[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 10 (Monday, February 7, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 7, 1994]
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                SEISMIC RETROFIT OF BRIDGES ACT OF 1994

  Mr. PELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed 
to the immediate consideration of Calendar 361, S. 1789, a bill to 
permit the use of funds under the highway bridge replacement and 
rehabilitation program for seismic retrofit of bridges; that the bill 
be read a third time, passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon 
the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1789) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                S. 1789

       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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