[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2490 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2490


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2020

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief 
     Standing Bear National Historic 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. CHIEF STANDING BEAR NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL FEASIBILITY 
              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:
            ``(xx) Chief standing bear national historic trail.--The 
        Chief Standing Bear Trail, extending approximately 550 miles 
        from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows 
        the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people 
        during Federal Indian removal, and approximately 550 miles from 
        Ponca City, Oklahoma, through Omaha, Nebraska, to Niobrara, 
        Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief 
        Standing Bear and the Ponca people.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 26, 2020.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.