A bill to validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and for other purposes.

Affirms and validates a specified patent and the associated land reconfiguration issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as having been issued in compliance with the Nevada-Florida Land Exchange Authorization Act of 1988, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 for the benefit and recovery of the desert tortoise and other species and related habitat. Ratifies: (1) the process used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the BLM in reconfiguring the land as shown in a specified environmental impact statement, and (2) the reconfiguration provided for in a specified Army Corps of Engineers permit.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 729 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 729

 To validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 5, 2011

 Mr. Ensign (for himself and Mr. Reid) 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 validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, 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. FINAL PATENT AND LAND RECONFIGURATION IN CLARK COUNTY AND 
              LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA.

    (a) In General.--Patent number 27-2005-0081 and the associated land 
reconfiguration issued by the Bureau of Land Management on February 18, 
2005, is affirmed and validated as having been issued pursuant to, and 
in compliance with, the Nevada-Florida Land Exchange Authorization Act 
of 1988 (Public Law 100-275; 102 Stat. 52), the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) for the 
benefit of the desert tortoise, other species, and related habitat to 
increase the likelihood of the recovery of the desert tortoise and 
other species.
    (b) Ratification of Reconfiguration.--The process used by the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land 
Management in reconfiguring the land described in subsection (a), as 
depicted on Exhibit 1-4 of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for 
the Planned Development Project MSHCP, Lincoln County, NV (FWS-R8-ES-
2008-N0136), and the reconfiguration provided for in Special Condition 
10 of Army Corps of Engineers Permit No. 200125042 are ratified.
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