29, Code of Federal Regulations and Reorganization Plan No. 14 of 1950 (5 U.S.C. app.). (8) Some irresponsible contractors and subcontractors often avoid their prevailing wage obligations by, among other things, engaging in craft misclassification. (9) Craft misclassification refers to the practice in which contractors misclassify high-skilled workers as general laborers or other classifications in order to avoid paying the higher prevailing wage rate applicable to the high-skilled work actually performed. (10) As part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 ), Congress directed the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the contracting practices of the Army Corps of Engineers. (11) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published their report on this study on March 10, 2021, with recommendations to the Army Corps of Engineers to ensures contractor employees are paid prevailing wages as required by the Davis-Bacon Act. (12) In their report, GAO found that from Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, there were five times as many subcontractors, compared to prime contractors, found to be in violation of the Davis-Bacon Act. None were recommended to the Department of Labor for debarment from receiving future contracts. (13) GAO found that the Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters guidance to their 38 districts lacks sufficient information to ensure consistent monitoring of contractors’ compliance with the Davis-Bacon Act from one Army Corps district to the next. 3. Ensuring that contractor employees on army corps projects are paid prevailing wages as required by law The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works shall provide to each Army Corps district clarifying, uniform guidance with respect to prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors of the Army Corps that— (1) conforms with the Department of Labor’s regulations, policies, and guidance with respect to the proper implementation and enforcement of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of