Nevada § 218E.500 - Legislative findings and declarations

§ 218E.500. Legislative findings and declarations

The Legislature finds and declares that: 1. Policies and issues relating to public lands and state sovereignty as impaired

by federal ownership of land are matters of continuing concern to this State. 2. This concern necessarily includes an awareness that all federal statutes, policies

and regulations which affect the management of public lands are likely to have extensive

effects within the State and must not be ignored or automatically dismissed as beyond

the reach of the state's policymakers. 3. Experience with federal regulations relating to public lands has demonstrated that

the State of Nevada and its citizens are subjected to regulations which sometimes

are unreasonable, arbitrary, beyond the intent of the Congress or the scope of the

authority of the agency adopting them and that as a result these regulations should

be subjected to legislative review and comment, and judicially tested where appropriate,

to protect the rights and interests of the State and its citizens. 4. Other western states where public lands comprise a large proportion of the total

area have shown an interest in matters relating to public lands and those states,

along with Nevada, have been actively participating in cooperative efforts to acquire,

evaluate and share information and promote greater understanding of the issues. Since Nevada can both contribute to and benefit from such interstate activities,

it is appropriate that a subcommittee on matters relating to public lands be assigned

primary responsibility for participating in them.