I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2015 
To provide for certain land conveyances in the State of Nevada, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 16, 2013 
Mr. HORSFORD (for himself, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. HECK of Nevada, and Ms. 
TITUS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To provide for certain land conveyances in the State of 
Nevada, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil 
Beds National Monument Act of 2013’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. 
Sec. 3. Addition of land to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. 
Sec. 4. Conveyance of Bureau of Land Management land to North Las Vegas. 
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Sec. 5. Conveyance of Bureau of Land Management land to Las Vegas. 
Sec. 6. Expansion of conveyance to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. 
Sec. 7. Spring Mountains National Recreation Area withdrawal. 
Sec. 8. Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998 amendments. 
Sec. 9. Conveyance of land to the Nevada System of Higher Education. 
Sec. 10. Land Conveyance for Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport. 
Sec. 11. Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area release. 
Sec. 12. Nellis Dunes Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area. 
Sec. 13. Conveyance of land for Nellis Air Force Base. 
Sec. 14. Military overflights. 
SEC. 2. TULE SPRINGS FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONU-
MENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(1) since 1933, the Upper Las Vegas Wash has 
been valued by scientists because of the significant 
paleontological resources demonstrative of the Pleis-
tocene Epoch that are located in the area; 
(2) in 2004, during the preparation of the Las 
Vegas Valley Disposal Boundary Final Environ-
mental Impact Statement, the Bureau of Land Man-
agement identified sensitive biological, cultural, and 
paleontological resources determined to be worthy of 
more evaluation with respect to the protective status 
of the resources; 
(3) the Upper Las Vegas Wash contains thou-
sands of paleontological resources from the Pleisto-
cene Epoch that are preserved in a unique geological 
context that are of national importance, including 
Columbian mammoth, ground sloth, American lion, 
camels, and horse fossils; 
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(4) in addition to Joshua trees and several spe-
cies of cacti, the Las Vegas buckwheat, Merriam’s 
bearpoppy, and the Las Vegas bearpoppy are 3 
unique and imperiled plants that are supported in 
the harsh desert environment of Tule Springs; 
(5) the area provides important habitat for 
threatened desert tortoise, endemic poppy bees, kit 
foxes, 
burrowing 
owls, 
LeConte’s 
thrasher, 
phainopepla, and a variety of reptiles; 
(6) in studies of the area conducted during the 
last decade, the Bureau of Land Management and 
National Park Service determined that the area like-
ly contains the longest continuous section of Pleisto-
cene strata in the desert southwest, which span mul-
tiple important global climate cooling and warming 
episodes; 
(7) the Upper Las Vegas Wash is significant to 
the culture and history of the native and indigenous 
people of the area, including the Southern Paiute 
Tribe; 
(8) despite the findings of the studies and rec-
ommendations for further assessment of the re-
sources for appropriate methods of protection— 
(A) the area remains inadequately pro-
tected; and 
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