[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 276 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 276

To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the 
                     Pike National Historic Trail.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 3, 2011

   Mr. Bennet (for himself and Mr. Udall of Colorado) 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 provide for the study of the 
                     Pike National Historic Trail.

    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 ``Pike National Historic Trail Study 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. WESTERN STATES TRAIL 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) Pike national historic trail.--The Pike National 
        Historic Trail, a series of routes extending approximately 
        3,664 miles, which follows the route taken by Lt. Zebulon 
        Montgomery Pike during the 1806-1807 Pike expedition that began 
        in Fort Bellefontaine, Missouri, extended through portions of 
        the States of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, and 
        Texas, and ended in Natchitoches, Louisiana.''.
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