Section 1048-X. Authority, water board and city to take affirmative action

1.  Each  contracting  agency  which  awards   contracts   for   design,
  construction,  services  or  materials  for water projects authorized by
  this title shall require that such contracts  and  documents  soliciting
  bids  or  proposals  therefor  shall  contain  or  make reference to the
  following provisions:
    (a)  The  contractor  will  not  discriminate  against  employees   or
  applicants  for  employment  because  of  race,  creed,  color, national
  origin, sex, age, disability, or marital status, and will  undertake  or
  continue  programs  of  affirmative action to insure that minority group
  persons and women are  afforded  equal  employment  opportunity  without
  discrimination.  Such  action  shall be taken with reference, but not be
  limited  to  recruitment,   employment,   job   assignment,   promotion,
  upgrading,  demotion,  transfer,  layoff,  termination,  rates of pay or
  other forms of compensation, and selections for training or  retraining,
  including apprenticeship and on-the-job training.
    (b)  At  the  request  of the contracting agency, the contractor shall
  request   each   employment   agency,   labor   union,   or   authorized
  representative  of  workers with which he has a collective bargaining or
  other agreement or understanding, to furnish a  written  statement  that
  such   employment  agency,  labor  union  or  representative  shall  not
  discriminate because of race, creed, color, national origin,  sex,  age,
  disability  or marital status and that such union or representative will
  cooperate  in  the  implementation  of  the   contractor's   obligations
  hereunder.
    (c)  The contractor will state, in all solicitations or advertisements
  for employees placed by or on behalf of the contractor,  in  performance
  of  the  contract  that  all qualified applicants will be afforded equal
  employment opportunity without discrimination because  of  race,  creed,
  color, national origin, sex, age, disability or marital status.
    (d)  The  contractor  will  include  the  provisions of paragraphs (a)
  through (c) of this subdivision in every subcontract or  purchase  order
  in  such  a  manner  that  such  provisions  will  be  binding upon each
  subcontractor or vendor as to its working connection with a contract.
    2. Each contracting agency shall establish procedures  and  guidelines
  to  ensure  that  contractors  and  subcontractors undertake programs of
  affirmative action as required by  this  section.  Such  procedures  may
  require,  after  notice  in  a  bid  solicitation,  the submission of an
  affirmative action program prior to the award of any contract, or at any
  time thereafter, and may require the submission  of  compliance  reports
  relating  to  the operation and implementation of any affirmative action
  program adopted hereunder.  Such  procedures  and  guidelines  shall  be
  consistent  with  the  guidelines  promulgated  by the office of federal
  contract compliance programs of the United States  department  of  labor
  pursuant  to  presidential  executive  order eleven thousand two hundred
  forty-six,  as  amended,  and  any   state   statutory   or   regulatory
  requirements.  A  contracting  agency  shall,  in  the  promulgation  of
  procedures and guidelines pursuant to this section, cooperate  with  any
  federal,   state   or  local  agency  established  for  the  purpose  of
  implementing affirmative action compliance programs.
    3. Any contracting agency empowered to  award  contracts  for  design,
  construction,  services or materials shall seek meaningful participation
  in the performance of contracts by  minority  business  enterprises  and
  shall  establish measures and procedures to identify those contracts and
  items of work for which minority business enterprises may  best  bid  to
  actively  and affirmatively promote and assist their participation so as
  to  facilitate  the  award  of  a  fair  share  of  contracts  to   such
  enterprises.   For purposes hereof, "minority business enterprise" shall

  mean any business enterprise which is  at  least  fifty-one  per  centum
  owned  by,  or  in  the  case  of  a  publicly  owned business, at least
  fifty-one per centum of the stock of  which  is  owned  by  citizens  or
  permanent  resident  aliens  who  are  Black,  Hispanic, Asian, American
  Indian or women, and such ownership interest is  real,  substantial  and
  continuing. The provisions of this subdivision shall not be construed to
  limit  the  ability  of  any  minority business enterprise to bid on any
  contract.
    4. In the  implementation  of  subdivisions  two  and  three  of  this
  section,  the  contracting  agency  shall  consider  compliance  by  any
  contractor with the requirements of any  federal,  state  or  local  law
  concerning   minority   business   enterprises   or   equal   employment
  opportunity, which may effectuate the requirements of this  section.  If
  the  contracting  agency  determines that by virtue of the imposition of
  the requirements of any such law, in respect to  contracts  affected  by
  this  section,  that  the  provisions thereof duplicate or conflict with
  such law, the contracting agency shall waive the applicability  of  this
  section to the extent of such duplication or conflict.
    5.  In  order  to  implement  the  requirements and objectives of this
  section, contracting agencies shall be responsible  for  monitoring  the
  contractors'   compliance  with  the  provisions  hereof,  for  advising
  contractors on the availability of competing qualified minority business
  enterprises to perform contracts proposed to be awarded and  for  making
  recommendations  to  contractors  to  improve  the  access  of  minority
  business enterprises to such contracts.