[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3755 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3755

 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route of the 
  Smoky Hill Trail, an overland trail across the Great Plains during 
 pioneer days in Kansas and Colorado, for study for potential addition 
                     to the national trails system.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 2009

 Mr. Moran of Kansas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route of the 
  Smoky Hill Trail, an overland trail across the Great Plains during 
 pioneer days in Kansas and Colorado, for study for potential addition 
                     to the national trails system.

    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 ``Smoky Hill National Historic Trail 
Study Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF TRAIL FOR STUDY.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(__) Smoky hill trail.--The Smoky Hill Trail, extending 
        approximately 640 miles along the route from Atchison and 
        Leavenworth, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado, which was an overland 
        trail route, including all of it various branches, tributaries, 
        and connecting routes to the Santa Fe Trail, across the Great 
        Plains during pioneer days beginning in 1859 and ending with 
        the arrival of the railroad in Denver in 1870.''.

SEC. 3. PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTIONS.

    (a) Alternatives To Protect Private Property.--In conducting the 
study required by the amendment made by section 2, the Secretary shall 
not consider any alternative that would--
            (1) require any private property owner to allow public 
        access (including Federal, State, or local government access) 
        to such private property;
            (2) modify any provision of Federal, State, or local law 
        with regard to public access to or use of private property;
            (3) create any liability, or have any effect on any 
        liability under any other law, of any private property owner 
        with respect to any persons injured on such private property;
            (4) modify the authority of Federal, State, or local 
        governments to regulate land use;
            (5) require the owner of any private property to 
        participate in or be associated with any addition to the 
        National Parks System;
            (6) result in the reduction in value of property held by a 
        private property owner; or
            (7) require or allow the Federal Government to acquire 
        lands, or interests therein, outside the exterior boundaries of 
        any federally administered area, except with the consent of the 
        owner thereof.
    (b) Impacts on Private Property.--The study shall include an 
analysis and documentation regarding whether each alternative proposed 
has potential or actual impact on private property located within or 
abutting the trail area.

SEC. 4. PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER NOTIFICATION.

    Not less than 30 days before the Secretary of the Interior begins 
the study required by the amendment made by section 2, the Secretary 
shall notify all private property owners whose land will be studied 
that the study will be conducted.
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