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[Document affected by Public Law 106-461]
[CITE: 43USC619]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                   CHAPTER 12A--BOULDER CANYON PROJECT
 
           SUBCHAPTER III--HOOVER DAM CONTRACTS AND FACILITIES
 
Sec. 619. Increase in capacity of existing generating equipment 
        at Hoover Powerplant; construction of Colorado River bridge 
        crossing
        

(a) Hoover Powerplant generating equipment; increase in capacity; 
        improvement of appurtenances; authorization of Secretary

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to increase the capacity 
of existing generating equipment and appurtenances at Hoover Powerplant 
(hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as ``uprating program''); 
and to improve parking, visitor facilities, and roadways and to provide 
additional elevators, and other facilities that will contribute to the 
safety and sufficiency of visitor access to Hoover Dam and Powerplant 
(hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as ``visitor facilities 
program'').

(b) Construction of Colorado River bridge crossing; authorization of 
        Secretary

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct a Colorado 
River bridge crossing, including suitable approach spans, immediately 
downstream from Hoover Dam for the purpose of alleviating traffic 
congestion and reducing safety hazards. This bridge shall not be a part 
of the Boulder Canyon project and shall neither be funded nor repaid 
from the Colorado River Dam Fund or the Lower Colorado River Basin 
Development Fund.

(Pub. L. 98-381, title I, Sec. 101, Aug. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 1333.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, was in the original ``this Act'', meaning Pub. L. 
98-381, Aug. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 1333, which enacted this subchapter and 
sections 7274 and 7275 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and 
amended sections 617a, 617b, 618, 618a, 618e, 618k, and 1543 of this 
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note below and Tables.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 98-381 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this 
subchapter, provisions set out as notes under sections 617 and 618 of 
this title and section 839b of Title 16, Conservation, sections 7274 and 
7275 and provisions set out as a note under section 7133 of Title 42, 
The Public Health and Welfare, and amending sections 617a, 617b, 618, 
618a, 618e, 618k, and 1543 of this title] may be cited as the `Hoover 
Power Plant Act of 1984'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 618e, 619a, 619b of this 
title.
