To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Lincoln National Historic Trail as a component of the National Trails System.

Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the Lincoln National Historic Trail (a trail of approximately 350 miles extending from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River with an extension of the water route down the River to connect with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail near Wood River, Illinois, and with an extension of such route down the Sangamon River from Beardstown to Springfield) as a component of the National Trails System.

[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 4187 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4187

   To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Lincoln 
 National Historic Trail as a component of the National Trails System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 25, 1996

  Mr. Weller introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Lincoln 
 National Historic Trail as a component of the National Trails System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.

    Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) 
is amended by adding the following new paragraph at the end thereof:
            ``(  ) The Lincoln National Historic Trail, a trail of 
        approximately 350 miles extending from Lake Michigan to the 
        Mississippi River, as generally described in `The Proposal' in 
        the Department of the Interior report entitled `Illinois Trail, 
        National Trail Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment', 
        dated September 1987, with an extension of the water route down 
        the Mississippi River to connect with the Lewis and Clark 
        National Historic Trail near Wood River, Illinois, and with an 
        extension of the water route down the Sangamon River from 
        Beardstown to Springfield. A map generally depicting the route 
        shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
        Office of the Director of the National Park Service, 
        Washington, District of Columbia. The trail shall be 
        administered by the Secretary of the Interior.''.
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