113 HR 5086 : To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.
U.S. House of Representatives
2014-12-10
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1.Chief Standing Bear national historic trail feasibility study
(a)Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(__)Chief Standing Bear national historic trail
(A)The Chief Standing Bear Trail, extending approximately 550 miles from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca
City, Oklahoma, which follows the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and
the Ponca people during Federal Indian removal, and approximately 550
miles from Ponca City, Oklahoma, through Omaha, Nebraska, to Niobrara,
Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and
the Ponca people, as generally depicted on the map entitled Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail Feasibility Study
, numbered 903/125,630, and dated November 2014.
(B)The map described in subparagraph (A) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the
appropriate offices of the Department of the Interior.
(C)The feasibility study conducted pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall include a determination on
whether the Chief Standing Bear Trail meets the criteria in subsection (b)
for designation as a national historic trail..
(b)The feasibility study authorized by the amendment in subsection (a) shall be completed not later
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives December 9, 2014.Karen L. Haas,Clerk