[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5053 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5053

 To amend the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and Clark 
National Historic Trail to include additional sites associated with the 
 preparation or return phase of the expedition, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2006

   Ms. Hart 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 extend the Lewis and Clark 
National Historic Trail to include additional sites associated with the 
 preparation or return phase of the expedition, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lewis and Clark National Historic 
Trail Extension Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.

    Section 5(a)(6) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 
1244(a)(6)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``The'' and 
        inserting ``(A) The''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(B) In addition to the route designated in subparagraph (A), the 
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail shall be extended to include 
the route followed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, whether 
independently or together, in the preparation phase of the expedition 
starting at Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, and 
traveling to Wood River, Illinois, and in the return phase of the 
expedition from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Washington, DC. The extended 
route shall include designated Lewis and Clark sites in Virginia, the 
District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, 
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Illinois. The Secretary shall 
complete a suitability and feasibility study to include the extended 
route within one year from the date funds are first made available for 
that purpose.''.
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