The Secretary must convey the land once the County asks
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land in Arizona to La Paz County, Arizona, and for other purposes, section 3, Sec. 3.
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The Secretary must convey the land once the County asks
The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of the InteriorHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“as soon as practicable after receiving a request from the County to convey the Federal land, the Secretary shall convey the Federal land to the County”
The operative provision of the Act. The conveyance is not automatic: it starts with a request from the County, and once the request is made the Secretary is required to convey. The subsection states that it applies notwithstanding the planning requirement of sections 202 and 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712, 1713), and otherwise in accordance with this section and other applicable law.
What the document actually says
“as soon as practicable after receiving a request from the County to convey the Federal land, the Secretary shall convey the Federal land to the County”
That sentence, in plain words
The county has to ask for the land. After that the Secretary has to hand it over. It must happen as soon as it can.
What this is about
The Secretary is the head of the Interior Department. Two planning steps in an older land law are set aside here. The rest of that law still holds.
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La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act, Public Law 119-68, sec. 3, 139 Stat. 1994 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ68/html/PLAW-119publ68.htm
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“The Secretary must convey the land once the County asks,” La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act, section 3, Sec. 3. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/la-paz-county-solar-energy-job-creation-act/proposal/sec03-conveyance-on-request/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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