Buckeye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6142 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6142

To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the 
   Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the 
   Buckeye Trail as a national scenic trail, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2021

    Mr. Ryan (for himself and Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio) 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 
   Buckeye Trail as a 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 ``Buckeye National Scenic Trail 
Feasibility Study Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. BUCKEYE NATIONAL SCENIC 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:
            ``(48) Buckeye trail.--The Buckeye Trail, a system of 
        trails creating a loop extending approximately 1,454 miles from 
        Lake Erie to the Ohio River, through the farmland of northwest 
        Ohio, the hills of Appalachia, the Black Hand sandstone cliffs 
        of the Hocking Hills region, and the Bluegrass region of 
        southwest Ohio.''.
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