S. 1275

One Hundred Sixth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,

the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand

An Act

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to produce and sell products and to

sell publications relating to the Hoover Dam, and to deposit revenues generated

from the sales into the Colorado River Dam fund.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of

the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hoover Dam Miscellaneous

Sales Act’’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds that—

(1) the sale and distribution of general public information

about the use of public land and water areas for recreation,

fish, wildlife, and other purposes serve significant public benefits;

(2) publications and other materials educate the public

and provide general information about Bureau of Reclamation

programs and projects;

(3) in 1997, more than 1,000,000 visitors, including 300,000

from foreign countries, toured the Hoover Dam;

(4) hundreds of thousands of additional visitors stopped

to view the dam;

(5) visitors often ask to purchase maps, publications, and

other items to enhance their experience or serve educational

purposes;

(6) in many cases the Bureau of Reclamation is the sole

source of those items;

(7) the Bureau is in a unique position to fulfill public

requests for those items; and

(8) as a public agency, the Bureau should be responsive

to the public by having appropriate items available for sale.

SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

The purposes of this Act are—

(1) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to offer for

sale to members of the public that visit the Hoover Dam Visitor

Center educational materials and memorabilia; and

(2) to use revenue from those sales to repay the costs

relating to construction of the Hoover Dam Visitor Center.

SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SALES.

With respect to the Hoover Dam, the Secretary of the Interior,

acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, may—

(1) conduct sales of—
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(A) materials generated by the Bureau of Reclamation

such as posters, maps, brochures, photographs, and similar

publications, videotapes, and computer information discs

that are related to programs or projects of the Bureau;

and

(B) memorabilia and other commemorative items that

depict programs or projects of the Bureau;

(2) convert unneeded property or scrap material into

Bureau memorabilia for sale purposes; and

(3) enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations,

other Federal agencies, State and local governments, and

commercial entities for—

(A) the production or sale of items described in paragraphs (1) and (2); and

(B) the sale of publications described in paragraph

(1).

SEC. 5. COSTS AND REVENUES.

(a) COSTS.—All costs incurred by the Bureau of Reclamation

under this Act shall be paid from the Colorado River Dam fund

established by section 2 of the Act of December 21, 1928 (43 U.S.C.

617a).

(b) REVENUES.—

(1) USE FOR REPAYMENT OF SALES COSTS.—All revenues

collected by the Bureau of Reclamation under this Act shall

be credited to the Colorado River Dam fund to remain available,

without further Act of appropriation, to pay costs associated

with the production and sale of items in accordance with section

4.

(2) USE FOR REPAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS.—All revenues collected by the Bureau of Reclamation under this Act

that are not needed to pay costs described in paragraph (1)

shall be transferred annually to the general fund of the

Treasury in repayment of costs relating to construction of the

Hoover Dam Visitor Center.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.