[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1789 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1789

To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the use of funds under 
 the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program for seismic 
              retrofit of bridges, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 1994

 Mrs. Boxer (for herself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Hatfield) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                    on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the use of funds under 
 the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program for seismic 
              retrofit of bridges, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SEISMIC RETROFIT OF BRIDGES.

    Section 144 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the third sentence of subsection (d), by inserting 
        before the period at the end the following: ``, except that a 
        State may carry out a project for seismic retrofit of a bridge 
        under this section without regard to whether the bridge is 
        eligible for replacement or rehabilitation under this 
        section''; and
            (2) in subsection (e), by adding at the end the following 
        new sentence: ``The use of funds authorized under this section 
        to carry out a project for the seismic retrofit of a bridge 
        shall not affect the apportionment of funds under this 
        section.''.

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