This bill became law on 2025-07-15 as Public Law No. 119-24.
The summary below describes the bill at the version we last reviewed; the enacted text may differ.
YourVoice.Now Summary
Corporate BenefitsEnvironmentMost people see nothing change — a Nevada industrial park gets guaranteed federal land access and no-bid gravel sales.
Corporate Benefits
The park's owners group and the City of North Las Vegas can now get federal land routes at Apex. These carry power, water, gas, phone, rail, and road links; before, only Clark County could.
The old law said the Interior Department may grant these land rights. It now says the department must grant them, once the site meets the law's conditions.
Sand, stone, and gravel dug up while grading Apex land can be sold without taking bids. Federal rules normally cap such sales at about 200,000 cubic yards and five years, but not here.
Environment
Transferred Apex land stays closed to new mining claims and to mineral and geothermal leases. The 1989 law ended that block after twelve years; it now has no end date.
Each new land deal or route at Apex must now follow the National Environmental Policy Act. That law makes agencies study the effects on land, air, and water first.
More about this bill
Most people see no change in daily life. This law covers one place — the Apex industrial park, a large development area northeast of North Las Vegas, Nevada. It has been law since July 2025. Two more groups can now get federal land rights there. They are the City of North Las Vegas and the park's owners association. Before, only Clark County could. The Interior Department must now grant those rights when conditions are met. The law also changes how the land itself is treated. Apex land that the federal government hands over is now closed to mining and drilling for good. The old limit ran twelve years. Sand and gravel dug up while leveling the ground can be sold there without competitive bidding. The usual federal caps on the size and length of such sales do not apply. New land transfers and routes must still meet federal environmental laws.
Congressional Summary
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.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Public Law
- Action Date
- 2025-07-15
- Date Added
- 2026-06-08
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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