1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Conservation area The term Conservation Area means the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. (2) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management). 3. Sloan canyon national conservation area boundary adjustment (a) Boundary adjustment (1) Map Section 603(4) of the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act ( 16 U.S.C. 460qqq–1(4) ) is amended by striking map entitled Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act and dated October 1, 2002 and inserting map entitled Proposed Sloan Canyon Expansion and dated June 7, 2023 . (2) Acreage Section 604(b) of the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act ( 16 U.S.C. 460qqq–2(b) ) is amended by striking 48,438 and inserting 57,728 . (b) Right-of-way Section 605 of the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act ( 16 U.S.C. 460qqq–3 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) Horizon lateral pipeline right-of-way (1) In general Notwithstanding sections 202 and 503 of the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1712 , 1763) and subject to valid existing rights and paragraph (3), the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (referred to in this subsection as the Secretary ), shall, not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, grant to the Southern Nevada Water Authority (referred to in this subsection as the Authority ), not subject to the payment of rents or other charges, the temporary and permanent water pipeline infrastructure, and outside the boundaries of the Conservation Area, powerline, facility, and access road rights-of-way depicted on the map for the purposes of— (A) performing geotechnical investigations within the rights-of-way