US hands off Money from NV Public Land Sales

Bush's hand may have been pulled from state's till
By Benjamin Grove
Las Vegas Sun
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration may be backing off its proposal to siphon public land sale profits now pouring into Nevada away from the state and into the U.S. Treasury to help offset the deficit.

Bush proposed that 70 percent of the profits from federal public land auctions in Clark County, held under rules laid out in the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, be funneled to federal coffers. The profits currently are used solely in Nevada for land, water and education programs. Nevada lawmakers successfully stopped the administration plan in Congress.........

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