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 PUBLIC LAW 96-586—DEC. 23, 1980 Public Law 96-586 96th Congress

94 STAT. 3381

An Act

To provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands in Nevada and for the acquisition of certain other lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin, and for other purposes.

Dec. 23, 1980 [H.R. 7306]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Nevada and United States of America in Congress assembled. Lake SECTION 1. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Bureau of Land Management heis extensive land owner- Tahoe Basin, land ship in small parcels interspersed with or adjacent to private disposal and aclands in urban areas of Clark County, Nevada; quisition. (2) for orderly development of the communities in that county certain of those lands should be sold by the Federal Government; (3) the Lake Tahoe Basin is a closed basin two-thirds of which is located within the State of California and one-third within the State of Nevada; (4) the environmental quality of the Lake Tahoe Basin is seriously jeopardized by overdevelopment of sensitive land areas; (5) a majority of the acreage developed within the Lake Tahoe Basin and the potential for further development of sensitive land areas is within California; (6) further tourist oriented development within the basin encourages significant permanent development of other kinds as well as tourist visitation; and (7) the unique character of the Lake Tahoe Basin is of national significance deserving of further protection and management. (b) The purpose of this Act is to provide for the orderly disposal of Federal lands in Clark County, Nevada, and to provide for acquisition of environmentally sensitive lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin. SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior Giereinafter in this Act Clark County, referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized and directed to dispose of Nev.;disposal. lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in land Clark County, Nevada, as shown on the map numbered 7306A, dated May 1980, and entitled "Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Land Sales Map", which map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Bureau of Land Management. Such disposal shall be in accordance with regulations developed jointly by the Secretary and the affected local governmental jurisdictions and shall be consistent with the provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 43 USC 1701 and other applicable law except to the extent necessary to expedi- note. tiously carry out the provisions of this Act. Qo) No more than seven hundred acres per calendar year may be Annual acreage offered for sale by the Bureau of Land Management in Clark County. limit. (c) Notwithstanding section lOt)), the Secretary and the affected local governmental jurisdictions shall jointly select lands to be Land selection. offered for sale under this Act. The Secretary may not offer any land for sale if in his judgment such land has not been appropriately classified in accordance with adjacent land use by the local governmental jurisdiction. In the event agreement cannot be reached on joint selection, no lands shall be offered for sale.

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