Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 124) expressing opposition to banning service in the Armed Forces by openly transgender individuals.
- Last Action
- 3/27/2019
Actions
- 2019-07-10Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- 2019-02-05Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- 2019-01-04Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- 2019-01-04Introduced in House
- 2019-01-04Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-01-04 (00)
Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct sales or exchanges of eligible lands in Pershing County, Nevada, identified as the "Checkerboard Lands Resolution Area."
Interior and the county shall jointly select which parcels of eligible land to offer for sale or acre-for-acre exchange.
For purposes of acre-for-acre exchanges, Interior shall identify management priority areas within the Checkerboard Lands Resolution Area, including those considered to be:
- greater sage-grouse habitat;
- part of an identified wildlife corridor or designated critical habitat;
- of value for outdoor recreation or public access for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes;
- of significant cultural, historic, ecological, or scenic value; or
- of value for improving federal land management.
The bill prescribes requirements for the disposition of proceeds from the sale of lands.
Interior shall convey to the county, without consideration, Unionville Cemetery.
The bill designates specified federal land in Nevada as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and releases specified wilderness study areas from further review for designation as wilderness.
Subjects
- Birds
- Cemeteries and funerals
- Ecology
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government studies and investigations
- Historical and cultural resources
- Hunting and fishing
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Nevada
- Outdoor recreation
- Water use and supply
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
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