[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1652 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1652

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Great Western 
  Trail for potential addition to the National Trails System, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            November 10 (legislative day, November 2), 1993

  Mr. Bennett introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Great Western 
  Trail for potential addition to the National Trails System, 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. DESIGNATION OF THE GREAT WESTERN TRAIL AS A STUDY TRAIL.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(36) The Great Western Scenic Trail, a system of trails to 
accommodate a variety of travel users in a corridor of approximately 
3,100 miles in length extending from the Arizona-Mexico border to the 
Idaho-Montana-Canada border, following the approximate route depicted 
on the map identified as `Great Western Trail Corridor, 1988', which 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of 
the Chief of the Forest Service, United States Department of 
Agriculture. The trail study shall be conducted by the Forest Service, 
in consultation with the Department of the Interior. The Secretary of 
Agriculture shall study the appropriateness of motorized trail use 
along the Great Western Scenic Trail.''.

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