Constitutional Law

Comments sought on Clark County NV range

BLM has issued a second Environmental Assessment for the planned Clark County shooting range in southern Nevada; here's the EA. Comments are open until January 29. A quick skim of the EA leaves me with the question of why they had to do it. It sounds as if the statute was clear; give this specific land to the county for this purpose, at no cost. You don't need to analyze a direct and clear order, and several of the alternatives set out in the EA have an analysis that ends with "we can't do it anyway because it would violate the statute." The things that would be subject to analysis are whatever the federal money was spent for, but I don't see much analysis there.

That, and the land was conveyed years ago, and the money already spent... making environmental study a bit late....

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).