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Union Calendar No. 401
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2135
[Report No. 104–755]
To provide for the correction of boundaries of certain lands in Clark County,
Nevada, acquired by persons who purchased such lands in good faith
reliance on existing private land surveys.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 27, 1995
Mrs. VUCANOVICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
SEPTEMBER 4, 1996
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 27, 1995]
A BILL
To provide for the correction of boundaries of certain lands
in Clark County, Nevada, acquired by persons who pur-
chased such 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:
(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 Management
have been adversely affected by certain erroneous pri-
vate surveys.
(2) These landowners have occupied or improved
their property in good faith and in reliance on erro-
neous 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 encroachments
existing as of the date of this Act as it affects 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 ac-
cordance with this Act.
SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE OF LANDS.
(a) CLAIMS.—Within one year after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the city of Las Vegas on behalf of the
owners of real property, located adjacent to the lands de-
scribed in subsection (b), may submit to the Secretary of
the Interior (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) in writing a claim to the lands described in sub-
section (b). The claim submitted to the Secretary 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, Ne-
vada, 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,