[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 2135 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2135


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 5, 1996

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To provide for the relief of certain persons in Clark County, Nevada, 
  who purchased lands in good faith reliance on existing private land 
                                surveys.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds and declares that:
            (1) Certain landowners in the (North) Decatur Boulevard 
        area of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, 
        who own property adjacent to lands managed by the Bureau of 
        Land Management have been adversely affected by certain 
        erroneous private surveys.
            (2) These landowners have occupied or improved their 
        property in good faith and in reliance on erroneous surveys of 
        their properties that they believed were accurate.
            (3) These landowners presumed their occupancy was codified 
        through an Eighth Judicial District Court (Nevada) Judgment and 
        Decree filed October 26, 1989, as a ``friendly lawsuit'' 
        affecting numerous landowners in the (North) Decatur Boulevard 
        area.
            (4) The 1990 Bureau of Land Management dependent resurvey 
        and section subdivision of sections 6, 7, 18, and 19, T. 19 S., 
        R. 61 E., Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada, correctly established 
        accurate boundaries between such public lands and private 
        lands.
            (5) The Bureau of Land Management has the authority to sell 
        public lands which are affected as a result of erroneous 
        private survey and encroachments existing as of the date of 
        this Act as it affects T. 19 S., R. 61 E., sections 18 and 19, 
        and T. 19 S. R. 60 E., section 13 and 24, if encroachments 
        based on the same erroneous private survey are identified, in 
        accordance with this Act.

SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE OF LANDS.

    (a) Claims.--Within one year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the city of Las Vegas on behalf of the owners of real 
property, located adjacent to the lands described in subsection (b), 
may submit to the Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act 
referred to as the ``Secretary'') in writing a claim to the lands 
described in subsection (b). The claim submitted to the Secretary shall 
be accompanied by--
            (1) a description of the lands claimed;
            (2) information relating to the claim of ownership of such 
        lands; and
            (3) such other information as the Secretary may require.
    (b) Lands Described.--The lands described in this subsection are 
those Federal lands located in the Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas 
District, Clark County, Nevada, in sections 18 and 19, T. 19 S., R. 61 
E., Mount Diablo Meridian, as described by the dependent resurvey by 
the Bureau of Land Management accepted May 4, 1990, under Group No. 
683, Nevada, and subsequent supplemental plats of sections 18 and 19, 
T. 19 S., R. 61 E., Mount Diablo Meridian, as contained on plats 
accepted November 17, 1992. Such lands are described as (1) government 
lots 22, 23, 26, and 27 in said section 18; and (2) government lots 20, 
21, and 24 in said section 19, containing 29.36 acres, more or less.
    (c) Conveyance.--The Secretary shall convey all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to the public lands described in 
subsection (b) to the city of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, upon 
payment by the city of fair market value based on a Bureau of Land 
Management approved appraised market value of the lands as of December 
1, 1982, and on the condition that the city convey the effected lands 
to the land owners referred to in subsection (a).

            Passed the House of Representatives September 4, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.