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[H.R. 37 Reported in Senate (RS)]






                                                       Calendar No. 576
107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 H. R. 37

                          [Report No. 107-259]


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2001

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

                           September 9, 2002

              Reported by Mr. Bingaman, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and 
   suitability studies of 4 national historic trails and provide for 
                   possible additions to such trails.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. REVISION OF FEASIBILITY AND SUITABILITY STUDIES OF 
              EXISTING NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The National Trails System Act is amended by inserting 
after section 5 (16 U.S.C. 1244) the following new section:</DELETED>

<DELETED>``SEC. 5A. REVISION OF FEASIBILITY AND SUITABILITY STUDIES OF 
              EXISTING TRAILS FOR POSSIBLE TRAIL EXPANSION.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    ``(a) In General.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) Definitions.--In this section:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) Route.--The term `route' includes a 
                trail segment commonly known as a cutoff.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Shared route.--The term `shared 
                route' means a route that was a segment of more than 
                one historic trail, including a route shared with an 
                existing national historic trail.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Study requirements and objectives.--The 
        study requirements and objectives specified in section 5(b) 
        shall apply to a study required by this section. The study 
        shall also assess the effect that designation of the studied 
        route as a component of an existing national scenic trail or 
        national historic trail may have on private property along the 
        proposed route.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(3) Completion and submission of study.--A study 
        listed in this section shall be completed and submitted to the 
        Congress not later than three complete fiscal years from the 
        date of the enactment of this section, or from the date of the 
        enactment of the addition of the study to this section, 
        whichever is later.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(4) Implementation of study results.--Upon 
        completion of a study required by this section, if the 
        Secretary conducting the study determines that a studied route 
        is a feasible and suitable addition to the existing national 
        scenic trail or national historic trail that was the subject of 
        the study, the Secretary shall designate the route as a 
        component of that national scenic trail or national historic 
        trail. The Secretary shall publish notice of the designation in 
        the Federal Register.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(b) Oregon National Historic Trail.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
        Interior shall undertake a study of the routes of the Oregon 
        Trail listed in paragraph (2) and generally depicted on the map 
        entitled `Western Emigrant Trails 1830/1870' and dated 1991/
        1993, and of such shared routes that the Secretary considers 
        appropriate, to determine the feasibility and suitability of 
        designation of one or more of the routes as components of the 
        Oregon National Historic Trail.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
        under paragraph (1) are the following:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) Whitman Mission route.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Upper Columbia River.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) Cowlitz River route.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(D) Meek cutoff.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(E) Free Emigrant Road.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(F) North Alternate Oregon 
                Trail.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(G) Goodale's cutoff.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(H) North Side alternate 
                route.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(I) Cutoff to Barlow Road.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(J) Naches Pass Trail.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(c) Pony Express National Historic Trail.--The Secretary 
of the Interior shall undertake a study of the approximately 20-mile 
southern alternative route of the Pony Express Trail from Wathena, 
Kansas, to Troy, Kansas, and such shared routes that the Secretary 
considers appropriate, to determine the feasibility and suitability of 
designation of one or more of the routes as components of the Pony 
Express National Historic Trail.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(d) California National Historic Trail.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
        Interior shall undertake a study of the Missouri Valley, 
        central, and western routes of the California Trail listed in 
        paragraph (2) and generally depicted on the map entitled 
        `Western Emigrant Trails 1830/1870' and dated 1991/1993, and of 
        such shared Missouri Valley, central, and western routes that 
        the Secretary considers appropriate, to determine the 
        feasibility and suitability of designation of one or more of 
        the routes as components of the California National Historic 
        Trail.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
        under paragraph (1) are the following:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) Missouri valley routes.--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) Blue Mills-Independence 
                        Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) Westport Landing 
                        Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iii) Westport-Lawrence 
                        Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iv) Fort Leavenworth-Blue River 
                        route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(v) Road to Amazonia.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vi) Union Ferry 
                        Route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vii) Old Wyoming-Nebraska City 
                        cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(viii) Lower Plattsmouth 
                        Route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ix) Lower Bellevue 
                        Route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(x) Woodbury cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xi) Blue Ridge 
                        cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xii) Westport Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xiii) Gum Springs-Fort 
                        Leavenworth route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xiv) Atchison/Independence 
                        Creek routes.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xv) Fort Leavenworth-Kansas 
                        River route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xvi) Nebraska City cutoff 
                        routes.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xvii) Minersville-Nebraska City 
                        Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xviii) Upper Plattsmouth 
                        route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xix) Upper Bellevue 
                        route.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Central routes.--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) Cherokee Trail, including 
                        splits.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) Weber Canyon route of 
                        Hastings cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iii) Bishop Creek 
                        cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iv) McAuley cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(v) Diamond Springs 
                        cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vi) Secret Pass.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vii) Greenhorn 
                        cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(viii) Central Overland 
                        Trail.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) Western routes.--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) Bidwell-Bartleson 
                        route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) Georgetown/Dagget Pass 
                        Trail.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iii) Big Trees Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iv) Grizzly Flat 
                        cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(v) Nevada City Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vi) Yreka Trail.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vii) Henness Pass 
                        route.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(viii) Johnson cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ix) Luther Pass 
                        Trail.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(x) Volcano Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xi) Sacramento-Coloma Wagon 
                        Road.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xii) Burnett cutoff.</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xiii) Placer County Road to 
                        Auburn.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(e) Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
        Interior shall undertake a study of the routes of the Morman 
        Pioneer Trail listed in paragraph (2) and generally depicted on 
        the map entitled `Western Emigrant Trails 1830/1870' and dated 
        1991/1993, and of such shared routes that the Secretary 
        considers appropriate, to determine the feasibility and 
        suitability of designation of one or more of the routes as 
        components of the Mormon Pioneer National Historic 
        Trail.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
        under paragraph (1) are the following:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) 1846 Subsequent routes A and B 
                (Lucas and Clarke Counties, Iowa).</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) 1856-57 Handcart route (Iowa City to 
                Council Bluffs)</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) Keokuk route (Iowa).</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(D) 1847 Alternative Elkhorn and Loup 
                River Crossings in Nebraska.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(E) Fort Leavenworth Road; Ox Bow route 
                and alternates in Kansas and Missouri (Oregon and 
                California Trail routes used by Mormon 
                emigrants).</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(F) 1850 Golden Pass Road in 
                Utah.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(f) Shared California and Oregon Trail Routes.--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
        Interior shall undertake a study of the shared routes of the 
        California Trail and Oregon Trail listed in paragraph (2) and 
        generally depicted on the map entitled `Western Emigrant Trails 
        1830/1870' and dated 1991/1993, and of such other shared routes 
        that the Secretary considers appropriate, to determine the 
        feasibility and suitability of designation of one or more of 
        the routes as shared components of the California National 
        Historic Trail and the Oregon National Historic 
        Trail.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
        under paragraph (1) are the following:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) St. Joe Road.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Council Bluffs Road.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) Sublette cutoff.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(D) Applegate route.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(E) Old Fort Kearny Road (Oxbow 
                Trail).</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(F) Childs cutoff.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(G) Raft River to 
                Applegate.''.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. REVISION OF FEASIBILITY AND SUITABILITY STUDIES OF EXISTING 
              NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS.

