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 as a component of the National Trails System.

Designates an extension of such water route down the Sangamon River from Beardstown to Springfield for study as an addition to such System.

[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 1513 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1513

   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

                              May 1, 1997

Mr. Weller (for himself, Mr. Lipinski, and Mr. Poshard) 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. 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.''.

SEC. 2. STUDY TRAIL.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding the following new paragraph at the end thereof:
            ``(  ) An extension of the water route Lincoln National 
        Historic Trail, down the Sangamon River from Beardstown to 
        Springfield.''.
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