[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 1129 Engrossed in House (EH)]


  2d Session

                               H. R. 1129

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                                 AN ACT

  To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route from 
           Selma to Montgomery as a National Historic Trail.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1129

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend the National Trails System 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 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 in accordance with this Act, including section 7(h). The 
Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park Service, 
which shall be the lead Federal agency, shall cooperate with other 
Federal, State and local authorities to preserve historic sites along 
the route, including (but not limited to) the Edmund Pettus Bridge and 
the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 14, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.