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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) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Referred to
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Policy area
Water Resources Development

Summary
  • Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to expend money from the Colorado River Dam fund for Hoover Dam operations, maintenance, investigation, cleanup, and capital improvements.
  • Permits spending of recovered funds on a non-reimbursable basis for authorized Hoover Dam activities.
  • Requires consultation with Boulder Canyon Project contractors regarding use of 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)
5 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. May 1, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · senate
  2. May 1, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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.

  • HR 3158 — 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 72%
  • S 1242 — Watershed Results Act · Introduced Mar 17, 2026 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 4409 — Small Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments of 1998 · Introduced Aug 17, 1998 · Cong. 105 65%
  • HR 5414 — DAMS Act · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • S 392 — Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act · Introduced Feb 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%

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

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

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 1, 2025

Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Padilla, and Mr. Schiff) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 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. 617a; 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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