[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3085 Referred in Senate (RFS)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3085


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2006

                                Received

               August 4 (legislative day, August 3), 2006

    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 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 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).''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 17, 2006.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.