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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 1275

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 27, 2000

Referred to the Committee on Resources

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.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hoover Dam Miscella5 neous Sales Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

2 Congress finds that—

3 (1) the sale and distribution of general public

4 information about the use of public land and water

5 areas for recreation, fish, wildlife, and other pur6 poses serve significant public benefits;

7 (2) publications and other materials educate the

8 public and provide general information about Bu9 reau of Reclamation programs and projects;

10 (3) in 1997, more than 1,000,000 visitors, in11 cluding 300,000 from foreign countries, toured the

12 Hoover Dam;

13 (4) hundreds of thousands of additional visitors

14 stopped to view the dam;

15 (5) visitors often ask to purchase maps, publi16 cations, and other items to enhance their experience

17 or serve educational purposes;

18 (6) in many cases the Bureau of Reclamation

19 is the sole source of those items;

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

21 public requests for those items; and

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

23 responsive to the public by having appropriate items

24 available for sale.

25 SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

26 The purposes of this Act are—
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1 (1) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to

2 offer for sale to members of the public that visit the

3 Hoover Dam Visitor Center educational materials

4 and memorabilia; and

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

6 costs relating to construction of the Hoover Dam

7 Visitor Center.

8 SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SALES.

9 With respect to the Hoover Dam, the Secretary of

10 the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Rec11 lamation, may—

12 (1) conduct sales of—

13 (A) materials generated by the Bureau of

14 Reclamation such as posters, maps, brochures,

15 photographs, and similar publications, video16 tapes, and computer information discs that are

17 related to programs or projects of the Bureau;

18 and

19 (B) memorabilia and other commemorative

20 items that depict programs or projects of the

21 Bureau;

22 (2) convert unneeded property or scrap material

23 into Bureau memorabilia for sale purposes; and
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1 (3) enter into agreements with nonprofit orga2 nizations, other Federal agencies, State and local

3 governments, and commercial entities for—

4 (A) the production or sale of items de5 scribed in paragraphs (1) and (2); and

6 (B) the sale of publications described in

7 paragraph (1).

8 SEC. 5. COSTS AND REVENUES.

9 (a) COSTS.—All costs incurred by the Bureau of Rec10 lamation under this Act shall be paid from the Colorado

11 River Dam fund established by section 2 of the Act of

12 December 21, 1928 (43 U.S.C. 617a).

13 (b) REVENUES.—

14 (1) USE FOR REPAYMENT OF SALES COSTS.—

15 All revenues collected by the Bureau of Reclamation

16 under this Act shall be credited to the Colorado

17 River Dam fund to remain available, without further

18 Act of appropriation, to pay costs associated with

19 the production and sale of items in accordance with

20 section 4.

21 (2) USE FOR REPAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION

22 COSTS.—All revenues collected by the Bureau of

23 Reclamation under this Act that are not needed to

24 pay costs described in paragraph (1) shall be trans25 ferred annually to the general fund of the Treasury
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1 in repayment of costs relating to construction of the

2 Hoover Dam Visitor Center.

Passed the Senate November 19, 1999.

Attest: GARY SISCO,

Secretary.