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Union Calendar No. 759 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6299 
[Report No. 115–971, Part I] 
To modify the process of the Secretary of the Interior for examining certain 
mining claims on Federal lands in Storey County, Nevada, to facilitate 
certain pinyon-juniper-related projects in Lincoln County, Nevada, to 
modify the boundaries of certain wilderness areas in the State of Nevada, 
to fully implement the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation, 
and Development Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 29, 2018 
Mr. AMODEI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform discharged; committed to 
the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and or-
dered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 29, 2018] 
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A BILL 
To modify the process of the Secretary of the Interior for 
examining certain mining claims on Federal lands in 
Storey County, Nevada, to facilitate certain pinyon-juni-
per-related projects in Lincoln County, Nevada, to mod-
ify the boundaries of certain wilderness areas in the 
State of Nevada, to fully implement the White Pine 
County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act, 
and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nevada Lands Bill Tech-
nical Corrections Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO CONVEYANCE OF FEDERAL LAND 
IN STOREY COUNTY, NEVADA. 
Section 3009(d) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. 
‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2015 (128 Stat. 3751) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking subparagraphs (B) through 
(D) and redesignating subparagraph (E) as sub-
paragraph (D); and 
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
following: 
‘‘(B) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘Federal 
land’ means the land generally depicted as ‘Fed-
eral land’ on the map. 
‘‘(C) MAP.—The term ‘map’ means the map 
entitled ‘Storey County Land Conveyance’ and 
dated June 6, 2018.’’. 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking 
‘‘after completing the mining claim validity re-
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view under paragraph (2)(B), if requested by the 
County,’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) in the matter preceding sub-
clause (I), by striking ‘‘each parcel of 
land located in a mining townsite’’ 
and inserting ‘‘any Federal land’’; 
(II) in subclause (I), by striking 
‘‘mining townsite’’ and inserting ‘‘Fed-
eral land’’; and 
(III) in subclause (II), by striking 
‘‘mining townsite (including improve-
ments to the mining townsite), as iden-
tified for conveyance on the map’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Federal land (including im-
provements)’’; 
(ii) by striking clause (ii); 
(iii) by striking the subparagraph des-
ignation and heading and all that follows 
through ‘‘With respect’’ in the matter pre-
ceding subclause (I) of clause (i) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(B) VALID
MINING
CLAIMS.—With re-
spect’’; and 
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(iv) by redesignating subclauses (I) 
and (II) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, 
and indenting appropriately; 
(3) in paragraph (4)(A), by striking ‘‘a mining 
townsite conveyed under paragraph (3)(B)(i)(II)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Federal land conveyed under para-
graph (2)(B)(ii)’’; 
(4) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘a mining 
townsite under paragraph (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘Fed-
eral land under paragraph (2)’’; 
(5) in paragraph (6), in the matter preceding 
subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘mining townsite’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Federal land’’; 
(6) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘A mining 
townsite to be conveyed by the United States under 
paragraph (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘The exterior boundary 
of the Federal land to be conveyed by the United 
States under paragraph (2)’’; 
(7) in paragraph (9)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘a mining townsite under 
paragraph (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘the Federal land 
under paragraph (2)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the mining townsite’’ and 
inserting ‘‘the Federal land’’; 
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