Transfer of land to be held in trust for the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe

(a) Definition In this section, the term Tribe means the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. (b) Transfer of land Subject to valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the land described in subsection (c) shall be— (1) held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe; and (2) part of the reservation of the Tribe. (c) Description of land The land referred to in subsection (b) is the approximately 3,156 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management, as generally depicted on the map entitled Southern Nevada Land Management and dated November 14, 2024. (d) Survey Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall complete a survey to establish the boundaries of the land taken into trust under subsection (b). (e) Renewable energy transmission corridor As a condition of the transfer of land under subsection (b), not later than 30 days after the date on which the land is taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe under subsection (b), a 300-foot-wide right-of-way (as generally depicted on the map described in subsection (c)) shall be granted by the Tribe to a qualified electric utility for the construction and maintenance of high-voltage transmission facilities consistent with existing renewable energy transmission agreements between the Tribe and the qualified electric utility on the Snow Mountain Reservation. (f) Gaming Land taken into trust under this section shall not be eligible, or considered to have been taken into trust, for class II gaming or class III gaming (as those terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2703)). (g) Water rights (1) In general Nothing in this section affirms or denies Federal reserved rights to surface water or groundwater for any land taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe under subsection (b). (2) State water rights The Tribe shall retain any right or claim to water under State law for any land taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe under subsection (b). (h) Intergovernmental agreement Nothing in this section affects the implementation of the March 2021 Intergovernmental Agreement between the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and the City of Las Vegas. (i) Conforming amendment Section 3092 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. Buck McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3870) is amended by striking subsection (d).