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PUBLIC LAW 560-AUG. 2, 1954

42 USC 1457.

42 USC 1459. Protection of labor standards.

40 USC 276a-S.

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62 Stat. 740; 48 Stat. 948.

42 USC 1460. Definitions.

"Urban renewal areas." "Urban renewal plan."

Ante, p. 623.

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planned or undertaken by local public agencies pursuant to this title shall be compensated by such agencies by the payment of fixed fees which in the aggregate will cover the costs of rendering such services, and such expenses shall be considered nonadministrative; and for the purpose of providing such inspections and audits and of providing representatives at the sites, the Administrator may utilize any agency and such agency may accept reimbursement or payment for such services from such local public agencies or the Administrator, and credit such amounts to the appropriations or funds against which such charges have been made". SEC. 309. Section 107 of said Act, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out the words "redevelopment plan" and inserting "urban renewal plan". SEC. 310. Section 109 of said Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC, 109. I n order to protect labor standards— " (a) any contract for loan or capital grant pursuant to this title shall contain a provision requiring that not less than the salaries prevailing in the locality, as determined or adopted (subsequent to a determination under applicable State or local law) by the Administrator, shall be paid to all architects, technical engineers, draftsmen, and technicians employed in the development of the project involved and shall also contain a provision that not less than the wages prevailing in the locality, as predetermined by the Secretary of Labor pursuant to the DavisBacon Act (49 Stat. 1011), shall be paid to all laborers and mechanics, except such laborers or mechanics who are employees of municipalities or other local public bodies, employed in the development of the project involved for work financed in whole or in part with funds made available pursuant to this title; and the Administrator shall require certification as to compliance with

the provisions of this paragraph prior to making any payment under such contract; and "(b) the provisions of title 18, United States Code, section 874, and of title 40, United States Code, section 276c, shall apply to work financed in whole or in part with funds made available for the development of a project pursuant to this title ". SEC. 311. Section 110 of said Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 110. The following terms shall have the meanings, respectively, ascribed to them below, and, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall include the plural as well as the singular number: " (a) 'Urban renewal area' means a slum area or a blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating area in the locality involved which the Administrator approves as appropriate for an urban renewal project. " (b) 'Urban renewal plan' means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for an urban renewal project, which plan (1) shall conform to the general plan of the locality as a whole and to the workable program referred to in section 101 hereof; (2) shall be sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the urban renewal area, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum densities, building requirements, and the plan's relationship to definite local objectives respecting appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements; and (3) shall include, for any part of the urban renewal area proposed to be acquired and redeveloped in accordance with clause (1) of the second sentence of subsection (c) of this