§ 47112. Carrying out airport development projects
(a)
Construction Work.—
The Secretary of Transportation may inspect and approve construction work for an airport development project carried out under a grant agreement under this subchapter. The construction work must be carried out in compliance with regulations the Secretary prescribes. The regulations shall require the sponsor to make necessary cost and progress reports on the project. The regulations may amend or modify a contract related to the project only if the contract was made with actual notice of the regulations.
(b)
Prevailing Wages.—
A contract for more than $2,000 involving labor for an airport development project carried out under a grant agreement under this subchapter must require contractors to pay labor minimum wage rates as determined by the Secretary of Labor under sections
3141–3144,
3146, and
3147 of title
40. The minimum rates must be included in the bids for the work and in the invitation for those bids.
(c)
Veterans’ Preference.—
(1)
In this subsection—
(B)
“Vietnam-era veteran” means an individual who served on active duty (as defined in section
101 of title
38) in the armed forces for more than 180 consecutive days, any part of which occurred after August 4, 1964, and before May 8, 1975, and who was separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions.
(2)
A contract involving labor for carrying out an airport development project under a grant agreement under this subchapter must require that preference in the employment of labor (except in executive, administrative, and supervisory positions) be given to Vietnam-era veterans and disabled veterans when they are available and qualified for the employment.