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Introduced February 6, 2025 by Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen · Last progress February 6, 2025
The bill substantially expands conservation and tribal landholdings and transfers federal parcels for local uses—benefiting recreation, culture, and local infrastructure—while trading off extraction and development opportunities, creating upfront costs and some local uncertainties for governments, ranchers, and tribes.
Rural communities, visitors, and outdoor businesses gain long‑term protection for roughly 1,029,580 acres (wilderness, national conservation areas, and withdrawn lands), preserving landscapes, habitat, and recreation access.
Tribal communities (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Reno‑Sparks Indian Colony, Washoe Tribe) receive substantial additions to their reservations and preserved treaty/collection rights, strengthening tribal land bases and cultural protections.
Local governments, school districts, and communities (Reno, Sparks, Washoe County) receive conveyed federal parcels—supporting parks, schools, flood mitigation, open space and ~33 acres for affordable housing—plus a local special account funded by some land sales to support conservation and capital projects.
Rural communities and workers face reduced opportunities for mining, timber, geothermal, and other resource extraction across large areas, likely lowering local jobs, royalties, and county revenues.
State and local governments, utilities, and water districts may be constrained in building new water infrastructure or large projects because wilderness and withdrawals bar or complicate federal funding and permitting for such facilities.
Local recipients (cities, counties, school districts) must bear upfront costs—surveys, appraisals, environmental cleanup and administrative expenses—for conveyed parcels and face reversion conditions that create uncertainty for long‑term local planning and investment.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Places large areas of federal land in a Nevada county under new conservation and wilderness protections, converts tens of thousands of acres into tribal trust, and conveys specific federal parcels to local governments and public agencies for parks, schools, flood control, and affordable housing. It requires surveys and management plans, withdraws many parcels from mining and leasing laws, ends or reduces grazing on designated allotments when grazing permits are donated, and creates a special Treasury account to hold most proceeds from authorized land sales for local conservation and land-management purposes.