Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 235.
This bill amends the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act to adjust the NCA boundary using a new map and increases the listed acreage from 48,438 to 57,728 acres. It directs the Interior Secretary (through BLM) to grant, within one year, temporary and permanent rights-of-way to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for a Horizon lateral water pipeline and associated infrastructure depicted on the map, outside the Conservation Area.
Progressives emphasize conservation gain and demands strict mitigation.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill directly and specifically amends existing statute to enlarge the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area and to authorize a named pipeline right-of-way, with clear map, acreage, implementing authority, and short implementation timelines.
This bill amends the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act to adjust the NCA boundary using a new map and increases the listed acreage from 48,438 to 57,728 acres.
It directs the Interior Secretary (through BLM) to grant, within one year, temporary and permanent rights-of-way to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for a Horizon lateral water pipeline and associated infrastructure depicted on the map, outside the Conservation Area.
The bill allows the Authority to excavate and dispose of materials from tunneling and requires a memorandum of understanding identifying Federal disposal sites; rights-of-way are subject to reasonable terms, must not permanently adversely affect surface resources, and may not cross designated wilderness.
Targeted, low-cost land and infrastructure bill with built-in protections; success depends on resolving environmental/process objections in the Senate.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill directly and specifically amends existing statute to enlarge the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area and to authorize a named pipeline right-of-way, with clear map, acreage, implementing authority, and short implementation timelines.
Progressives emphasize conservation gain and demands strict mitigation.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize conservation gain and demands strict mitigation.
Likely supportive of the NCA expansion because it protects additional public lands while recognizing a community water need.
Concerned about provisions that grant rights-of-way without payment and allow material disposal; would demand strong environmental safeguards and enforcement.
Views the prohibition on crossing wilderness and requirement to avoid permanent surface harms as helpful but potentially vague in practice.
Sees the bill as a pragmatic compromise balancing land protection and critical water infrastructure.
Likely to support if environmental review and clear terms are ensured, and if implementation avoids unforeseen impacts.
Will evaluate administrative capacity, cost implications, and legal defensibility before full endorsement.
Likely skeptical of expanding federally controlled conserved land and of granting ROWs without payment.
May appreciate the water infrastructure provision but objects to perceived giveaway to a regional authority and increased federal land restrictions.
Concerned about precedent limiting future development or imposing regulatory constraints.
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Targeted, low-cost land and infrastructure bill with built-in protections; success depends on resolving environmental/process objections in the Senate.
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Progressives emphasize conservation gain and demands strict mitigation.
Targeted, low-cost land and infrastructure bill with built-in protections; success depends on resolving environmental/process objections in…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill directly and specifically amends existing statute to enlarge the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area and to authorize a named pipeline right-of-way, with clear ma…
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