Three current laws—the Lincoln County Land Act of 2000, the Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act of 2004, and the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998—provide for the disposal of public lands within Lincoln and Clark Counties in Nevada. Under those laws, proceeds from land sales are deposited into special accounts that are available to be spent by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to facilitate land sales, develop land management plans, and perform other specified activities in Lincoln and Clark Counties.
H.R. 1815 would authorize BLM and the USFWS to spend funds available in those accounts to carry out additional activities in Lincoln and Clark Counties.
Spending from the special accounts occurs without further appropriation, and are thus considered direct spending. Based on information from BLM and the USFWS, CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would increase spending from those accounts by $2 million over the 2017-2026 period. The legislation also would make other changes to the management of federal lands that CBO estimates would have no significant cost.
Because enacting H.R. 1815 would affect direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues.
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1815 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits by more than $5 billion in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.
H.R. 1815 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
