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        S.1789

                       One Hundred Third Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
  the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three


                                 An Act

  
 
  To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the use of funds 
under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program for 
seismic retrofit of bridges, 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. 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.''.







                                Speaker of the House of Representatives.







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

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