    Section 5 of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244) is 
amended by inserting the following new subsection(g):
    ``(g) The Secretary shall revise the feasibility and suitability 
studies for certain national trails for consideration of possible 
additions to the trails.
            ``(1) In general.--
                    ``(A) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                            ``(i) Route.--The term `route' includes a 
                        trail segment common known as a cutoff.
                            ``(ii) Shared route.--The term `shared' 
                        route means a route that was a segment of more 
                        than one historic trail, including a route 
                        shared with an existing national historic 
                        trail.
                    ``(B) Study requirements and objectives.--The study 
                requirements and objectives specified in subsection (b) 
                shall apply to a study required by this subsection.
                    ``(C) Completion and submission of study.--A study 
                listed in this subsection shall be completed and 
                submitted to the Congress not later than three complete 
                fiscal years from the date of the enactment of this 
                subsection, or from the date of the enactment of the 
                addition of the study to this subsection, whichever is 
                later.
            ``(2) Oregon national historic trail.--
                    ``(A) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
                Interior shall undertake a study of the routes of the 
                Oregon Trail listed in subparagraph (B) and generally 
                depicted on the map entitled `Western Emigrant Trails 
                1830/1870' and dated 1991/1993, and of such other 
                routes of the Oregon Trail that the Secretary considers 
                appropriate, to determine the feasibility and 
                suitability of designation of one or more of the routes 
                as components of the Oregon National Historic Trail.
                    ``(B) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
                under subparagraph (A) shall include the following:
                            ``(i) Whitman Mission route.
                            ``(ii) Upper Columbia River.
                            ``(iii) Cowlitz River route.
                            ``(iv) Meek cutoff.
                            ``(v) Free Emigrant Road.
                            ``(vi) North Alternate Oregon Trail.
                            ``(vii) Goodale's cutoff.
                            ``(viii) North Side alternate route.
                            ``(ix) Cutoff to Barlow Road.
                            ``(x) Naches Pass Trail.
            ``(3) Pony express national historic trail.--The Secretary 
        of the Interior shall undertake a study of the approximately 
        20-mile southern alternative route of the Pony Express Trail 
        from Wathena, Kansas, to Troy, Kansas, and such other routes of 
        the Pony Express Trail that the Secretary considers 
        appropriate, to determine the feasibility and suitability of 
        designation of one or more of the routes as components of the 
        Pony Express National Historic Trail.
            ``(4) California national historic trail.--
                    ``(A) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
                Interior shall undertake a study of the Missouri 
                Valley, central, and western routes of the California 
                Trail listed in subparagraph (B) and generally depicted 
                on the map entitled `Western Emigrant Trails 1830/1870' 
                and dated 1991/1993, and of such other and shared 
                Missouri Valley, central, and western routes that the 
                Secretary considers appropriate, to determine the 
                feasibility and suitability of designation of one or 
                more of the routes as components of the California 
                National Historic Trail.
                    ``(B) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
                under subparagraph (A) shall include the following:
                                    ``(i) Missouri valley routes.--
                                    ``(I) Blue Mills-Independence Road.
                                    ``(II) Westport Landing Road.
                                    ``(III) Westport-Lawrence Road.
                                    ``(IV) Fort Leavenworth-Blue River 
                                route.
                                    ``(V) Road to Amazonia.
                                    ``(VI) Union Ferry Route.
                                    ``(VII) Old Wyoming-Nebraska City 
                                cutoff.
                                    ``(VIII) Lower Plattsmouth Route.
                                    ``(IX) Lower Bellevue Route.
                                    ``(X) Woodbury cutoff.
                                    ``(XI) Blue Ridge cutoff.
                                    ``(XII) Westport Road.
                                    ``(XIII) Gum Springs-Fort 
                                Leavenworth route.
                                    ``(XIV) Atchison/Independence Creek 
                                routes.
