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WHAT'S NEW?
SO MUCH GOING ON…
Revisions to California’s DIR Website
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has revised its website.
Contractors and agencies need to know that their registration and projects were not
carried over into the new system.
Agencies need to get a new user name and then input the PW Project number for each project so contractors can submit eCPR for those projects. The DIR has training videos to help Agencies understand the new changes.
Contractors- your registration is not showing up in this new system. Go onto the website
and select a new user name. You should be able to repopulate most of the information if
you have your ten-digit registration number from before. Also changes to uploading
eCPRs. The DIR has training videos you can access on their support page.
Do not forget that your registration renewal is due July 1 of this year.
Inflation Reduction Act- Final Regulations
Final regulations relating to prevailing wage requirements were published June 25, 2024. Here are a few highlights:
- Federal Davis Bacon rates apply to the construction, alteration or repair of a qualifying facility. This includes;
- ·Construction of the facility
- Any part of the 10 year period after the facility is placed into service.
- Prevailing wages are set based on the first day construction, alteration or repair of the facility applies.
- If construction starts June 1, 2024, then the wage determination which applies on that date will be enforceable for both the construction and the following 10 year period after the facility is placed into service
- If there is no initial construction, but just maintenance and repair, then the first date that work starts will the determine the wage determination.
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Wage determinations can be found at www.sam.gov
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Not only does the Davis Bacon Act apply, but also the Copeland Anti Kickback Act and rules governing apprenticeship from the U.S. Department of Labor.
- The Apprenticeship Requirement is 10%, 12.5% and 15% depending on when construction started on the project.
- A project either needs to meet this requirement of apprenticeship employment; or
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Request an apprentice from a DOL approved apprenticeship committee, obtain proof of delivery of the request; provide 5 days for the committee to refer an apprentice, and agree to any special requirements of the apprenticeship committee. If no apprentice is dispatched, then the contractor receives a waiver for that apprenticeship trade for 1 year.
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Note: If you have apprentices you are currently using from a DOL approved program, you can reassign those apprentices to any of your IRA projects across the country and that apprentice still counts as a bona fide apprentice for that project even if they do not come from a local apprenticeship program.
- There is no apprenticeship requirements for maintenance or repair to a facility, once construction is complete and the facility is placed in service.
These regulations go into effect August 26, 2024.
If you want to read the final regulations (90 pages) where you can see more information about compliance and tax credits, you can find it here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/06/25/2024-13331/increased-amounts-of-credit-or-deduction-for-satisfying-certain-prevailing-wage-and-registered
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