Northern Nevada Economic Development, Conservation, and Military Modernization Act of 2021
Latest action · Sep 30, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 14, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Northern Nevada Economic Development, Conservation, and Military Modernization Act of 2021
This bill provides for the designation, withdrawal, conveyance, exchange, sale, or disposal of certain federal and nonfederal lands in Nevada, including land associated with the Fallon Range Training Complex, a naval training installation.
The bill designates the Fox Peak, Grimes Point, and Pistone-Black Mountain National Conservation Areas.
The bill also designates specified parcels of federal land as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
The bill establishes a federal complex for specified Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bureau of Indian Affairs offices or headquarters in Nevada.
The bill requires the issuance of corrective patents for private lands adjacent to public land in White Pine County when (1) a cloud on the title demonstrates that the private land had been patented before 1976, and (2) the correction is for five acres or less.
The bill includes additional provisions, including ones resolving certain tribal claims.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Sep 14, 2021 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Sep 30, 2021 | |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Sep 30, 2021 | |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Sep 30, 2021 | |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Sep 14, 2021 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Sep 14, 2021 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 30, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
- Sep 30, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- Sep 30, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- Sep 14, 2021Introduced in House
- Sep 14, 2021Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H4524H.R. 5243–5267 | — | Sep 14, 2021 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 158, September 14, 2021, page H4524.
CRS reports 4
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 4
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R47563 | Tribal Co-Management of Federal Lands: Overview and Selected Issues for Congress | Report | Oct 13, 2026 |
| R48093 | Federal-Tribal Consultation: Background and Issues for Congress | Report | Sep 23, 2026 |
| R48317 | Indigenous Knowledge and Data: Overview and Issues for Congress | Report | Dec 20, 2024 |
| R41610 | Wilderness: Issues and Legislation | Report | Oct 12, 2022 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To modernize the Fallon Range Training Complex in Churchill County, Nevada, through the withdrawal and reservation of additional public lands for military use, to provide for transfer of ownership of certain Federal lands in northern Nevada, to authorize the disposal of certain Federal lands in northern Nevada for economic development, to promote conservation in northern Nevada, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Northern Nevada Economic Development, Conservation, and Military Modernization Act of 2021
- Short Title(s) as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Fernley Economic Development Act
- Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act
- Ruby Mountains Protection Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 14, 2021Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
