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Calendar No. 708
115TH CONGRESS } REPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-409
PERSHING COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
CONSERVATION ACT
DECEMBER 4, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 414]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 414) to promote conservation, improve public
land management, and provide for sensible development in Per-
shing County, Nevada, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 414 is to promote conservation, improve public
land management, and provide for sensible development in Per-
shing County, Nevada.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
When work began on the transcontinental railroad in 1863, the
Federal government granted railroad companies with ownership of
every other square mile of land across the West, while retaining
ownership of the squares of land in between. The land grants al-
lowed railroad companies to pay for construction of the trans-
continental railroad by selling their sections. The resulting checker-
board land ownership pattern still stretches across the northern
portion of the State of Nevada in a broad band along the 1-80 west
corridor within Pershing County (County).
In Pershing County more than 75 percent (nearly 2.9 million
acres) of the land is owned by the United States and administered
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