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Help Hoover Dam Act

To amend the Boulder Canyon Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expend amounts in the Colorado River Dam fund, and for other purposes.

Introduced May 1, 2025

Latest action (May 1, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Referred to
Natural Resources Committee
Policy area
Water Resources Development
Issues
Climate & Energy

Summary
  • Amends the Boulder Canyon Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expend moneys recovered on a non-reimbursable basis from the Colorado River Dam fund.
  • Allows the Secretary to use these funds for operations, maintenance, investigation and cleanup actions, and capital improvements at Hoover Dam and land used for its construction and operation.
  • Requires the Secretary to consult with Boulder Canyon Project contractors as identified in the Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2011 when spending these funds.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
9 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Susie Lee’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $121,838
  • EO SOLUTIONS $33,000
  • CONSULTANT $16,700
  • WYNN RESORTS $12,900
  • BERKSHIRE PARTNERS LLC $11,514

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Susie Lee → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. May 1, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
  2. May 1, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1570 — Help Hoover Dam Act · Introduced May 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 92%
  • S 154 — Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act · Passed Senate Jun 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 4409 — Small Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments of 1998 · Introduced Aug 17, 1998 · Cong. 105 70%
  • HR 5414 — DAMS Act · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 5297 — To amend the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide cost share assistance for the construction of reservoir structures for the storage of water in rural areas, and for other purposes. · Introduced Oct 6, 2000 · Cong. 106 67%
  • S 1242 — Watershed Results Act · Introduced Mar 17, 2026 · Cong. 119 66%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · May 1, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 1, 2025

Ms. Lee of Nevada (for herself, Mr. Amodei of Nevada, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Ciscomani, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Titus, Ms. Ansari, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Cisneros, and Mr. Schweikert) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

A BILL

To amend the Boulder Canyon Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expend amounts in the Colorado River Dam fund, 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. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Help Hoover Dam Act”.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION TO EXPEND AMOUNTS.

Section 2 of the Act of December 21, 1928 (43 U.S.C. 617, et seq.; commonly known as the “Boulder Canyon Project Act”), is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(f) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend moneys in the fund, including moneys in account XXXR5656P1, that were and hereafter are recovered on a non-reimbursable basis, for any authorized activity, including operations, maintenance, investigation and cleanup actions, and capital improvements, within the Boulder Canyon Project at Hoover Dam or on land used for the construction and operation of the Hoover Dam, in consultation with the Boulder Canyon Project contractors as identified in the Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-72).”. <all>

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