[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2018 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2018
To amend the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and Clark
National Historic Trail to include additional sites associated with the
preparation or return phase of the expedition, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 22, 2004
Mr. Bunning introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and Clark
National Historic Trail to include additional sites associated with the
preparation or return phase of the expedition, 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 ``Lewis and Clark National Historic
Trail Extension Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.
Section 5(a)(6) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C.
1244(a)(6)) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ``The'' and
inserting ``(A) The''; and
(2) by adding the following new subparagraph:
``(B) In addition to the route designated in subparagraph (A), the
trail shall be extended to include the route followed by Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark, whether independently or together, in the
preparation phase of the expedition starting at Monticello, located
near Charlottesville, Virginia, and traveling to Wood River, Illinois,
and in the return phase of the expedition from Saint Louis, Missouri,
to Washington, DC. The extended route shall include designated Lewis
and Clark sites in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Indiana, and Illinois. The Secretary shall complete a suitability and
feasibility study to include the extended route within three years from
the date funds are first made available for that purpose.''.
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