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applicable wage determination less than 10 days prior to the closing date,the sub recipients may request a finding from the State recipient that there is not a reasonable time to notify interested contractors of the modification of the wage determination.The State recipient will provide a report of its findings to the sub recipient. (ii) If the sub recipient does not award the contract within 90 days of the closure of the solicitation, any modifications or supersedes DOL makes to the wage determination contained in the solicitation shall be effective unless the State recipient, at the request of the sub recipient, obtains an extension of the 90 day period from DOL pursuant to 29 CFR 1.6(c)(3)(iv).The sub recipient shall monitor www.wdol.gov on a weekly basis if it does not award the contract within 90 days of closure of the solicitation to ensure that wage determinations contained in the solicitation remain current. (b)If the sub recipient carries out activity subject to DB by issuing a task order,work assignment or similar instrument to an existing contractor(ordering instrument)rather than by publishing a solicitation,the sub recipient shall insert the appropriate DOL wage determination from www.wdol.gov into the ordering instrument. (c)Sub recipients shall review all subcontracts subject to DB entered into by prime contractors to verify that the prime contractor has required its subcontractors to include the applicable wage determinations. (d) As provided in 29 CFR 1.6(f), DOL may issue a revised wage determination applicable to a sub recipient's contract after the award of a contract or the issuance of an ordering instrument if DOL determines that the sub recipient has failed to incorporate a wage determination or has used a wage determination that clearly does not apply to the contract or ordering instrument. If this occurs,the sub recipient shall either terminate the contract or ordering instrument and issue a revised solicitation or ordering instrument or incorporate DOL's wage determination retroactive to the beginning of the contract or ordering instrument by change order.The sub recipient's contractor must be compensated for any increases in wages resulting from the use of DOL's revised wage determination. 3.Contract and Subcontract provisions. (a)The Recipient shall insure that the sub recipient(s)shall insert in full in any contract in excess of$2,000 which is entered into for the actual construction,alteration and/or repair,including painting and decorating, of a treatment work under the CWSRF or a construction project under the DWSRF financed in whole or in part from Federal funds or in accordance with guarantees of a Federal agency or financed from funds obtained by pledge of any contract of a Federal agency to make a loan,grant or annual contribution(except where a different meaning is expressly indicated),and which is subject to the labor standards provisions of any of the acts listed in§5.1 or the Consolidated Appropriations Act,2016,the following clauses: (1)Minimum wages. (i)All laborers and mechanics employed or working upon the site of the work will be paid unconditionally and not less often than once a week,and without subsequent deduction or rebate on any account(except such payroll deductions as are permitted by regulations issued by the Secretary of Labor under the Copeland Act(29 CFR part 3)),the full amount of wages and bona fide fringe benefits(or cash equivalents thereof)due at time of payment computed at rates not less than those contained in the wage determination of the Secretary of Labor which is attached hereto and made a part hereof,regardless of any contractual relationship which may be alleged to exist between the contractor and such laborers and mechanics. Contributions made or costs reasonably anticipated for bona fide fringe benefits under section 1(b)(2)of the Davis-Bacon Act on behalf of laborers or mechanics are considered wages paid to such laborers or mechanics,subject to the provisions of paragraph(a)(1)(iv)of this section;also,regular contributions made or costs incurred for more than a weekly period(but not less often than quarterly)under plans,funds,or programs which cover the particular weekly period, are deemed to be constructively made or incurred D-13