Proclamation 4040—Proclamation Revoking Proclamation No. 4031 of February 23, 1971

Whereas, the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1494, as amended) and the provisions of all other acts, Executive Orders, proclamations, rules, regulations or other directives providing for the payment of wages, which provisions are dependent upon determinations by the Secretary of Labor under the Davis-Bacon Act, were suspended until otherwise provided by Proclamation No. 4031 of February 23, 1971; and

Whereas, I have today issued Executive Order No. 11588;

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do by this Proclamation revoke Proclamation No. 4031 of February 23, 1971, as to all construction contracts for which solicitations for bids or proposals are issued after the date of this Proclamation, whether direct federal construction or federally assisted construction subject to the previous Proclamation No. 4031.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-one and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fifth.

RICHARD NIXON