tion, subject to any terms or conditions that the Sec-
retary may prescribe. The Secretary may reject any
offer made under this section if the Secretary deter-
mines that the offer is not adequate or not in the
public interest.
(5) METHOD
OF
SALE.—The Secretary shall
sell the land described in subsection (a) at public
auction.
(d) DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS.—
(1) PAYMENTS AND DEPOSITS.—Of the gross
proceeds from any sale of land under this section,
the Secretary shall—
(A) pay five percent to the State of Ne-
vada for use for the general education program
of the State;
(B) pay five percent to the Carson Water
Subconservancy District in the State;
(C) deposit 25 percent in the fund estab-
lished under Public Law 90–171 (commonly
known as the ‘‘Sisk Act’’; 16 U.S.C. 484a); and
(D) retain and use, without further appro-
priation, the remaining funds for the purpose of
expanding the Minden Interagency Dispatch
Center in Minden, Nevada, as provided in para-
graph (3).
(2) USE OF SISK ACT FUNDS.—The amounts
deposited under paragraph (1)(C) shall be available
to the Secretary until expended, without further ap-
propriation, for the following purposes:
(A) Reimbursement of costs incurred by
the local offices of the Forest Service in car-
rying out land sales under this section, except
that the total amount of reimbursement may
not exceed 10 percent of the total proceeds of
the lands sales.
(B) The development and maintenance of
parks, trails, and natural areas in Carson City,
Douglas County, or Washoe County, Nevada, in
accordance with a cooperative agreement en-
tered into with the unit of local government in
which the park, trail, or natural area is located.
(3) MINDEN
INTERAGENCY
DISPATCH
CEN-
TER.—The Minden Interagency Dispatch Center is
located on land made available by the State of Ne-
vada in Minden, Nevada, and will serve as a joint fa-
cility for the Forest Service and the Nevada Division
of Forestry for the purpose of fighting wildland
fires. The expansion of the center shall include living
quarters and office space for the Blackmountain
Hotshot Crew, a guard station for housing engines
and patrol vehicles, an air traffic control tower, a
training facility, and a warehouse.
(4) LIMITATION.—None of the amounts made
available to the Carson Water Subconservancy Dis-
trict under paragraph (1)(B) shall be used to pay
the costs of litigation.
(e) RELATION TO OTHER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
LAWS.—The land described in subsection (a) shall not be
subject to chapter 5 of title 40, United States Code.
(f) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights,
all Federal land described in subsection (a) is withdrawn
from location, entry, and patent under the public land
laws, mining laws, and mineral leasing laws, including geo-
thermal leasing laws.
(g) REVOCATION OF PUBLIC LAND ORDERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—To facilitate the sale of par-
cels of land described in subsection (a), the Sec-
retary shall revoke any public land orders in exist-
ence on the date of the enactment of this Act that
withdraw the parcels from all forms of appropriation
under the public land laws, to the extent that the or-
ders apply to land described in such subsection (a).
(2) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—A revocation under
paragraph (1) shall be effective on the date on which
the instrument conveying the parcels of land subject
to the public land order is executed.
(h) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to the
Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Sen-
ate an annual report on all land sales made under this
section.
Passed the House of Representatives March 14,
2005.
Attest:
Clerk.