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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6366 

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the routes of the 

Shawnee Cattle Trail, the oldest of the major Texas Cattle Trails, for 

study for potential addition to the National Trails System, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 

Mr. MORAN of Kansas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 

routes of the Shawnee Cattle Trail, the oldest of the 

major Texas Cattle Trails, for study for potential addition to the National Trails System, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Shawnee Cattle Trail 

5 Study Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF TRAIL FOR STUDY. 

2 Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 

3 U.S.C. 1244(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol4 lowing: 

5 ‘‘(ll) SHAWNEE CATTLE TRAIL.—The Shaw6 nee Cattle Trail, consisting of three main branches, 

7 East, Middle, and West, and several smaller con8 necting trails extending from Texas to Missouri, and 

9 later Kansas, which is considered the oldest of the 

10 major Texas Cattle Trails, used from the 1840s 

11 until 1872.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTIONS. 

13 (a) ALTERNATIVES TO PROTECT PRIVATE PROP14 ERTY.—In conducting the study required by the amend15 ment made by section 2, the Secretary shall not consider 

16 any alternative that would— 

17 (1) require any private property owner to allow 

18 public access (including Federal, State, or local gov19 ernment access) to such private property; 

20 (2) modify any provision of Federal, State, or 

21 local law with regard to public access to or use of 

22 private property; 

23 (3) create any liability, or have any effect on 

24 any liability under any other law, of any private 

25 property owner with respect to any persons injured 

26 on such private property; 


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1 (4) modify the authority of Federal, State, or 

2 local governments to regulate land use; 

3 (5) require the owner of any private property to 

4 participate in or be associated with any addition to 

5 the National Parks System; 

6 (6) result in the reduction in value of property 

7 held by a private property owner; or 

8 (7) require or allow the Federal Government to 

9 acquire lands, or interests therein, outside the exte10 rior boundaries of any federally administered area, 

11 except with the consent of the owner thereof. 

12 (b) IMPACTS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.—The study 

13 shall include an analysis and documentation regarding 

14 whether each alternative proposed has potential or actual 

15 impact on private property located within or abutting the 

16 trail area. 

17 SEC. 4. PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER NOTIFICATION. 

18 Not less than 30 days before the Secretary of the In19 terior begins the study required by the amendment made 

20 by section 2, the Secretary shall notify all private property 

21 owners whose land will be studied that the study will be 

22 conducted. 

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