S3493-119

What This Bill Does

The Carson City Public Land Correction Act directs a set of mapped Nevada land transactions outside ordinary federal disposal planning rules. At the City's request, the responsible Agriculture or Interior Secretary must convey about 1,270 federal acres without consideration for recreation, flood mitigation, and other public purposes; Carson City pays transaction costs, and parcels may revert if their public use ends. Federal and city cleanup duties are limited while CERCLA disclosure remains. A second no-cost conveyance transfers about 0.5 acre for a road, with a City-paid crosswalk to the Carson Ranger District office due within two years. Interior must sell about 356 federal acres to qualified bidders while preserving City utility and drainage rights. If Carson City offers about 45 acres to Interior, the Secretary must accept within one year and sell the mapped 21-acre category, preserving municipal well and road rights and assigning hazardous-substance costs under existing law. Sale proceeds follow the 2009 Act allocation; money in the Carson City Special Account remains available without further appropriation or fiscal-year limit for federal and city sale costs and acquisition of environmentally sensitive local land. The bill also broadens earlier City land uses to airport operations, recreation, and other public purposes; permits agreements with third parties for named recreational properties without an appraisal; directs for-profit net proceeds to the account or property improvements; and creates a one-year sale deadline when qualified bidders exist.

Who Benefits and How

Carson City gains approximately 1,270 acres for public purposes, a road parcel, retained easements, authority to work with third-party recreation operators, reimbursement of eligible sale costs, and access to account-supported sensitive-land acquisitions. Road and crosswalk users, airport operations, parks, the gun club, golf-course users, and flood-mitigation projects may benefit. Qualified land buyers gain access to approximately 356 federal acres and a separate City-origin parcel. BLM and Forest Service programs may recover transaction and environmental-review costs, while conservation interests gain a dedicated account purpose for acquiring environmentally sensitive land.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Carson City must request conveyances, pay surveys, appraisals, environmental response and administrative costs, maintain authorized public uses, build the South Curry Street crosswalk, preserve easements, and transfer offered land. For-profit recreation partners must deposit net profits in the account or reinvest them. Interior, Agriculture, BLM, and Forest Service staff must survey, disclose hazards, finalize maps, convey and sell parcels, protect rights, administer possible reversions, account for proceeds, and negotiate account procedures. Purchasers pay disposal costs, and incompatible users face public-purpose conditions or loss of access to sold federal land.

Key Provisions

• Requires a no-cost conveyance of approximately 1,270 acres to Carson City for public purposes.
• Requires a separate approximately 0.5-acre road conveyance and a City-funded crosswalk within two years.
• Requires competitive sale of approximately 356 federal acres while protecting municipal easements.
• Requires Interior to accept an offered approximately 45-acre City transfer and sell the mapped 21-acre portion.
• Provides sale-cost reimbursements and environmentally sensitive land acquisition through the Carson City Special Account.
• Authorizes third-party recreation agreements without appraisals and directs for-profit net proceeds to public uses.
• Protects valid rights and limits federal and City environmental-remediation duties for conveyed parcels.