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                United States General Accounting Office
                         Washington, D.C. 20548


                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     Expected at 10:00 a.m. EST
                                     April 2, 1971


                             STATEMENT OF
            GREGORY J. AHART, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIVIL DIVISION
                              BEFORE THE
                     SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR
                HOUSE CONIqITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR
                                  ON
                     WAGE RATES DETERMINED BY THE
               DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ON MAIL HAULING SERVICES
                 UNDER THE SERVICE CONTRACT ACT OF 1965
                                  AND
                  A LEGAL DECISION OF SEPTEMBER 19, 1969,
                RENDERED BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL TO THE
              SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (49 COMPo GENO 186)



     Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to appear here today, at your request, to discuss

questions we have raised concerning the Department of Labor's determina-

tions of wage rates for mail hauling services under the Service Contract

Act of 1965, and a legal decision rendered by the Comptroller General,

which held against the use of wage escalation provisions in wage determina-

tions for service employees at the Vandenburg Air Force Base, Santa

Barbara County, California.

     As you know, the Service Contract Act requires that every contract

entered into by the United States or the District of Columbia in excess

of $2,500--the principal purpose of which is to furnish services to the

United States through the use of service employees--shall specify the




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