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Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

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Introduced:
Jan 22, 2025
Policy Area:
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Bill Statistics

24
Actions
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Cosponsors
1
Summaries
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Subjects
6
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Latest Action

Jul 15, 2025
Became Public Law No: 119-24.

Summaries (1)

Introduced in House - Jan 22, 2025 00
<p><strong>Apex Area Technical Corrections Act</strong></p><p>This bill&nbsp;provides for the transfer of certain rights-of-way related to the Apex Project from the Department of the Interior to&nbsp;the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association.</p><p>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).&nbsp;</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The withdrawal of the lands within the Apex Site must continue in perpetuity for all of the transferred lands.</p>

Actions (20 of 24)

Became Public Law No: 119-24.
Type: BecameLaw | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 36000
Jul 15, 2025
Signed by President.
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Jul 15, 2025
Signed by President.
Type: BecameLaw | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 36000
Jul 15, 2025
Became Public Law No: 119-24.
Type: President | Source: Library of Congress | Code: E40000
Jul 15, 2025
Presented to President.
Type: Floor | Source: House floor actions | Code: E20000
Jul 3, 2025
Presented to President.
Type: President | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 28000
Jul 3, 2025
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Type: Floor | Source: Senate
Jun 23, 2025
Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3459)
Type: Floor | Source: Senate
Jun 18, 2025
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Type: Floor | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 17000
Jun 18, 2025
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Senate
May 14, 2025
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Type: Floor | Source: House floor actions | Code: H38310
May 13, 2025
5:26 PM
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1980-1981)
Type: Floor | Source: House floor actions | Code: H37300
May 13, 2025
5:26 PM
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)
Type: Floor | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 8000
May 13, 2025
5:26 PM
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 618.
Type: Floor | Source: House floor actions | Code: H8D000
May 13, 2025
5:18 PM
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1980-1982)
Type: Floor | Source: House floor actions | Code: H30000
May 13, 2025
5:18 PM
Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Type: Floor | Source: House floor actions | Code: H30300
May 13, 2025
5:18 PM
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 61.
Type: Calendars | Source: House floor actions | Code: H12410
Apr 30, 2025
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-86.
Type: Committee | Source: House floor actions | Code: H12200
Apr 30, 2025
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-86.
Type: Committee | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 5000
Apr 30, 2025
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Type: Committee | Source: House committee actions | Code: H19000
Feb 12, 2025
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Subjects (4)

Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Land transfers Nevada Public Lands and Natural Resources (Policy Area)

Cosponsors (3)

(D-NV)
Apr 1, 2025
(D-NV)
Jan 22, 2025

Text Versions (6)

Enrolled Bill

Oct 26, 2025

Public Law

Jul 15, 2025

Received in Senate

May 14, 2025

Engrossed in House

May 13, 2025

Reported in House

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced in House

Jan 22, 2025

Full Bill Text

Length: 4,001 characters Version: Enrolled Bill Version Date: Oct 26, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 15, 2025 6:08 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 618 Enrolled Bill

(ENR) ]

H.R.618

One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

of the

United States of America

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

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.
This Act may be cited as the ``Apex Area Technical Corrections
Act''.
SEC. 2.
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 (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.

(b) --
(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.'';

(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''; (3) in

(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'';

(3) in
section 4 (c) , by striking ``Pursuant'' and all that follows through ``Clark County'' and inserting ``During such time as the requirements of
(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''; (4) in
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.

(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.'';

(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

(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.

(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

(6) in
section 6, by adding at the end the following: `` (d) Compliance With Environmental Assessments.
``
(d) Compliance With Environmental Assessments.--Each transfer by
the United States of additional lands or interests in lands within the
Apex Site or rights-of-way issued pursuant to this Act shall be
conditioned upon compliance with applicable Federal land laws,
including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.''.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.