Official Summaries

Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

This bill provides for the transfer of certain rights-of-way related to the Apex Project from the Department of the Interior to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association.

Specifically, the bill modifies the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989, which provided Clark County, Nevada, with the option to acquire certain federal land referred to as the Apex Site for use as sites for industries that generate hazardous materials (including the Kerr-McGee site). 

Under the bill, the Department of the Interior must grant utility and transportation rights-of-way to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association for the connection of existing electric power, water, natural gas, telephone, railroad, and highway facilities to the Kerr-McGee site and the other lands conveyed in accordance with the bill.

Interior must also grant to the city and association such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development as a heavy use industrial zone of some or all of the lands authorized for sale by Interior within the Apex Site that lie outside the boundaries of the Kerr-McGee site.

Transfers by the United States of any additional lands or interests in lands within the Apex Site or rights-of-way issued pursuant to this bill must be conditioned upon compliance with applicable federal land laws.

The withdrawal of the lands within the Apex Site must continue in perpetuity for all of the transferred lands.

Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

This act directs the Department of the Interior to grant certain rights-of-way related to the Apex Project (an industrial park) to Clark County in Nevada, the city of North Las Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association. Thus, the act expedites the federal permitting process for expanding the industrial park's infrastructure.

Specifically, the act directs Interior to grant utility and transportation rights-of-way to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association for the connection of existing electric power, water, natural gas, telephone, railroad, and highway facilities to lands within the Apex Project site. (Interior is already directed to grant such rights-of-way to Clark County.)

Interior must also grant to the county, the city, and association such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development of the industrial park as a heavy use industrial zone. (Currently, Interior may grant the rights-of-way to the county.)

The act also requires that the withdrawal of the transferred lands within the Apex Site from all forms of entry and appropriation under the public land laws (e.g., leasing the land for minerals) continue in perpetuity.

In the case of the sale of mineral materials resulting from grading or other activities on the surface of a land parcel within the Apex Project site, the sales are exempt from quantity and term limitations placed on noncompetitive sales.

Current Full Text

[119th Congress Public Law 24]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 119-24
119th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 
1989 to include the City of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park 
      Owners Association, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: July 15, 
                          2025 -  [H.R. 618]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Apex Area 
Technical Corrections Act.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Apex Area Technical Corrections 
Act''.
SEC. 2. APEX PROJECT, NEVADA LAND TRANSFER AND AUTHORIZATION ACT 
                    OF 1989.

    The Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989 
(Public Law 101-67; 103 Stat. 168) is amended--
            (1) <<NOTE: 103 Stat. 169.>> in section 2(b)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (8); 
                and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (5) the 
                following: <<NOTE: Definitions.>> 
            ``(6) The term `Apex Industrial Park Owners Association' has 
        the meaning given such term by the charter document for the 
        entity entitled `Apex Industrial Park Owners Association', 
        formed on April 9, 2001, and any successor documents to such 
        charter document, on file with the Nevada Secretary of State.
            ``(7) The term `City of North Las Vegas' means North Las 
        Vegas, Nevada.'';
            (2) <<NOTE: 103 Stat. 170.>> in section 3(b)--
                    (A) by striking ``Clark County for the connection'' 
                and inserting ``Clark County, the City of North Las 
                Vegas, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, 
                individually or jointly as appropriate, for the 
                connection'';
                    (B) by striking ``Kerr-McGee Site'' and inserting 
                ``Kerr-McGee Site and other lands conveyed in accordance 
                with this Act''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``(or any successor maps created by 
                the Secretary)'' after ``May 1989'';
            (3) <<NOTE: 103 Stat. 171.>> in section 4(c), by striking 
        ``Pursuant'' and all that follows through ``Clark County'' and 
        inserting ``During such time as the requirements of section 6 
        are met, and pursuant to applicable law, the Secretary shall 
        grant Clark County, the City of North Las Vegas, and the Apex 
        Industrial Owners Association'';

[[Page 139 STAT. 407]]

            (4) <<NOTE: 103 Stat. 172.>> in section 4(e)(1), by striking 
        the last sentence and inserting ``The withdrawal made by this 
        subsection shall continue in perpetuity for all lands 
        transferred in accordance with this subsection.'';
            (5) in section 4(e), by adding at the end the following:

    ``(3) <<NOTE: Minerals.>> In the case of the sale of mineral 
materials resulting from grading, land balancing, or other activities on 
the surface of a parcel within the Apex Site for which the United States 
retains and interest in the minerals--
            ``(A) it shall be considered impracticable to obtain 
        competition for purposes of section 3602.31(a)(2) of title 43, 
        Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the 
        enactment of the Apex Area Technical Corrections Act); and
            ``(B) <<NOTE: Exemption.>> such sale shall be exempt from 
        the quantity and term limitations imposed on noncompetitive 
        sales under subpart 3602 of such title (as in effect on the date 
        of the enactment of the Apex Area Technical Corrections Act.''; 
        and
            (6) <<NOTE: 103 Stat. 173.>> in section 6, by adding at the 
        end the following:

    ``(d) Compliance With Environmental Assessments.--Each transfer by 
the United States of additional lands or interests in lands within the 
Apex Site or rights-of-way issued pursuant to this Act shall be 
conditioned upon compliance with applicable Federal land laws, including 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976.''.

    Approved July 15, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 618:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 119-86 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            May 13, considered and passed House.
            June 18, considered and passed Senate.

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