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Week Ending May 27, 2005

HR 849 to provide for the conveyance of certain public land in Clark County, Nevada, for use as a heliport.

BRIEF

  Clark County, Nevada is home to the City of Las Vegas. Not uncommon in tourist towns, helicopter tours are popular, but in Clark County the flight paths are causing headaches in some residential communities that they fly over enroute to the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area (SCNCA) and the North McCullough Mountains Wilderness.

  The bill would convey to Clark County 229 acres of Federal land to be used as a heliport.

  The County must agree to receive $3 per passenger conservation fee if any portion of the tour passes over the SCNCA and those funds would be deposited in the US Treasury to be used to manage cultural, wildlife and wilderness resources in Nevada. Flights would be restricted to certain areas of the SCNCA and can pass no lower than 1,000 feet over some areas and 500 feet others.

   All administrative, survey and other land transfer costs would be paid by Nevada and the land must be used as described and can not be sold by the County or else title will revert to the Federal Government.

Sponsor: Representative Jim Gibbons (R-NV-2^nd)

Vote: Passed House by voice vote (May 23, 2005)

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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