[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1084 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1084

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the routes of the 
Shawnee Cattle Trail, the oldest of the major Texas Cattle Trails, for 
  study for potential addition to the National Trails System, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 26, 2011

Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Roberts) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the routes of the 
Shawnee Cattle Trail, the oldest of the major Texas Cattle Trails, for 
  study for potential addition to the National Trails System, 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 ``Shawnee Cattle 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:
            ``(46) Shawnee cattle trail.--The Shawnee Cattle Trail, 
        consisting of three main branches, East, Middle, and West, and 
        several smaller connecting trails extending from Texas to 
        Missouri, and later Kansas, which is considered the oldest of 
        the major Texas Cattle Trails, used from the 1840s until 
        1872.''.

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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