Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
Apex Area Technical Corrections Act
Plain Language Summary
# Apex Area Technical Corrections Act Summary **What the Bill Does:** This bill transfers certain utility and transportation rights-of-way (essentially, the legal right to use land for pipes, power lines, roads, and rails) from the federal government to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association. These rights-of-way allow connections of electricity, water, natural gas, phone lines, railroads, and highways to industrial sites in the Apex area, particularly the Kerr-McGee site. The bill modifies a 1989 law that originally gave Clark County, Nevada, land for industrial development, including areas for hazardous material manufacturing. **Who It Affects:** The primary beneficiaries are the city of North Las Vegas and businesses operating in the Apex Industrial Park.
The change also affects the Department of the Interior, which must process and grant these rights-of-way transfers. **Current Status:** The bill has already been signed into law, so it is now in effect. No further action is needed.
CRS Official Summary
Apex Area Technical Corrections ActThis 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.
Latest Action
Became Public Law No: 119-24.