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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2414 

To transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management land from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans 

Affairs for use as a national cemetery, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 8, 2018 

Mr. HELLER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau 

of Land Management land from the Secretary of the 

Interior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for use 

as a national cemetery, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Elko National Ceme5 tery Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

7 In this Act: 


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1 (1) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal land’’ 

2 means the approximately 15 acres of Bureau of 

3 Land Management land in Elko, Nevada, that is 

4 more particularly described as T. 34 N., R. 55 E., 

5 sec. 8 NW, and is identified as ‘‘Parcels 1–6’’ on the 

6 map entitled ‘‘T. 34 N., R. 55 E., Section 8 NW’’. 

7 (2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

8 the Secretary of the Interior. 

9 SEC. 3. TRANSFER AND WITHDRAWAL OF BUREAU OF LAND 

10 MANAGEMENT LAND FOR USE AS A NA11 TIONAL CEMETERY. 

12 (a) TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDIC13 TION.— 

14 (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing 

15 rights, administrative jurisdiction over the Federal 

16 land is transferred from the Secretary to the Sec17 retary of Veterans Affairs for use as a national cem18 etery in accordance with chapter 24 of title 38, 

19 United States Code. 

20 (2) LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.— 

21 (A) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable 

22 after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec23 retary shall publish in the Federal Register a 

24 notice containing a legal description of the Fed25 eral land. 


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1 (B) EFFECT.—A legal description pub2 lished under subparagraph (A) shall have the 

3 same force and effect as if included in this Act, 

4 except that the Secretary may correct any cler5 ical and typographical errors in the legal de6 scription. 

7 (C) AVAILABILITY.—Copies of the legal de8 scription published under subparagraph (A) 

9 shall be available for public inspection in the 

10 appropriate offices of— 

11 (i) the Bureau of Land Management; 

12 and 

13 (ii) the National Cemetery Adminis14 tration. 

15 (D) COSTS.—The Secretary of Veterans 

16 Affairs shall reimburse the Secretary for the 

17 costs incurred by the Secretary in carrying out 

18 this paragraph, including the costs of any sur19 veys and other reasonable costs. 

20 (b) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 

21 for any period during which the Federal land is under the 

22 administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans 

23 Affairs, the Federal land— 

24 (1) is withdrawn from all forms of appropria25 tion under the public land laws, including the mining 


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1 laws, the mineral leasing laws, and the geothermal 

2 leasing laws; and 

3 (2) shall be treated as property (as defined in 

4 section 102 of title 40, United States Code). 

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