This bill makes technical updates to a 1989 law that allows the federal government to transfer land in the Apex area near Las Vegas, Nevada. The main change is expanding who can receive and use this land. Previously, only Clark County could benefit from these land transfers. Now the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association (a business group formed in 2001) can also receive land or work together with Clark County to develop it.

The bill clarifies the rules for how this land can be used and transferred. It specifies that when the federal government sells minerals (like gravel or sand) from the surface of these properties, it doesn't need to hold a competitive bidding process—basically, it can sell to whoever is developing the land without requiring multiple bids. The bill also makes clear that any land transfers must still follow federal environmental laws and land management rules, so the federal government maintains oversight to protect the environment and public interests.

In practical terms, this gives North Las Vegas and the business park association more flexibility to develop industrial and commercial properties in the Apex area, while keeping federal protections in place. It's mainly a cleanup of outdated language and an expansion of who can participate in this decades-old land development program.

Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act Amendments Act

Cortez Masto, Catherine

Apex Area Technical Corrections ActThis bill makes amendments to 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).The Department of the Interior must&nbsp;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 this bill.Interior must also grant to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Owners 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.