[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 232 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 232

    To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national 
  monuments in the State of Nevada except by express authorization of 
                   Congress, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 22, 2015

  Mr. Heller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national 
  monuments in the State of Nevada except by express authorization of 
                   Congress, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nevada Land Sovereignty Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON FURTHER EXTENSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL 
              MONUMENTS IN THE STATE OF NEVADA.

    The proviso of the last sentence of the first section of the Act of 
September 14, 1950 (64 Stat. 849, chapter 950; 16 U.S.C. 431a), is 
amended by inserting ``or Nevada'' after ``Wyoming''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON ENFORCEMENT OF SECRETARIAL ORDER NO. 3310 IN 
              NEVADA WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.

    Except by express authorization of Congress, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall not implement, administer, or enforce Secretarial Order 
No. 3310, issued by the Secretary of the Interior on December 22, 2010.
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