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d. Apprentices and Trainees (programs of the U .S . DOT). Apprentices and trainees working under apprenticeship and V. CONTRACT WORK HOURS AND SAFETY skill training programs which have been certified by the STANDARDS ACT Secretary of Transportation as promoting EEO in connection with Federal-aid highway construction programs are not The following clauses apply to any Federalaid construction subject to the requirements of paragraph 4 of this Section IV, contract in an amount in excess of $100,000 and subject to the The straight time hourly wage rates for apprentices and overtime provisions of the Contract Work Hours and Safety trainees under such programs will be established by the Standards Act. These clauses shall be inserted in addition to particular programs. The ratio of apprentices and trainees to the clauses required by 29 CFR 5.5(a) or 29 CFR 4.6. As journeymen shall not be greater than permitted by the terms of used in this paragraph , the terms laborers and mechanics the particular program. include watchmen and guards. 5. Compliance with Copeland Act requirements. The 1 . Overtime requirements. No contractor or subcontractor contractor shall comply with the requirements of 29 CFR part contracting for any part of the contract work which may require 3, which are incorporated by reference in this contract. or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall require or permit any such laborer or mechanic in any 6. Subcontracts. The contractor or subcontractor shall insert workweek in which he or she is employed on such work to Form FHWA-1273. in any subcontracts and also require the work in excess of forty hours in such workweek unless such subcontractors to include Form FHWA 1273 in any lower tier laborer or mechanic receives compensation at a rate not less subcontracts. The prime contractor shall be responsible for the than one and one-half times the basic rate of pay for all hours compliance by any subcontractor or lower tier subcontractor worked in excess of forty hours in such workweek. with all the contract clauses in 29 CFR 5.5. 2. Violation; liability for unpaid wages; liquidated 7. Contract termination: debarment. A breach of the damages. In the event of any violation of the clause set forth contract clauses in 29 CFR 5.5 may be grounds for termination in paragraph (1 .) of this section, the contractor and any subcontractor responsible therefor shall or liable for the of the contract, and for debarment as a contractor and a unpaid wages. In addition, such contractor and subcontractor subcontractor as provided in 29 CFR 5. 12. shall be liable to the United States (in the case of work done under contract for the District of Columbia or a territory, to such 8. Compliance with Davis•Bacon and Related Act District or to such territory), for liquidated damages . Such requirements. All rulings and interpretations of the Davis- liquidated damages shall be computed with respect to each Bacon and Related Acts contained in 29 CFR parts 1 , 3, and 5 individual laborer or mechanic, including watchmen and are herein incorporated by reference in this contract. guards, employed in violation of the clause set forth in paragraph (1 .) of this section, in the sum of $10 for each 9. Disputes concerning labor standards. Disputes arising calendar day on which such individual was required or out of the labor standards provisions of this contract shall not permitted to' work in excess of the standard workweek of forty be subject to the general disputes clause of this contract. Such hours without payment paragraph (1 .) of this section . the overtime wages required by the disputes shall be resolved in accordance with the procedures clause set forth in paragr of the Department of Labor set forth in 29 CFR parts 5, 6, and 7. Disputes within the meaning of this clause include disputes 3. Withholding for unpaid wages and liquidated damages. between the contractor (or any of its subcontractors) and the The FHWA or the contacting agency shall upon its own action contracting agency, the U .S. Department of Labor, or the or upon written request of an authorized representative of the employees or their representatives. Department of Labor withhold or cause to be withheld, from any moneys payable on account of work performed by the 10. Certification of eligibility. contractor or subcontractor under any such contract or any other Federal contract with the same prime contractor, or any other federally-assisted contract subject to the Contract Work a. By entering into this contract, the contractor certifies that Hours and Safety Standards Act, which is held by the same neither. it (nor he or she) nor any person or firm who has an prime contractor, such sums as may be determined to be interest in the contractor's firm is a person or firm ineligible to necessary to satisfy any liabilities of such contractor or be awarded Government contracts by virtue of section 3(a) of subcontractor for unpaid wages and liquidated damages as the Davis-Bacon Actor 29 CFR 5. 12(a)(1 ). provided in the clause set forth in paragraph (2. ) of this section. b. No part of this contract shall be subcontracted to any person or firm ineligible for award of a Government contract by virtue 4. Subcontracts. The contractor or subcontractor shall insert of section 3(a) of the Davis-Bacon Act or 29 CFR 5. 12(a)(1 ). in any subcontracts the clauses set forth in paragraph (1 .) through (4.) of this section and also a clause requiring the subcontractors to include these clauses in any lower tier c. The penalty for making false statements is prescribed in the U.S. Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C. 1001 . subcontracts. The prime contractor shall be responsible for compliance by any subcontractor or lower tier subcontractor with the clauses set forth in paragraphs (1 J through (4. ) of this section. 7