S. 217 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the Senate, Jan 23, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summaryExpands Nevada land transfer rights for utilities
This bill makes it easier for the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association to build water, electric, natural gas, and other utility lines across federal land. Instead of Clark County being the only one who could use certain pathways for these utilities, the bill lets these other organizations use them too. It also allows the federal government to sell certain minerals left over from construction activities on the site without the usual bidding process.
How it affects you
This mainly affects people and businesses in the Apex area of North Las Vegas who depend on utility infrastructure or work in industrial development there. By streamlining the permitting process for utilities and infrastructure, the changes could help speed up industrial development in that zone, though the summary doesn't describe broader effects on everyday people outside the region.
Read the official summary (Introduced in Senate, Jan 23, 2025)
Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act Amendments Act
This bill expands the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989 to extend the rights-of-ways granted to Clark County, Nevada, to other entities and make related requirements.
Specifically, the Department of the Interior must grant certain utility and transportation rights-of-way granted to Clark County to the city of North Las Vegas or 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. By extending these rights-of-ways, the bill expedites the permitting process for such utilities and infrastructure.
Interior may also grant to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, in addition to Clark County, such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development as a heavy use industrial zone of certain lands.
Interior may sell at fair market value, without advertising or calling for bids and without regard to volume or time limitations, mineral materials resulting from grading, land balancing, or other activities on the surface of land within the Apex Site where the federal government retains an interest in the minerals.
Land transfers and rights-of-way issued within the site must comply with applicable federal land laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
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 SessionS. 217
A BILL
Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act Amendments Act
Sponsor: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · Introduced Jan 23, 2025 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Jan 23, 2025: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.”