Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024
Subpart 1.
Areas.
Prevailing wage rates for highway and heavy construction
projects must be based on work performed within distinct areas. The counties
included in each area are listed in items A to J.
A. Area 1: Carlton, Cook, Itasca,
Koochiching, Lake, Pine, and Saint Louis.
B. Area 2: Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard,
Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and
Roseau.
C. Area 3: Aitkin, Cass,
Crow Wing, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena.
D. Area 4: Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas,
Grant, Mahnomen, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, and
Wilkin.
E. Area 5: Benton, Isanti,
Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright.
F.
Area 6: Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele,
Rice, Wabasha, and Winona.
G. Area
7: Blue Earth, Faribault, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley, and Waseca.
H. Area 8: Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui
Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Meeker, McLeod, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, and
Yellow Medicine.
I. Area 9: Anoka,
Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington.
J. Area 10: Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson,
Martin, Nobles, Rock, and Watonwan.
Subp. 2.
Labor classes.
Prevailing wage rates must be determined on an area basis and
each prevailing wage rate must be based upon work performed solely within the
applicable class of labor. For each area surveyed, the department shall issue
wage determinations for all classes of labor commonly or customarily used in
highway and heavy construction projects.
Subp. 2a.
Projects to be surveyed,
criteria.
The determinations shall be made from projects on which
construction work was done in the 12 months preceding the survey which are
located in the area and where the estimated total cost of completing the
project is $25,000 or more.
A. A
minimum of two projects in an area must be reported in order to issue a wage
determination for the area.
B. A
wage determination must be made for all classifications of labor utilized on a
project. Where classes of labor expected to be utilized on a project for which
the area prevailing wage determination is being made are not all represented in
the projects in item A, the most recent rate determined for the class of labor
is applicable.
C. If work is
performed by a class of labor not defined by part
5200.1100, Master Job
Classifications, the contracting agency shall assign a wage rate and the
commissioner of labor and industry shall review and certify the assigned wage
rate based on the most similar trade or occupation from the area wage
determination. Within 90 days, the Commissioner of Labor and Industry must
initiate the rulemaking procedure so that the classification will be defined in
the Master Job Classifications in part
5200.1100.
Subp. 3. [Repealed, 21 SR 1107]
