[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 9, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S2813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1602. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill H.R. 1957, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to modernize and improve the Internal Revenue Service, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end, add the following:

     SEC. ____. TRANSFER AND WITHDRAWAL OF BUREAU OF LAND 
                   MANAGEMENT LAND FOR USE AS A NATIONAL CEMETERY.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Federal land.--The term ``Federal land'' means the 
     approximately 15 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in 
     Elko, Nevada, that is more particularly described as NE\1/4\ 
     SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, sec. 8, T. 34 
     N., R. 55 E., of the Mount Diablo Meridian, as depicted on 
     the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, entitled 
     ``Proposed National Cemetery-Elko Nevada'', and dated 
     September 9, 2015.
       (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of the Interior.
       (b) Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to valid existing rights, 
     administrative jurisdiction over the Federal land is 
     transferred from the Secretary to the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs for use as a national cemetery in accordance with 
     chapter 24 of title 38, United States Code.
       (2) Legal descriptions.--
       (A) In general.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in the 
     Federal Register a notice containing a legal description of 
     the Federal land.
       (B) Effect.--A legal description published under 
     subparagraph (A) shall have the same force and effect as if 
     included in this section, except that the Secretary may 
     correct any clerical and typographical errors in the legal 
     description.
       (C) Availability.--Copies of the legal description 
     published under subparagraph (A) shall be available for 
     public inspection in the appropriate offices of--
       (i) the Bureau of Land Management; and
       (ii) the National Cemetery Administration.
       (D) Costs.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     reimburse the Secretary for the costs incurred by the 
     Secretary in carrying out this paragraph, including the costs 
     of any surveys and other reasonable costs.
       (c) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, for any 
     period during which the Federal land is under the 
     administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs, the Federal land--
       (1) is withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the 
     public land laws, including the mining laws, the mineral 
     leasing laws, and the geothermal leasing laws; and
       (2) shall be treated as property (as defined in section 102 
     of title 40, United States Code).
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