Sec. 2908. Checkerboard resolution
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The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with Churchill County, Nevada, and landowners in Churchill County, Nevada, and after providing an opportunity for public comment, shall seek to consolidate Federal land and non-Federal land ownership in Churchill County, Nevada. To the extent practicable, the Secretary of the Interior shall offer to exchange land identified for exchange under paragraph
(3)for private land in Churchill County, Nevada, that is adjacent to Federal land in Churchill County, Nevada, if the exchange would consolidate land ownership and facilitate improved land management in Churchill County, Nevada, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a land exchange under this section shall be conducted in accordance with— section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1716 ); and any other applicable law. The Secretary of the Interior shall identify appropriate Federal land in Churchill County, Nevada, to offer for exchange from Federal land identified as potentially suitable for disposal in an applicable resource management plan and managed by— the Commissioner of Reclamation; or the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Land to be exchanged under this section shall be of equal value, based on appraisals prepared in accordance with— the Uniform Standards for Professional Land Acquisitions; and the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary of the Interior may use a mass appraisal to determine the value of land to be exchanged under this section, if the Secretary of the Interior determines that the land to be subject to the mass appraisal is of similar character and value. The Secretary of the Interior shall exclude from a mass appraisal under subparagraph
(A)any land, the value of which is likely to exceed $250 per acre, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall make the results of a mass appraisal conducted under subparagraph
(A)available to the public. Section 4(e)(3)(A) of the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998 ( Public Law 105–263 ; 31 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended— in clause
(iv)by inserting Churchill, after Lincoln, ; in clause
(x)by striking Nevada; and and inserting Nevada; ; in clause
(xi)by striking paragraph (2)(A). and inserting paragraph (2)(A); and ; and by adding at the end the following: reimbursement of costs incurred by the Secretary in the identification, implementation, and consolidation of Federal and non-Federal lands in Churchill County in accordance with section 2908 of division B of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. .
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- Pub. L. 105-263
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