Sponsor
Mark E. Amodei
Representative · R-NV
Representative · R-NV
The bill transfers significant federal lands and control to local, state, and tribal entities—delivering local planning, conservation, and new revenue streams—while shifting cleanup, transaction costs, and long-term stewardship obligations to local taxpayers and reducing federal environmental review and oversight.
Local governments, tribes, and nearby residents gain direct control of many federal parcels, enabling flood control, parks, trails, economic development, and other local infrastructure projects.
Proceeds from land sales and designated deposits into special local accounts provide new, sustained local funding for education, habitat, wildfire prevention, land acquisition from willing sellers, and other public projects.
Large areas are protected or restored—including new wilderness designations and riparian restoration—safeguarding habitat, recreation, and scenic values for hunters, anglers, hikers, and nearby communities.
Local governments, counties, and local taxpayers are repeatedly required to pay surveys, appraisals, administrative/conveyance costs, and fair market value for many transfers, imposing potentially large upfront fiscal burdens.
The federal government is not required to remediate hazardous contamination on many transferred parcels, leaving cleanup liability and costs to future owners, local governments, or taxpayers.
Large-scale conveyances, discretionary sales, and waivers of FLPMA/NEPA planning reduce the amount of federally managed public land and curtail environmental review and public input, risking diminished conservation and oversight.
Based on analysis of 24 sections of legislative text.
Conveys and disposes multiple federal land parcels in Nevada to state and local entities for conservation, parks, flood control, cemetery, and public uses, with recipients paying costs and often fair market value.
Official title: To provide for transfer of ownership of certain Federal lands in northern Nevada, to authorize the disposal of certain Federal lands in northern Nevada for economic development, to promote conservation in northern Nevada, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 25, 2025 by Mark E. Amodei · Last progress March 25, 2025
Transfers and sells multiple specified parcels of federal land in Nevada to the State, counties, cities, local districts, and a tribal interest for conservation, parks, flood control, public uses, and local development. Recipients generally pay appraised fair market value or assume conveyance costs; many conveyances are subject to use restrictions (conservation, parks, flood attenuation, cemetery, public purposes) and discretionary reversion if uses change. The bill also establishes definitions and procedures for disposal of checkerboard BLM lands in Pershing County, preserves existing water rights, authorizes a federal agency complex funded from proceeds, and sets conditions for a transmission project right-of-way on tribal trust land.