[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1814 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1814


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 24, 2001

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Metacomet-
Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail extending through western Massachusetts and 
 central Connecticut for study for potential addition to the National 
                             Trails System.

    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 ``Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett 
Trail Study Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF METACOMET-MONADNOCK-MATTABESETT TRAIL FOR STUDY 
              FOR POTENTIAL ADDITION TO THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM.

    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:
    ``(____) Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail.--The Metacomet-
Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail, a system of trails and potential trails 
extending southward approximately 180 miles through western 
Massachusetts on the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, across central 
Connecticut on the Metacomet Trail and the Mattabesett Trail, and 
ending at Long Island Sound.''.

SEC. 3. EXPEDITED REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Notwithstanding the fourth sentence of section 5(b) of the National 
Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(b)), the Secretary of the Interior 
shall submit the study required by the amendment made by section 2 to 
Congress not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 23, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.