113 S2346 IS: National Discovery Trails Act of 2014
U.S. Senate
2014-05-15
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1.
This Act may be cited as the
National Discovery Trails Act of 2014
.
2.
National Trails
System Act amendments
(a)
National
discovery trails
Section 3(a)
of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1242(a)) is amended by
inserting
after paragraph (4) the following:
(5)
National discovery
trails, established under section 5, which will be extended,
continuous,
interstate trails so located as to provide for outstanding outdoor
recreation
and travel and to connect representative examples of America’s
trails and
communities. National discovery trails should provide for the
conservation and
enjoyment of significant natural, cultural, and historic resources
associated
with each trail and should be so located as to represent
metropolitan, urban,
rural, and back country regions of the Nation. Any such trail may
be designated
on Federal lands and, with the consent of the owner thereof, on any
non-Federal
lands.
.
(b)
Designation of
the American discovery trail as a national discovery
trail
Section 5(a) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
(31)
The American
Discovery Trail, a trail of approximately 6,000 miles extending
from Cape
Henlopen State Park in Delaware to Point Reyes National Seashore in
California,
extending westward through Delaware, Maryland, the District of
Columbia, West
Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, where near Cincinnati it splits into
two routes.
The Northern Midwest route traverses Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska,
and Colorado, and the Southern Midwest route traverses Indiana,
Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. After the two routes rejoin in
Denver,
Colorado, the route continues through Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and
California.
The trail is generally described in Volume 2 of the National Park
Service
feasibility study dated June 1995 which shall be on file and
available for
public inspection in the office of the Director of the National
Park Service,
Department of the Interior, the District of Columbia. The American
Discovery
Trail shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in
cooperation
with at least one competent trailwide volunteer-based organization
and other
affected Federal land managing agencies, and State and local
governments, as
appropriate. No lands or interests outside the exterior boundaries
of federally
administered areas may be acquired by the Federal Government solely
for the
American Discovery Trail. The provisions of sections 7(e), 7(f),
and 7(g) shall
not apply to the American Discovery
Trail.
.
(c)
Comprehensive
national discovery trail plan
Section 7 of such Act (16 U.S.C.
1246) is further amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
(l)
(1)
For purposes of
subsection (5)(b), a trail shall not be considered feasible and
desirable for
designation as a national discovery trail unless it meets all of
the following
criteria:
(A)
The trail must link one or more areas
within the boundaries of a metropolitan area (as those boundaries
are
determined under section 134(c) of title 23, United States Code).
It should
also join with other trails, connecting the National Trails System
to
significant recreation and resources areas.
(B)
The trail must be supported by at
least one competent trailwide volunteer-based organization. Each
trail should
have extensive local and trailwide support by the public, by user
groups, and
by affected State and local governments.
(C)
The trail must be extended and pass
through more than one State. At a minimum, it should be a
continuous, walkable
route.
(2)
The appropriate Secretary for each
national discovery trail shall administer the trail in cooperation
with at
least one competent trailwide volunteer-based organization. Where
the
designation of discovery trail is aligned with other units of the
National
Trails System, or State or local trails, the designation of a
discovery trail
shall not affect the protections or authorities provided for the
other trail or
trails, nor shall the designation of a discovery trail diminish the
values and
significance for which those trails were established. Not later
than three
complete fiscal years after the date of the enactment of any law
designating a
national discovery trail, the appropriate Secretary shall submit a
comprehensive plan for the protection, management, development, and
use of the
trail, to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States
House of
Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
of the United
States Senate. The responsible Secretary shall ensure that the
comprehensive
plan for the entire trail does not conflict with existing agency
direction and
shall consult with the affected land managing agencies, the
Governors of the
affected States, affected county and local political jurisdictions,
and local
organizations maintaining components of the trail. Components of
the
comprehensive plan include—
(A)
policies and practices to be observed
in the administration and management of the trail, including the
identification
of all significant natural, historical, and cultural resources to
be preserved,
model agreements necessary for joint trail administration among and
between
interested parties, and an identified carrying capacity for
critical segments
of the trail and a plan for their implementation where appropriate;
(B)
general and site-specific
trail-related development including costs; and
(C)
the process to be followed by the
volunteer-based organization, in cooperation with the appropriate
Secretary, to
implement the trail marking authorities in subsection (c)
conforming to
approved trail logo or emblem requirements. Nothing in this Act may
be
construed to impose or permit the imposition of any landowner on
the use of any
non-Federal lands without the consent of the owner thereof. Neither
the
designation of a national discovery trail nor any plan relating
thereto shall
affect or be considered in the granting or denial of a right of way
or any
conditions relating
thereto.
.
3.
The National Trails
System Act is amended—
(1)
in section 2(b)
(16 U.S.C. 1241(b)), by striking scenic and historic
and
inserting scenic, historic, and discovery
;
(2)
in the section
heading to section 5 (16 U.S.C. 1244), by striking and national historic
and
inserting , national
historic, and national discovery
;
(3)
in section 5(a)
(16 U.S.C. 1244(a)), in the matter preceding paragraph (1)—
(A)
by striking
and national historic
and inserting , national historic,
and national discovery
; and
(B)
by striking
and National Historic
and inserting , National Historic,
and National Discovery
;
(4)
in section 5(b)
(16 U.S.C. 1244(b)), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking
or national historic
and inserting , national historic,
or national discovery
;
(5)
in section 5(b)(3)
(16 U.S.C. 1244(b)(3)), by striking or national historic
and
inserting , national historic, or national discovery
;
(6)
in section 7(a)(2)
(16 U.S.C. 1246(a)(2)), by striking and national historic
and
inserting , national historic, and national discovery
;
(7)
in section 7(b)
(16 U.S.C. 1246(b)), by striking or national historic
each place
such term appears and inserting , national historic, or national
discovery
;
(8)
in section 7(c)
(16 U.S.C. 1246(c))—
(A)
by striking
scenic or national historic
each place it appears and inserting
scenic, national historic, or national discovery
;
(B)
in the second
proviso, by striking scenic, or national historic
and inserting
scenic, national historic, or national discovery
; and
(C)
by striking
, and national historic
and inserting , national
historic, and national discovery
;
(9)
in section 7(d)
(16 U.S.C. 1246(d)), by striking or national historic
and
inserting national historic, or national discovery
;
(10)
in section 7(e)
(16 U.S.C. 1246(e)), by striking or national historic
each place
such term appears and inserting , national historic, or national
discovery
;
(11)
in section
7(f)(2) (16 U.S.C. 1246(f)(2)), by striking National Scenic or Historic
Trail
and inserting national scenic, historic, or discovery
trail
;
(12)
in section
7(h)(1) (16 U.S.C. 1246(h)(1)), by striking or national historic
and inserting national historic, or national discovery
;
and
(13)
in section 7(i)
(16 U.S.C. 1246(i)), by striking or national historic
and
inserting national historic, or national discovery
.