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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2135
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
SEPTEMBER 5, 1996
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
AN ACT
To provide for the relief of certain persons in Clark County,
Nevada, who purchased lands in good faith reliance on
existing private land surveys.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds and declares that:
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(1) Certain landowners in the (North) Decatur
Boulevard area of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas,
Clark County, Nevada, who own property adjacent
to lands managed by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment have been adversely affected by certain erro-
neous private surveys.
(2) These landowners have occupied or im-
proved their property in good faith and in reliance
on erroneous surveys of their properties that they
believed were accurate.
(3) These landowners presumed their occupancy
was codified through an Eighth Judicial District
Court (Nevada) Judgment and Decree filed October
26, 1989, as a ‘‘friendly lawsuit’’ affecting numerous
landowners in the (North) Decatur Boulevard area.
(4) The 1990 Bureau of Land Management de-
pendent resurvey and section subdivision of sections
6, 7, 18, and 19, T. 19 S., R. 61 E., Mount Diablo
Meridian, Nevada, correctly established accurate
boundaries between such public lands and private
lands.
(5) The Bureau of Land Management has the
authority to sell public lands which are affected as
a result of erroneous private survey and encroach-
ments existing as of the date of this Act as it affects
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T. 19 S., R. 61 E., sections 18 and 19, and T. 19
S. R. 60 E., section 13 and 24, if encroachments
based on the same erroneous private survey are
identified, in accordance with this Act.
SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE OF LANDS.
(a) CLAIMS.—Within one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the city of Las Vegas on behalf
of the owners of real property, located adjacent to the
lands described in subsection (b), may submit to the Sec-
retary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act referred to
as the ‘‘Secretary’’) in writing a claim to the lands de-
scribed in subsection (b). The claim submitted to the Sec-
retary shall be accompanied by—
(1) a description of the lands claimed;
(2) information relating to the claim of owner-
ship of such lands; and
(3) such other information as the Secretary
may require.
(b) LANDS DESCRIBED.—The lands described in this
subsection are those Federal lands located in the Bureau
of Land Management Las Vegas District, Clark County,
Nevada, in sections 18 and 19, T. 19 S., R. 61 E., Mount
Diablo Meridian, as described by the dependent resurvey
by the Bureau of Land Management accepted May 4,
1990, under Group No. 683, Nevada, and subsequent sup-
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plemental plats of sections 18 and 19, T. 19 S., R. 61
E., Mount Diablo Meridian, as contained on plats accepted
November 17, 1992. Such lands are described as (1) gov-
ernment lots 22, 23, 26, and 27 in said section 18; and
(2) government lots 20, 21, and 24 in said section 19,
containing 29.36 acres, more or less.
(c) CONVEYANCE.—The Secretary shall convey all
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to
the public lands described in subsection (b) to the city of
Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, upon payment by the
city of fair market value based on a Bureau of Land Man-
agement approved appraised market value of the lands as
of December 1, 1982, and on the condition that the city
convey the effected lands to the land owners referred to
in subsection (a).
Passed the House of Representatives September 4,
1996.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.