H.R. 618 · Where this bill is now
Became law
Public Law 119-24, Jul 15, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summarySpeeds up permits for Nevada industrial park
The federal government currently has a slow process for approving infrastructure projects on public lands. This bill speeds things up for the Apex Project, an industrial park near Las Vegas. It tells the Department of the Interior to automatically grant rights-of-way—basically, permission to run electric lines, water pipes, roads, and railroads—across federal land to connect the park's facilities. It also lets local officials and the park's owners develop the area as a heavy industrial zone without having to go through the usual land approval steps.
How it affects you
This change mainly affects people and businesses involved with the Apex Industrial Park in Nevada, including Clark County, the city of North Las Vegas, and the park's owners. They'll be able to expand the park's infrastructure and operations faster than they could before. Most people elsewhere won't notice a direct effect from this bill.
Read the official summary (Public Law, Jul 15, 2025)
Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
This act directs the Department of the Interior to grant certain rights-of-way related to the Apex Project (an industrial park) to Clark County in Nevada, the city of North Las Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association. Thus, the act expedites the federal permitting process for expanding the industrial park's infrastructure.
Specifically, the act directs Interior to 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 lands within the Apex Project site. (Interior is already directed to grant such rights-of-way to Clark County.)
Interior must also grant to the county, the city, and association such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development of the industrial park as a heavy use industrial zone. (Currently, Interior may grant the rights-of-way to the county.)
The act also requires that the withdrawal of the transferred lands within the Apex Site from all forms of entry and appropriation under the public land laws (e.g., leasing the land for minerals) continue in perpetuity.
In the case of the sale of mineral materials resulting from grading or other activities on the surface of a land parcel within the Apex Project site, the sales are exempt from quantity and term limitations placed on noncompetitive sales.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionH. R. 618
AN ACT
Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
Sponsor: Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV-4) · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · 5 versions of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Jul 15, 2025: “Became Public Law No: 119-24.”