[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 17 (Thursday, January 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S367-S368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3089. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, and Ms. Baldwin) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2953 
proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to provide for the 
modernization of the energy policy of the United States, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 44___. NORTH COUNTRY NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL.

       (a) 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

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       (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.''.
       (b) No Condemnation.--Section 5(a)(8) of the National 
     Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)(8)) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following: ``No land or interest in land 
     outside of the exterior boundary of any Federally 
     administered area may be acquired by the Federal Government 
     for the trail by condemnation.''.
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