Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act

This bill makes the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area in Clark County, Nevada, about 9,290 acres bigger. It also requires the Bureau of Land Management to give the Southern Nevada Water Authority permission to build and operate a water pipeline and related facilities through the conservation area and other federal land. The pipeline cannot go through areas designated as wilderness, and its construction cannot permanently damage the surface of the conservation area. The bill also lets the water authority dig up and dispose of materials like sand and gravel during tunneling, and it makes sure that existing rights, like utility lines, are still allowed in the expanded area.

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