Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
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.
The provisions, in plain language.
Adds two new paragraph entries (formerly paragraph 6 is renumbered to 8, and new paragraphs 6 and 7 are inserted) to the definitions or authorization section of the 1989 Apex Project Nevada Land Transfer Act; the specific inserted text is not present in the stored bill version.
Expands authorization to connect to the Apex Project's infrastructure — previously limited to Clark County — to also include the City of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, acting individually or jointly.
Broadens the geographic scope of the authorized connection route to include not only the Kerr-McGee Site but also other lands conveyed under the Act, and allows use of successor maps in place of the original May 1989 maps.
Conditions the Secretary's authority to grant rights-of-way or access on compliance with section 6 requirements, and extends that authority to Clark County, the City of North Las Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Owners Association (previously Clark County only).
Makes the federal land withdrawal for transferred Apex Project lands permanent in perpetuity, replacing a prior provision that apparently allowed the withdrawal to lapse.
Adds new subsections to the land transfer and compliance sections of the 1989 Act (sec. 4(e) and sec. 6); the inserted text is not present in the stored bill version.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- City of North Las Vegas and Apex Industrial Park Owners AssociationThese entities gain explicit statutory authorization to connect to the Apex Project infrastructure (water/utility access) and to receive rights-of-way from the Secretary, which previously only Clark County held. (Provisions 2, 4.)
- Federal land managers and existing permit holders in the Apex Industrial areaThe perpetual withdrawal (Provision 5) provides long-term land-status certainty for parties operating under the 1989 Act, removing uncertainty about whether the withdrawal would expire.