102 STAT. 56
Energy. Utah.
Safety.
Claims.
PUBLIC LAW 100-275—MAR. 31, 1988 (3) ALTERNATIVE TO CORRIDOR ON CERTAIN LANDS.—If, after five years from the date of enactment of this Act, other public lands within the six-mile width of land immediately west of the Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada, land referred to in section 3(b) are returned to multiple use, are suitable as an alternative to the corridor reserved in this subsection, and are made available for the construction, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission lines, no further rights-of-way or other rights or privileges to construct, operate, and maintain electric transmission lines within the corridor reserved in this subsection shall be granted by the Secretary unless— (A) such rights-of-way or other rights or privileges are pursuant to or in furtherance or continuation of the specific rights referred to in subsection (c); (B) at the time the land becomes so available there is pending an application for a right-of-way in the corridor reserved in this subsection and in the opinion of the Secretary such application is being diligently pursued; or (C) such rights-of-way or other rights or privileges are in renewal of a right-of-way granted prior to the land becoming so available. (c) PRESERVATION OF EXISTING RiGHTS.—The existing rights referred to in section 3(a) include the right-of-way (Number U 42519, granted April 3, 1980) to construct, operate, and maintain an electric transmission line from the Intermountain Power Project at Delta, Utah, through the land in Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada, referred to in section 3(b), and the interest of the White Pine Power Project in the Southern Transmission System (described and analyzed in the final Environmental Impact Statement as the selected alternative and displayed on the map attached to the Record of Decision approved on March 26, 1985), within the land in Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada, referred to in section 3(b). Nothing in this Act or in the draft exchange agreement referred to in subsection (g) shall negate or diminish such existing rights in any respect, except that (unless otherwise agreed to by the owner of the land in Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada, referred to in section 3(b)) on and after the consummation of the exchange of lands authorized by this Act and without further act by the holders of such existing rights, such existing rights shall be altered so that— (1) all transmission lines and related facilities to be located on the land in Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada, referred to in section 3(b) pursuant to such existing rights may only be located within the corridor referenced in subsection (b); and (2) the right to locate such transmission lines and related facilities pursuant to such existing rights on the land in Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada, referred to in section 3(b) outside of that corridor shall be extinguished and of no further force or effect. (d) OFF-ROAD VEHICLES AND ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES.—Except for purposes of administration or in cases of emergency or for public safety, off-road vehicles and all-terrain vehicles may not be used on unroaded portions of land located in the State of Nevada which is conveyed or leased under this Act. (e) IMMUNITY.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States, its officers, employees, and instrumentalities, may not be held liable for, and shall be immune from, any claim arising
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