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[S. 1275 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.1275

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
             the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand


                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hoover Dam Miscellaneous Sales 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
        (1) the sale and distribution of general public information 
    about the use of public land and water areas for recreation, fish, 
    wildlife, and other purposes serve significant public benefits;
        (2) publications and other materials educate the public and 
    provide general information about Bureau of Reclamation programs 
    and projects;
        (3) in 1997, more than 1,000,000 visitors, including 300,000 
    from foreign countries, toured the Hoover Dam;
        (4) hundreds of thousands of additional visitors stopped to 
    view the dam;
        (5) visitors often ask to purchase maps, publications, and 
    other items to enhance their experience or serve educational 
    purposes;
        (6) in many cases the Bureau of Reclamation is the sole source 
    of those items;
        (7) the Bureau is in a unique position to fulfill public 
    requests for those items; and
        (8) as a public agency, the Bureau should be responsive to the 
    public by having appropriate items available for sale.

SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this Act are--
        (1) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to offer for 
    sale to members of the public that visit the Hoover Dam Visitor 
    Center educational materials and memorabilia; and
        (2) to use revenue from those sales to repay the costs relating 
    to construction of the Hoover Dam Visitor Center.

SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SALES.

    With respect to the Hoover Dam, the Secretary of the Interior, 
acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, may--
        (1) conduct sales of--
            (A) materials generated by the Bureau of Reclamation such 
        as posters, maps, brochures, photographs, and similar 
        publications, videotapes, and computer information discs that 
        are related to programs or projects of the Bureau; and
            (B) memorabilia and other commemorative items that depict 
        programs or projects of the Bureau;
        (2) convert unneeded property or scrap material into Bureau 
    memorabilia for sale purposes; and
        (3) enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations, other 
    Federal agencies, State and local governments, and commercial 
    entities for--
            (A) the production or sale of items described in paragraphs 
        (1) and (2); and
            (B) the sale of publications described in paragraph (1).

SEC. 5. COSTS AND REVENUES.

    (a) Costs.--All costs incurred by the Bureau of Reclamation under 
this Act shall be paid from the Colorado River Dam fund established by 
section 2 of the Act of December 21, 1928 (43 U.S.C. 617a).
    (b) Revenues.--
        (1) Use for repayment of sales costs.--All revenues collected 
    by the Bureau of Reclamation under this Act shall be credited to 
    the Colorado River Dam fund to remain available, without further 
    Act of appropriation, to pay costs associated with the production 
    and sale of items in accordance with section 4.
        (2) Use for repayment of construction costs.--All revenues 
    collected by the Bureau of Reclamation under this Act that are not 
    needed to pay costs described in paragraph (1) shall be transferred 
    annually to the general fund of the Treasury in repayment of costs 
    relating to construction of the Hoover Dam Visitor Center.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.