Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act of 2024

What it does

This bill provides for the designation, withdrawal, conveyance, exchange, sale, or disposal of certain lands in Nevada.

Specifically, the bill permits the conveyance of federal lands to specified counties and cities, and to the Incline Village General Improvement District, for public purposes and economic development.

Further, the bill

• designates specified parcels of federal land as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System;

• establishes a federal complex for specified Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bureau of Indian Affairs offices or headquarters in Nevada; and

• requires the issuance of corrective patents for private lands adjacent to public land in White Pine County when a cloud on the title demonstrates that the private land had been patented before 1976 and the correction is for five acres or less.

The bill includes provisions regarding tribal cultural resources.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service, May 10, 2023 (Introduced in House). CRS summarizes bills impartially; it does not take positions.