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Version 00 · Introduced in House · May 10, 2023
Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act of 2023
This bill provides for the designation, withdrawal, conveyance, exchange, sale, or disposal of certain lands in Nevada.
Specifically, the bill permits the conveyance of federal lands to specified counties and cities, and to the Incline Village General Improvement District, for public purposes and economic development.
Further, the bill
designates specified parcels of federal land as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System;
establishes a federal complex for specified Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bureau of Indian Affairs offices or headquarters in Nevada; and
requires the issuance of corrective patents for private lands adjacent to public land in White Pine County when a cloud on the title demonstrates that the private land had been patented before 1976 and the correction is for five acres or less.
The bill includes provisions regarding tribal cultural resources.
People & committees
Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2] · R–NV
Legislative record
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 752.
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-920, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-920, Part I.
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
Subcommittee Hearings Held
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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