House OKs Clark County land bills
WASHINGTON -- The House on Tuesday passed two bills that would convey 135 acres of federally controlled land to local uses in Clark County.
A bill that gives 65 acres at the base of Sunrise Mountain to the county for neighborhood flood control passed 374-0.
The land is designated for wilderness study but would become part of a 100-acre master plan to divert floodwaters along an earthen berm and into a detention basin.
The flood control project is being designed to shield 1,800 acres of development abutting the mountainside.
"This is a critical need for one of the fastest-growing areas of the United States," said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah.
A second bill, which passed 377-0, would transfer 80 acres in Summerlin for a cancer treatment facility, medical offices, a park, a water pumping station and a flood channel.
The Bureau of Land Management would give 24.4 acres at Alta Drive and Hualapai Way to the Nevada Cancer Institute. The remainder of the land would go to Las Vegas, which plans to sell 16 acres for adjoining offices.
The bills, which were sponsored by Nevada House members, move to the Senate.
