WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a bill that extends hydropower allocations from Hoover Dam for another 50 years and makes a portion of its electricity available to ...

L AS VEGAS, Nev. (KOLO) - Nevada Representative and Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto have introduced a bill to allow the federal government to access around $50 million in funding for Hoover Dam.

Though the bill died in the last Congress, Nevada’s federal delegation is re-upping the Help Hoover Dam Act — an effort to allocate about $50 million to the maintenance of the dam.

Obama signs Hoover Dam power allocation bill The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge section of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project is seen just south of the Hoover Dam on Aug. 19, 2010.

Contracts for the sale of electricity produced at the dam expire in 2017. Heck’s bill, HR 470, would renew the general Hoover power contract for another 50 years, starting in 2017, but add in a ...