# Apex Area Technical Corrections Act - Plain Language Summary

## What This Bill Does

This bill updates a 1989 law that authorized the federal government to transfer land in the Apex area near Las Vegas, Nevada. The changes add two new parties to the original agreement: the City of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association. These organizations can now participate in receiving land transfers and making decisions about how federal land in the Apex area is used, either individually or working together with Clark County (which was the original recipient).

## Who Benefits and Is Affected

The primary beneficiaries are the City of North Las Vegas and businesses/property owners in the Apex Industrial Park, who gain new rights to acquire and develop federal land in the area. The changes also clarify rules for selling mineral materials (like gravel or sand) extracted during construction and land development activities, making the process simpler by exempting these sales from competitive bidding requirements.

## Key Changes

The bill makes several technical updates to the original 1989 law:
- **Adds new parties**: Includes the City of North Las Vegas and Apex Industrial Park Owners Association as eligible recipients of land transfers
- **Streamlines mineral sales**: Exempts mineral materials from surface activities from competitive bidding requirements
- **Extends protections**: Ensures land withdrawals continue indefinitely for transferred properties
- **Requires environmental compliance**: Confirms that all future land transfers must follow federal environmental laws, including environmental impact assessments

Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

Horsford, Steven

Apex Area Technical Corrections ActThis bill&nbsp;provides for the transfer of certain rights-of-way related to the Apex Project from the Department of the Interior to&nbsp;the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association.Specifically, the bill modifies the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989, which provided Clark County, Nevada, with the option to acquire certain federal land referred to as the Apex Site for use as sites for industries that generate hazardous materials (including the Kerr-McGee site).&nbsp;Under the bill, the Department of the Interior must grant utility and transportation rights-of-way to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association for the connection of existing electric power, water, natural gas, telephone, railroad, and highway facilities to the Kerr-McGee site and the other lands conveyed in accordance with the bill.Interior must also grant to the city and association such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development as a heavy use industrial zone of some or all of the lands authorized for sale by Interior within the Apex Site that lie outside the boundaries of the Kerr-McGee site.Transfers by the United States of any additional lands or interests in lands within the Apex Site or rights-of-way issued pursuant to this bill must be conditioned upon compliance with applicable federal land laws.The withdrawal of the lands within the Apex Site must continue in perpetuity for all of the transferred lands.