[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3342 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3342

 To amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and 
 suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National 
Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments for 
                  such trail, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 2003

 Mr. Berry (for himself, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Cole, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Carson 
   of Oklahoma, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Davis of 
  Tennessee, and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and 
 suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National 
Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments for 
                  such trail, 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. REVISION OF FEASIBILITY AND SUITABILITY STUDY OF TRAIL OF 
              TEARS NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.

    Section 5(a)(16) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 
1244(a)(16)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subsections'' and 
        inserting ``sections''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(C) Not later than one complete fiscal year after the date of the 
enactment of this subparagraph, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
submit to Congress a study regarding the feasibility and suitability of 
designating, as additional components of the Trail of Tears National 
Historic Trail, the Benge and Belle routes by which southeastern Indian 
tribes were removed to present-day Oklahoma. Upon completion of the 
study, if the Secretary determines that the routes are a feasible and 
suitable addition to the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, the 
Secretary shall designate the routes as components of the Trail of 
Tears National Historic Trail. The Secretary shall publish notice of 
the designation in the Federal Register.''.
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