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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12A — Boulder Canyon Project

§ 617b. Authorization of appropriations

Statutory text

There is authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, not exceeding in the aggregate $242,000,000, of which $77,000,000 (October 1983 price levels) shall be adjusted plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations of construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. Said $77,000,000 represents the additional amount required for the uprating program and the visitor facilities program.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 70–42 § 3 · 45 Stat. 61

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 617b

    Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 3, 45 Stat. 1058

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 3, 45 Stat. 1058

  2. Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–381 title I § 103(a)(2) · 98 Stat. 1333

    Substituted · 43 U.S.C. § 617b

    Pub. L. 98–381 substituted “$242,000,000, of which $77,000,000 (October 1983 price levels) shall be adjusted plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations of construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. Said $77,000,000 represents the additional amount required for the uprating program and the visitor facilities program” for “$165,000,000”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 98–381 substituted “$242,000,000, of which $77,000,000 (October 1983 price levels) shall be adjusted plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations of construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. Said $77,000,000 represents the additional amount required for the uprating program and the visitor facilities program” for “$165,000,000”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) In section 3, by deleting “$165,000,000.” and inserting in lieu thereof “$242,000,000, of which $77,000,000 (October 1983 price levels) shall be adjusted plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations of construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. Said $77,000,000 represents the additional amount required for the uprating program and the visitor facilities program.”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–381 substituted “$242,000,000, of which $77,000,000 (October 1983 price levels) shall be adjusted plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations of construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. Said $77,000,000 represents the additional amount required for the uprating program and the visitor facilities program” for “$165,000,000”.

Credits

1928–1984 · 2 acts
  1. 1928Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 3, 45 Stat. 1058
  2. 1984Pub. L. 98–381, title I, § 103(a)(2), , 98 Stat. 1334.
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(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 3, 45 Stat. 1058; Pub. L. 98–381, title I, § 103(a)(2), , 98 Stat. 1334.)

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