Requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

SMART and SMACNA support efforts to make the WD-10 form more user-friendly in furtherance of the DOL’s goal of increasing the amount of usable data submitted in wage surveys. These comments focus primarily on the two most significant changes to the proposed WD-10: elimination of peak week as an indispensable means to increasing the total amount of data on which prevailing rates are based; and inclusion of a ‘‘picklist’’ of “labor classifications” from which a submitter may choose, along with a creation of a Directory of Classifications and Sub-classifications.”