                                    ``(XV) Fort Leavenworth-Kansas 
                                River route.
                                    ``(XVI) Nebraska City cutoff 
                                routes.
                                    ``(XVII) Minersville-Nebraska City 
                                Road.
                                    ``(XVIII) Upper Plattsmouth route.
                                    ``(XIX) Upper Bellevue route.
                            ``(ii) Central routes.--
                                    ``(I) Cherokee Trail, including 
                                splits.
                                    ``(II) Weber Canyon route of 
                                Hastings cutoff.
                                    ``(III) Bishop Creek cutoff.
                                    ``(IV) McAuley cutoff.
                                    ``(V) Diamond Springs cutoff.
                                    ``(VI) Secret Pass.
                                    ``(VII) Greenhorn cutoff.
                                    ``(VIII) Central Overland Trail.
                            ``(iii) Western routes.--
                                    ``(I) Bidwell-Bartleson route.
                                    ``(II) Georgetown/Dagget Pass 
                                Trail.
                                    ``(III) Big Trees Road.
                                    ``(IV) Grizzly Flat cutoff.
                                    ``(V) Nevada City Road.
                                    ``(VI) Yreka Trail.
                                    ``(VII) Henness Pass route.
                                    ``(VIII) Johnson cutoff.
                                    ``(IX) Luther Pass Trail.
                                    ``(X) Volcano Road.
                                    ``(XI) Sacramento-Coloma Wagon 
                                Road.
                                    ``(XII) Burnett cutoff.
                                    ``(XIII) Placer County Road to 
                                Auburn.
            ``(5) Mormon pioneer national historic trail.--
                    ``(A) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
                Interior shall undertake a study of the routes of the 
                Mormon Pioneer Trail listed in subparagraph (B) and 
                generally depicted on the map entitled `Western 
                Emigrant Trails 1830/1870' and dated 1991/1993, and of 
such other routes of the Mormon Pioneer Trail that the Secretary 
considers appropriate, to determine the feasibility and suitability of 
designation of one or more of the routes as components of the Mormon 
Pioneer National Historic Trail.
                    ``(B) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
                under subparagraph (A) shall include the following:
                            ``(i) 1846 Subsequent routes A and B (Lucas 
                        and Clarke Counties, Iowa).
                            ``(ii) 1856-57 Handcart route (Iowa City to 
                        Council Bluffs)
                            ``(iii) Keokuk route (Iowa).
                            ``(iv) 1847 Alternative Elkhorn and Loup 
                        River Crossings in Nebraska.
                            ``(v) Fort Leavenworth Road; Ox Bow route 
                        and alternates in Kansas and Missouri (Oregon 
                        and California Trail routes used by Mormon 
                        emigrants).
                            ``(vi) 1850 Golden Pass Road in Utah.
            ``(6) Shared california and oregon trail routes.--
                    ``(A) Study required.--The Secretary of the 
                Interior shall undertake a study of the shared routes 
                of the California Trail and Oregon Trail listed in 
                subparagraph (B) and generally depicted on the map 
                entitled `Western Emigrant Trails 1830/1870' and dated 
                1991/1993, and of such other shared routes that the 
                Secretary considers appropriate, to determine the 
                feasibility and suitability of designation of one or 
                more of the routes as shared components of the 
                California National Historic Trail and the Oregon 
                National Historic Trail.
                    ``(B) Covered routes.--The routes to be studied 
                under subparagraph (A) shall include the following:
                            ``(i) St. Joe Road.
                            ``(ii) Council Bluffs Road.
                            ``(iii) Sublette cutoff.
                            ``(iv) Applegate route.
                            ``(v) Old Fort Kearny Road (Oxbow Trail).
                            ``(vi) Childs cutoff.
                            ``(vii) Raft River to Applegate.''
    Passed the House of Representatives June 6, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.




                                                       Calendar No. 576

107th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                H. R. 37

                          [Report No. 107-259]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

 To amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and 
   suitability studies of 4 national historic trails and provide for 
                   possible additions to such trails.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 9, 2002

                       Reported with an amendment