Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act

This bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to sell or exchange certain federal land in Pershing County, Nevada, located in a checkerboard pattern of alternating public and private parcels, with the county jointly selecting the parcels. Owners of mining claims on certain federal land could buy that land at fair market value. Sale proceeds would be split among the state's education program (5 percent), the county (10 percent), and a federal account used to buy land from willing sellers and cover sale costs. The bill designates about 136,000 acres of federal land as wilderness, releases about 48,600 acres from wilderness study status, and places about 10 acres in trust for the Lovelock Paiute Tribe, with gaming barred on that land.

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Sponsors

• Jacky Rosen Democrat sponsor
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