HR 618
· 119th Congress
· Public Lands and Natural Resources
Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
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Became Public Law No: 119-24.
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Jul 15, 2025
signed
Signed by President.
Jul 15, 2025
signed
Became Public Law No: 119-24.
Jul 03, 2025
sent
Presented to President.
Jun 23, 2025
floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Jun 18, 2025
passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Jun 18, 2025
passed
Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3459)
May 14, 2025
introduced
Received in the Senate, read twice.
May 13, 2025
floor
Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
May 13, 2025
floor
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1980-1982)
May 13, 2025
floor
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 618.
May 13, 2025
passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1980-1981)
May 13, 2025
passed
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1980-1981)
May 13, 2025
passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Apr 30, 2025
committee
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-86.
Natural Resources Committee
Apr 30, 2025
other
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 61.
Feb 12, 2025
committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Natural Resources Committee
Feb 12, 2025
committee
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Natural Resources Committee
Jan 22, 2025
introduced
Introduced in House
Jan 22, 2025
introduced
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Natural Resources Committee
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Introduced in House
Jan 22, 2025
Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
This bill provides for the transfer of certain rights-of-way related to the Apex Project from the Department of the Interior to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association.
Specifically, the bill modifies 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).
Under the bill, the Department of the Interior must 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 the bill.
Interior must also grant to the city and 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.
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--- Received (Senate)
+++ Enrolled
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
-[H.R. 618 Received in Senate (RDS)]
+[H.R. 618 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
-<DOC>
-119th CONGRESS
-1st Session
-H. R. 618
+H.R.618
-_______________________________________________________________________
+One Hundred Nineteenth Congress
-IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
+of the
-May 14, 2025
+United States of America
-Received
+AT THE FIRST SESSION
-_______________________________________________________________________
+Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
+the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five
-AN ACT
+An Act
-To amend the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act
-of 1989 to include the City of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial
-Park Owners Association, and for other purposes.
+To amend the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of
+1989 to include the City of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park
+Owners Association, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
-
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
-
This Act may be cited as the ``Apex Area Technical Corrections
Act''.
-
SEC. 2. APEX PROJECT, NEVADA LAND TRANSFER AND AUTHORIZATION ACT OF
1989.
-
The Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of
1989 (Public Law 101-67; 103 Stat. 168) is amended--
(1) in section 2(b)--
-(A) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph
-(8); and
+(A) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (8); and
(B) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
-``(6) The term `Apex Industrial Park Owners Association'
-has the meaning given such term by the charter document for the
-entity entitled `Apex Industrial Park Owners Association',
-formed on April 9, 2001, and any successor documents to such
-charter document, on file with the Nevada Secretary of State.
-``(7) The term `City of North Las Vegas' means North Las
-Vegas, Nevada.'';
+``(6) The term `Apex Industrial Park Owners Association' has
+the meaning given such term by the charter document for the entity
+entitled `Apex Industrial Park Owners Association', formed on April
+9, 2001, and any successor documents to such charter document, on
+file with the Nevada Secretary of State.
+``(7) The term `City of North Las Vegas' means North Las Vegas,
+Nevada.'';
(2) in section 3(b)--
-(A) by striking ``Clark County for the connection''
-and inserting ``Clark County, the City of North Las
-Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association,
-individually or jointly as appropriate, for the
-connection'';
-(B) by striking ``Kerr-McGee Site'' and inserting
-``Kerr-McGee Site and other lands conveyed in
-accordance with this Act''; and
-(C) by inserting ``(or any successor maps created
-by the Secretary)'' after ``May 1989'';
+(A) by striking ``Clark County for the connection'' and
+inserting ``Clark County, the City of North Las Vegas, and the
+Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, individually or
+jointly as appropriate, for the connection'';
+(B) by striking ``Kerr-McGee Site'' and inserting ``Kerr-
+McGee Site and other lands conveyed in accordance with this
+Act''; and
+(C) by inserting ``(or any successor maps created by the
+Secretary)'' after ``May 1989'';
(3) in section 4(c), by striking ``Pursuant'' and all that
-follows through ``Clark County'' and inserting ``During such
-time as the requirements of section 6 are met, and pursuant to
-applicable law, the Secretary shall grant Clark County, the
-City of North Las Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Owners
-Association'';
+follows through ``Clark County'' and inserting ``During such time
+as the requirements of section 6 are met, and pursuant to
+applicable law, the Secretary shall grant Clark County, the City of
+North Las Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Owners Association'';
(4) in section 4(e)(1), by striking the last sentence and
-inserting ``The withdrawal made by this subsection shall
-continue in perpetuity for all lands transferred in accordance
-with this subsection.'';
+inserting ``The withdrawal made by this subsection shall continue
+in perpetuity for all lands transferred in accordance with this
+subsection.'';
(5) in section 4(e), by adding at the end the following:
``(3) In the case of the sale of mineral materials resulting from
grading, land balancing, or other activities on the surface of a parcel
within the Apex Site for which the United States retains and interest
in the minerals--
``(A) it shall be considered impracticable to obtain
-competition for purposes of section 3602.31(a)(2) of title 43,
-Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the
-enactment of the Apex Area Technical Corrections Act); and
+competition for purposes of section 3602.31(a)(2) of title 43, Code
+of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the enactment
+of the Apex Area Technical Corrections Act); and
``(B) such sale shall be exempt from the quantity and term
-limitations imposed on noncompetitive sales under subpart 3602
-of such title (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the
-Apex Area Technical Corrections Act.''; and
+limitations imposed on noncompetitive sales under subpart 3602 of
+such title (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the Apex
+Area Technical Corrections Act.''; and
(6) in section 6, by adding at the end the following:
``(d) Compliance With Environmental Assessments.--Each transfer by
the United States of additional lands or interests in lands within the
@@ -88,10 +79,7 @@
including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.''.
-Passed the House of Representatives May 13, 2025.
+Speaker of the House of Representatives.
-Attest:
-
-KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
-
-Clerk.
+Vice President of the United States and
+President of the Senate.
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