49 U.S.C. § 47112 — Carrying out airport development projects

(a) Construction Work — The Secretary of Transportation may inspect and approve construction work carried out under a grant agreement. The work must follow regulations the Secretary sets, and those regulations must require the sponsor to file cost and progress reports on the project. The regulations can change or modify a contract related to the project only if the contract was made with actual notice of those regulations. (b) Prevailing Wages — A labor contract worth more than $2,000 for a development project must require contractors to pay workers at least the minimum wage rates the Secretary of Labor sets under specific sections of title 40. Those minimum rates must appear in both the bid invitations and the bids submitted for the work. (c) Veterans' Preference — (1) This subsection defines several terms: a "disabled veteran" has the meaning used elsewhere in federal law. A "Vietnam-era veteran" is someone who served more than 180 straight days of active duty, any part of it between August 4, 1964, and May 8, 1975, and was honorably discharged. An "Afghanistan-Iraq war veteran" is someone who served more than 180 straight days of active duty supporting listed post-9/11 military operations, or their successors, any part of it between September 11, 2001, and the operations' declared end date, and was honorably discharged. A "Persian Gulf veteran" is someone who served more than 180 straight days of active duty in the Gulf War theater, any part of it between August 2, 1990, and a legally set end date, and was honorably discharged. (2) A labor contract for a development project under a grant agreement must require that hiring preference — outside of executive, administrative, and supervisory jobs — go to Vietnam-era veterans, Persian Gulf veterans, Afghanistan-Iraq war veterans, disabled veterans, and small businesses owned and controlled by disabled veterans, whenever they are available and qualified for the work.