Senate Joint Resolution No. 26--Committee on Transpo
    rtation

                FILE NUMBER........


SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION--Urging Congress to take all necessary 
       actions to alleviate the problems caused by the heavy 
       commercial traffic over Hoover Dam and through Boulder 
       City.


  WHEREAS, Recent studies performed by the 
Nevada Department of Transportation indicate that 
approximately 8,000 vehicles pass over Hoover Dam daily and 
that approximately 70 percent of those vehicles are 
commercial and other vehicles using U.S. Highway No. 93 as a 
conduit to Las Vegas, rather than to bring tourists and 
visitors to Hoover Dam; and
  WHEREAS, The heavy traffic flow over Hoover 
Dam and through Boulder City has resulted in significant 
increases in the level of air pollution and the number of 
traffic accidents in the area; and
  WHEREAS, A study cited by the \Las Vegas 
Sun\\ on November 11, 1991, indicated that an average 
of 1,434 tons of hazardous materials, including gasoline, 
diesel fuel, hydrochloric acid, cyanide and chlorine, are 
transported daily over Hoover Dam and through Boulder City; 
and
  WHEREAS, Such a heavy flow of large trucks 
transporting highly flammable or hazardous materials, or 
both, significantly increases the chances that a major 
accident could occur near Hoover Dam or in Boulder City; 
now, therefore, be it 
  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
NEVADA, JOINTLY, That the Legislature of the State of 
Nevada hereby urges Congress to take all necessary actions 
to alleviate the problems caused by the heavy commercial 
traffic over Hoover Dam and through Boulder City, including, 
without limitation, the construction of a highway bypass 
around Hoover Dam and Boulder City which would connect U.S. 
Highway No. 93 in Nevada to Interstate Highway No. 40 in 
California as a means of:
  1.  Diverting the heavy flow of trucks transporting highly 
flammable or hazardous materials, or both, and the heavy 
flow of regular traffic from traveling over Hoover Dam and 
through Boulder City;
  2.  Preventing further air pollution in the area;
  3.  Reducing the number of traffic accidents in the area;
   4.  Reserving the portion of U.S. Highway No. 93 over 
Hoover Dam to accommodate the traffic of tourists and 
visitors to the dam; and
  5.  Preventing the pollution of the Colorado River from 
spill into the river related to the heavy flow of such 
traffic;
and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Legislature hereby directs 
the Nevada Department of Transportation to cooperate with 
the appropriate public agencies to accomplish the 
construction of the highway bypass between U.S. Highway No. 
93 in Nevada and Interstate Highway No. 40 in California, or 
the improvement of U.S. Highway No. 95 in Nevada and 
California, if those projects are approved by Congress; 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 the 
presiding officer of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, each member of the Nevada Congressional 
Delegation and the Director of the Nevada Department of 
Transportation; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes 
effective upon passage and approval.

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