[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 621 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 621

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

               March 24 (legislative day, March 23), 1995

 Mr. Bennett (for himself, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Brown, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. 
 Stevens, and Mr. Hatch) 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--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (36), as added by Public Law 
        103-145, as paragraph (37); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(38) The Great Western Scenic Trail, a system of trails to 
accommodate a variety of travel users in a corridor 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 entitled `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, Department of Agriculture. The trail study shall be 
conducted by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with subsection (b) and shall 
include--
            ``(A) the current (as of the time of the study) status of 
        land ownership and potential use along the designated route;
            ``(B) the estimated cost of acquisition of lands or 
        interests in land, if any; and
            ``(C) an examination of the appropriateness of motorized 
        trial use along the trail.''.
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