    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 36 (Monday, September 12, 2005)]
    [Pages 1364-1365]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on the National Emergency Caused by Hurricane
    Katrina

    September 8, 2005

    To the Congress of the United States:

        I hereby report that I have exercised my statutory authority under
    section 6 of the Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C. 276a-5, to suspend the
    provisions of sections 276a to 276a-5 of the Davis-Bacon Act in the
    event of a national emergency. I have found that the conditions caused
    by Hurricane Katrina constitute a ``national emergency'' within the
    meaning of section 6. I have, therefore, suspended the provisions of the
    Davis-Bacon Act in designated areas in the States of Alabama, Florida,
    Louisiana, and Mississippi.
        This action is more fully set out in the enclosed proclamation that
    I have issued today.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     September 8, 2005.

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