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[H.R. 3085 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3085

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act



 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, land 
 components, and campgrounds associated with that 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 subparagraphs:
            ``(C) Not later than 6 months after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
        complete the remaining criteria and submit to Congress a study 
        regarding the feasibility and suitability of designating, as 
        additional components of the Trail of Tears National Historic 
        Trail, the following routes and land components by which the 
        Cherokee Nation was removed to Oklahoma:
                ``(i) The Benge and Bell routes.
                ``(ii) The land components of the designated water 
            routes in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
                ``(iii) The routes from the collection forts in 
            Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee to the 
            emigration depots.
                ``(iv) The related campgrounds located along the routes 
            and land components described in clauses (i) through (iii).
            ``(D) No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated 
        to carry out subparagraph (C). The Secretary may accept 
        donations for the Trail from private, nonprofit, or tribal 
        organizations.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.