[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2966 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2966

 To amend the National Trails Systems Act to designate the route from 
           Selma to Montgomery as a National Historic Trail.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

  Mr. Lewis of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Hilliard, Ms. McKinney, Mr. 
   Clyburn, Mr. Towns, Mr. Stokes, Mr. Hastings, Mr. McCloskey, Mr. 
Foglietta, Mr. Fazio, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Dellums, Mr. Clay, Mr. Frank 
of Massachusetts, Mr. Coyne, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Sanders, 
 Mr. Richardson, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Kildee, Mrs. Clayton, Mr. Bishop, Mr. 
 Kennedy, Mrs. Mink, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Frost, Mr. Bonior, Mr. Neal of 
   North Carolina, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Evans, Mr. Wheat, Mr. Barrett of 
  Wisconsin, Miss Collins of Michigan, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Watt, Mrs. 
   Morella, and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Trails Systems Act to designate the route from 
           Selma to Montgomery as a National Historic Trail.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5(a) of 
the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
    ``(    ) The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, 
consisting of 54 miles of city streets and United States Highway 80 
from Brown Chapel to A.M.E. Church in Selma to the State Capitol 
Building in Montgomery, Alabama, traveled by voting rights advocates 
during March 1965 to dramatize the need for voting rights legislation, 
as generally described in the report of the Secretary of the Interior 
prepared pursuant to subsection (b) of this section entitled `Selma to 
Montgomery' and dated April 1993. Maps depicting the route shall be on 
file and available for public inspection in the Office of the National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior. The trail shall be 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior. In the administration of 
the trail, the Secretary shall cooperate with State and local 
authorities to preserve historic sites, including (but not limited to) 
the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Brown Chapel AME Church.''.

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