[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3085 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3085

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2005

  Mr. Wamp (for himself, Mr. Berry, Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. 
   Boren, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Whitfield, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. 
Snyder, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. Gingrey, Mr. Duncan, Mr. 
Davis of Tennessee, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Ford, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Lucas, and 
Mr. Cole of Oklahoma) 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, 
 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 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 Bell routes, the land components of the 
designated water routes in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, 
the routes from the collection forts in Alabama, Georgia, North 
Carolina, and Tennessee to the emigration depots, and related 
campgrounds located along such routes and in such land components, by 
which the Cherokee Nation was removed to Oklahoma. Upon completion of 
the study, if the Secretary determines that such routes, land 
components, and campgrounds are a feasible and suitable addition to the 
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, the Secretary shall designate 
such routes, land components, and campgrounds 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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