North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act

North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act

This bill amends the National Trails System Act to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail to extend it to the Appalachian Trail in Vermont and to modify the route in northeastern Minnesota.

The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior may not acquire for the trail land in Minnesota or Vermont that was obtained by a state or local government through condemnation.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1026 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1026

  To revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic 
Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to 
   connect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2017

   Mr. Nolan (for himself, Mr. Welch, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Ellison, Mr. 
Peterson, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Walz, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Kelly 
of Pennsylvania, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Beyer, Mr. 
 Tonko, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Faso, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Sensenbrenner, and Mr. 
   Paulsen) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic 
Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to 
   connect with the Appalachian National Scenic 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 ``North Country National Scenic Trail 
Route Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. 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
            (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.''.
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