States Warn EPA Davis-Bacon Policy Violates Water Infrastructure Rules

摘要

State sources are warning that a recently issued EPA policy memo applying the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law to drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects is unnecessarily broad and violates federal regulations limiting such requirements only to federal funds, raising the possibility that states may sue EPA over the policy.rnThe sources say the policy will needlessly delay some projects and could signal a power-grab by the federal government to impose restrictions on the drinking water and wastewater state revolving fund (SRF) program because the memo applies Davis-Bacon to not only federal dollars but also to state matching dollars, interest, bond proceeds and repaid loan funds; it is imposing a rule on states that dictates what they may do with their own funds.