[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1838 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1838

 To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for a study of El 
 Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (The Royal Road of the Interior Lands), 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 1993

 Mr. Richardson (for himself and Mr. Coleman) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for a study of El 
 Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (The Royal Road of the Interior Lands), 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro 
Study Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the primary route 
        for nearly 300 years that was used by clergy, colonists, 
        soldiers, Indians, officials and trade caravans between Mexico 
        and New Mexico;
            (2) from the Spanish colonial period (1598-1821), through 
        the Mexican national period (1821-1848), and through part of 
        the United States Territorial period (1848-1912), El Camino 
        Real de Tierra Adentro extended 1,800 miles from Mexico City 
        through Chihuahua City, El Paso del Norte, and on to Santa Fe 
        in northern New Mexico;
            (3) the road was the first to be developed by Europeans in 
        what is now the United States and for a time was one of the 
        longest roads in North America; and
            (4) El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, until the arrival of 
        the railroad in the 1880s, witnessed and stimulated great 
        multicultural exchanges and the evolution of nations, peoples, 
        and cultures.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF El CAMINO REAL DE TIERRA ADENTRO IN THE UNITED 
              STATES.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding the following new paragraph at the end thereof:
            ``( ) El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the approximately 
        350 mile route extending from the international border at El 
        Paso, Texas, across to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The study shall 
        (A) examine changing routes within the general corridor, (B) 
        examine major connecting branch routes, and (C) give due 
        consideration to alternative name designations.''.

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