUST 21, 1941

[Ch. 395; 55 Stat. 658, 664; 40 U.S.C. 276a-7]

An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.

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That the fact that any contract authorized by this or any other Act is entered into without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or upon a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis or otherwise without advertising for proposals, shall not be constructed to render inapplicable the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended by the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1011; U.S.C., Supp. V, title 40, sec. 276 (a)), if such Act would otherwise be applicable to such contract

Approved August 21, 1941.

EXCERPT FROM ACT OF JUNE 13, 1934

[Ch. 482; 48 Stat. 948; 40 U.S.C. 276c]

An Act to effectuate the purpose of certain statutes concerning rates of pay for labor, by making it unlawful to prevent anyone from receiving the compensation contracted for thereunder, and for other purposes.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Labor shall make reasonable regulations for contractors and subcontractors engaged in the construction, prosecution, completion or repair of public buildings, public works or buildings or works financed in whole or in part by loans or grants from the United States, including a provision that each contractor and subcontractor shall furnish weekly a statement with respect to the wages paid each employee during the preceding week. Section 1001 of title 18 of the United States Code (Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure) shall apply to such statements.

Approved June 13, 1934.

EXCERPT FROM HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT OF 1983

[Public Law 98-181; 97 Stat. 1153, 1175; 40 U.S.C. 484b note]

REPEALERS

SEC. 126. (a)(1) Section 414 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969 hereby is repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture may dispose of Federal surplus real property pursuant to the terms of section 414 of such Act if, prior to the date of the enactment of this Act, either Secretary had requested the Administrator of General Services to transfer such property for such disposition.

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), section 414(b) of such Act shall continue to apply, where applicable, to all property transferred by either Secretary pursuant to section 414 of such Act, including properties transferred pursuant to paragraph (2).

Approved November 30, 1983.

1 See 40 U.S.C. 484b.

EXCERPT FROM HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1974

[Public Law 93-383; 88 Stat. 633; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note]

LIMITATION ON WITHHOLDING OR CONDITIONING OF ASSISTANCE

SEC. 817. Assistance provided for in this Act, the National Housing Act, the United States Housing Act of 1937, the Housing Act of 1949, the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, the Housing and Urban Development Acts of 1965, 1968, 1969, and 1970, and section 17 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall not be withheld or made subject to conditions or preference by reason of the tax-exempt status of bonds or other obligations issued or to be issued to provide financing for use in connection with such assistance, except where otherwise expressly provided or authorized by law.

Approved August 22, 1974.

PART X-APPROPRIATIONS

EXCERPTS FROM DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATION ACT, 1985

[Public Law 98-371; 98 Stat. 1213]

An Act making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOUSING PROGRAMS

ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING

The amount of contracts for annual contributions, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by section 5 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and heretofore approved in appropriations Acts, is increased by $847,524,808: Provided, That $11,215,073 of such contract authority shall be available only for contracts using contract authority released by Acts of Congress prior to 1976: Provided further, That the budget authority obligated under contracts for annual contributions shall be increased above amounts heretofore provided in appropriation Acts by $10,759,482,775: Provided further, That of the budget authority provided herein, $312,760,000 shall be for assistance in financing the development or acquisition cost of public housing for Indian families; $1,725,000,000 shall be for modernization of existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 14371), of which (a) $75,000,000 shall be for the modernization of vacant uninhabitable dwelling units in vacant buildings located in public housing projects, pursuant to section 14 of such Act, other than section 14(f) of such Act and other than projects for which budget authority for this purpose was reserved or obligated during fiscal years 1983 or 1984, and (b) $100,000,000 shall be made available for modernization under such section 14, other than section 14(f) of such Act, through June 30, 1985, and any balances of such authority remaining unreserved after such date shall only be available for the section 8 existing housing program utilizing a term of one hundred and eighty months (42 U.S.C. 1437f); $774,287,500

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