To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending 550 miles from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people during federal Indian removal, and 550 miles from Ponca City through Omaha to Niobrara, Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2490 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2490

To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief 
     Standing Bear National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 2, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief 
     Standing Bear 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. CHIEF STANDING BEAR NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL FEASIBILITY 
              STUDY.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(46) Chief standing bear national historic trail.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Chief Standing Bear Trail, 
                extending approximately 550 miles from Niobrara, 
                Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows the 
                route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people 
                during Federal Indian removal, and approximately 550 
                miles from Ponca City, Oklahoma, through Omaha, 
                Nebraska, to Niobrara, Nebraska, which follows the 
                return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca 
                people, as generally depicted on the map entitled 
                `Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail 
                Feasibility Study', numbered 903/125,630, and dated 
                November 2014.
                    ``(B) Availability of map.--The map described in 
                subparagraph (A) shall be on file and available for 
                public inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
                Department of the Interior.
                    ``(C) Components.--The feasibility study conducted 
                under subparagraph (A) shall include a determination on 
                whether the Chief Standing Bear Trail meets the 
                criteria described in subsection (b) for designation as 
                a national historic trail.
                    ``(D) Considerations.--In conducting the 
                feasibility study under subparagraph (A), the Secretary 
                of the Interior shall consider input from owners of 
                private land within or adjacent to the study area.''.
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