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[H.R. 3085 Reported in House (RH)]







                                                 Union Calendar No. 309
109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3085

                          [Report No. 109-549]

 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

                             July 10, 2006

            Additional sponsors: Mr. Linder and Mr. Norwood

                             July 10, 2006

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 
                               28, 2005]

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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 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).''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 309

109th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3085

                          [Report No. 109-549]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 10, 2006

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed