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Senate Joint Resolution No. 22--Committee on Natural 
    Resources

                   May 23, 1995
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    Referred to Committee on Natural Resources


SUMMARY--Urges Congress to investigate additional 
          costs incurred for visitor facilities 
          program at Hoover Dam and to provide for 
          development of alternative sources of 
          funding for program. (BDR R-1880)

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.
              Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.



EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION--Urging Congress to investigate the additional 
        costs incurred for the visitor facilities program at Hoover 
        Dam which are in excess of the amount originally appropriated 
        for the program and to direct the Bureau of Reclamation of the 
        United States Department of the Interior to develop 
        alternative sources of funding to pay for the program.


  WHEREAS, In 1984, Congress enacted Public Law 
98-381 which appropriated $77,000,000, calculated at 1983 
price levels, for a program to increase the generation 
capacity of the power plant at Hoover Dam and for a visitor 
facilities program to improve the parking, visitor 
facilities and roadways at Hoover Dam; and
  WHEREAS, Although Public Law 98-381 does not 
specify the amount of the appropriation to be spent on the 
respective programs, the Senate Report of the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources (S. Rep. No. 98-137, 98th 
Congress, 1st Session (1983), at page 14) indicates that 
$32,000,000 would be needed for the visitor facilities 
program; and
  WHEREAS, Appropriations made for the visitor 
facilities program are to be repaid with interest when the 
program is substantially completed from revenue received 
from the sale of power at the Hoover Dam power plant; and
  WHEREAS, As of the end of the 1994 federal 
fiscal year, approximately $120,000,000 has been expended on 
the visitor facilities program; and
  WHEREAS, As of May 1995, the visitor 
facilities program is not complete and additional money will 
be necessary to complete the program; now, therefore, be it
  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
NEVADA, JOINTLY, That the Nevada Legislature urges 
Congress to investigate the costs incurred for the visitor 
facilities program at Hoover Dam which are in addition to 
the amount originally appropriated by Congress for the 
program; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Nevada Legislature urges 
Congress to direct the Bureau of Reclamation of the United 
States Department of the Interior to develop alternative 
sources of funding to pay the costs incurred for the visitor 
facilities program at Hoover Dam which are in addition to 
the amount originally estimated for the program of 
$32,000,000; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate of 
the State of Nevada prepare and transmit a copy of this 
resolution to the Vice President of the United States as 
presiding officer of the United States Senate, the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives and each member of the 
Nevada Congressional Delegation; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes 
effective upon passage and approval.

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