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[S. 3519 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.3519

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two


                                 An Act


 
  To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Butterfield 
        Overland 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. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Butterfield Overland National 
Historic Trail Designation Act''.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND NATIONAL HISTORIC 
TRAIL.
    Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
        ``(31) Butterfield overland national historic trail.--
            ``(A) In general.--The Butterfield Overland National 
        Historic Trail, a trail of approximately 3,292 miles following 
        the route operated by the Butterfield Overland Mail Company, 
        known as the `Ox-Bow Route', to transport mail and passengers 
        between the eastern termini of St. Louis, Missouri, and 
        Memphis, Tennessee, and extending westward through the States 
        of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, to the 
        western terminus of San Francisco, California, as generally 
        depicted on the maps numbered 1 through 15, entitled `Study 
        Route Maps', and contained in the report prepared by the 
        National Park Service entitled `Butterfield Overland Trail 
        National Historical Trail Special Resource Study' and dated May 
        2018.
            ``(B) Maps.--The maps described in subparagraph (A) shall 
        be on file and available for public inspection in the 
        appropriate offices of the National Park Service.
            ``(C) Administration.--The trail established by 
        subparagraph (A) shall be administered by the Secretary of the 
        Interior.
            ``(D) Land acquisition.--The United States shall not 
        acquire for the trail established by subparagraph (A) any land 
        or interest in land outside of the exterior boundary of any 
        federally administered area without the consent of the owner of 
        the land or interest in land.
            ``(E) No buffer zone created.--
                ``(i) In general.--Nothing in this paragraph, the 
            acquisition of land or an interest in land authorized by 
            this paragraph, or any management plan for the Butterfield 
            Overland National Historic Trail creates a buffer zone 
            outside of the Butterfield Overland National Historic 
            Trail.
                ``(ii) Outside activities.--The fact that an activity 
            or use on land outside the Butterfield Overland National 
            Historic Trail can be seen, heard, or detected from land or 
            an interest in land acquired for the Butterfield Overland 
            National Historic Trail shall not preclude, limit, control, 
            regulate, or determine the conduct or management of the 
            activity or use.
            ``(F) Effect on energy development, production, or 
        transmission.--Nothing in this paragraph, the acquisition of 
        land or an interest in land authorized by this paragraph, or 
        any management plan for the Butterfield Overland National 
        Historic Trail shall prohibit, hinder, or disrupt the 
        development, production, or transmission of energy.
            ``(G) No eminent domain or condemnation.--In carrying out 
        this paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior may not use 
        eminent domain or condemnation.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.