IIB 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1092
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 16, 2003
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain parcels 
of Federal land in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nevada National For-
est Land Disposal Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States owns, and the Forest 
Service administers, land in small and large parcels 
in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada. 
(2) Much of this Federal land is interspersed 
with or adjacent to private land, which renders the 
Federal land difficult, inefficient, and expensive for 
the Forest Service to manage and more appropriate 
for disposal. 
(3) In order to promote responsible and orderly 
development in Carson City and Douglas County, 
Nevada, appropriate parcels of the Federal land 
should be sold by the Federal Government based on 
recommendations made by units of local government 
and the public. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to provide 
for the sale of certain parcels of Federal land in Carson 
City and Douglas County, Nevada.
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SEC. 3. DISPOSAL OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS, 
CARSON CITY AND DOUGLAS COUNTY, NE-
VADA. 
(a) DISPOSAL REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 
shall sell any right, title, or interest of the United States 
in and to the following parcels of National Forest System 
lands in Carson City or Douglas County, Nevada: 
(1) The parcel of land referred to as the ‘‘Car-
son Parcel’’, consisting of approximately 3 acres, 
and more particularly described as being a portion 
of the southeast quarter, section 31, township 15 
north, range 20 east, Mount Diablo Base and Merid-
ian. 
(2) The parcel of land referred to as the ‘‘Jacks 
Valley/Highway 395 Parcel’’, consisting of approxi-
mately 28 acres, and more particularly described as 
being a portion of the northwest quarter of the 
southeast quarter, section 6, township 14 north, 
range 20 east, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. 
(3) The parcel of land referred to as the ‘‘In-
dian Hills Parcel’’, consisting of approximately 75 
acres, and more particularly described as being a 
portion of the southwest quarter, section 18, town-
ship 14 north, range 20 east, Mount Diablo Base 
and Meridian.
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(4) The parcel of land referred to as the 
‘‘Mountain House Area Parcel’’, consisting of ap-
proximately 40 acres, and more particularly de-
scribed as being a portion of the northwest quarter 
of the northeast quarter, section 12, township 10 
north, range 21 east, Mount Diablo Base and Merid-
ian. 
(5) The parcel of land referred to as the ‘‘Hol-
brook Junction Area Parcel’’, consisting of approxi-
mately 80 acres, and more particularly described as 
being a portion of the west half of the southwest 
quarter, section 7, township 10 north, range 22 east, 
Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. 
(6) The two parcels of land referred to as the 
‘‘Topaz Lake Parcels’’, consisting of approximately 
5 acres (approximately 2.5 acres per parcel), and 
more particularly described as being portions of the 
northwest quarter, section 29, township 10 north, 
range 22 east, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. 
(b) MODIFICATION
OF DESCRIPTIONS.—The Sec-
retary may—
(1) correct typographical or clerical errors in 
the descriptions of land specified in subsection (a); 
and
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(2) for the purposes of soliciting offers for the 
sale of such land, modify the descriptions based 
on—
(A) a survey; or 
(B) a determination by the Secretary that 
the modification is in the best interest of the 
public. 
(c) SELECTION AND SALE.—
(1) COORDINATION.—The Secretary shall co-
ordinate the sale of land under this section with the 
unit of local government in which the land is located. 
(2) EXISTING RIGHTS.—The sale of land under 
this section shall be subject to all valid existing 
rights, such as rights-of-way, in effect as of the date 
of the sale. In the case of the parcel described in 
subsection (a)(2), all access rights in and to United 
States Highway 395, together with any and all 
abutter’s rights adjacent to the westerly right-of-way 
line of such highway, within the parcel shall be re-
stricted. 
(3) ZONING LAWS.—The sale of land under this 
section shall be in accordance with local land use 
planning and zoning laws and regulations. 
(4) SOLICITATIONS OF OFFERS.—The Secretary 
shall solicit offers for the sale of land under this sec-
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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).
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(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
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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, as 
codified by Public Law 107–217 (116 Stat. 1062). 
(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
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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 October 15, 
2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.