Description:
S. 1436 would authorize the following land conveyances between the federal government and various tribes in Nevada:
- 19,094 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to be held in trust for the benefit of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe;
- 82 acres of land managed by the United States Forest Service to be held in trust for the benefit of the Shoshone Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation;
- 941 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Summit Lake Paiute Tribe;
- 13,434 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony;
- 6,357 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe; and
- 31,229 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe.
Based on information from the affected agencies, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would have no significant effect on the federal budget. Under current law, CBO expects that programs to develop federally owned natural resources on some of the lands to be conveyed will generate receipts, particularly from grazing permits. Thus, CBO estimates that conveying those lands would reduce offsetting receipts (which are treated as increases in direct spending); however, we estimate that such losses would be insignificant.
Because enacting S. 1436 would increase direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting S. 1436 would not affect revenues. CBO estimates that enacting S. 1436 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits by more than $5 billion in any of the next four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2026.
S. 1436 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
