[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 762 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 762


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 16, 2009

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

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, 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. FINAL PATENT AND LAND RECONFIGURATION IN CLARK COUNTY AND 
              LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA.

    Patent No. 27-2005-0081 and its associated land reconfiguration 
issued by the Bureau of Land Management on February 18, 2005, is hereby 
affirmed and validated as having been issued pursuant to and in 
compliance with the provisions of the Nevada-Florida Land Exchange 
Authorization Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-275), the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the Federal Land Policy 
Management Act of 1976 for the benefit of the desert tortoise and other 
species and their habitat to increase the likelihood of their recovery. 
The process utilized by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and 
the Bureau of Land Management in reconfiguring the lands as shown on 
Exhibit 1-4 of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Planned 
Development Project MSHCP, Lincoln County, NV (FWS-R8-ES-2008-N0136) 
and the reconfiguration provided for in Special


              

 Condition 10 of Army Corps of Engineers Permit No. 200125042 are 
hereby ratified.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 15, 2009.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.

                              By Robert F. Reeves,

                                                          Deputy Clerk.