[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1026 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1026

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic 
Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to 
   connect with the Appalachian National Scenic 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``North Country National Scenic Trail 
Route Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. ROUTE ADJUSTMENT.

    Section 5(a)(8) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 
1244(a)(8)) is amended in the first sentence--
            (1) by striking ``thirty-two hundred miles, extending from 
        eastern New York State'' and inserting ``4,600 miles, extending 
        from the Appalachian Trail in Vermont''; and
            (2) by striking ``Proposed North Country Trail'' and all 
        that follows through ``June 1975.'' and inserting ```North 
        Country National Scenic Trail, Authorized Route', dated 
        February 2014, and numbered 649/116870.''.

SEC. 3. LAND ACQUISITION.

    Neither the Secretary of Agriculture nor the Secretary of the 
Interior may acquire for the North Country National Scenic Trail land 
in Minnesota or Vermont that was obtained through condemnation by a 
State or local government.

SEC. 4. ENERGY.

    Nothing in the amendments made by this Act that change the 
authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in 
Minnesota or Vermont shall prohibit the development, production, 
conveyance, or transmission of energy in those States, with reasonable 
efforts made to preserve the nature and purpose of the North Country 
National Scenic Trail, and to mitigate any damage to that trail and its 
associated resources caused by such activities.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 5, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 1026

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

  To revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic 
Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to 
   connect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and for other 
                               purposes.