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Union Calendar No. 159 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1388 

[Report No. 110–250] 

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Star-Spangled 

Banner Trail in the States of Maryland and Virginia and the District 

of Columbia as a National Historic Trail. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 7, 2007 

Mr. SARBANES (for himself, Mr. HOYER, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. WYNN, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, and Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Natural Resources 

JULY 23, 2007 

Additional sponsor: Mr. CUMMINGS

JULY 23, 2007 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 7, 2007] 

A BILL 

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 

Star-Spangled Banner Trail in the States of Maryland 

and Virginia and the District of Columbia as a National 

Historic Trail. 


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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 ‘‘Star-Spangled Banner 

5 National Historic Trail Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF TRAIL. 

7 Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 

8 U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol9 lowing: 

10 ‘‘(ll) STAR-SPANGLED BANNER NATIONAL HIS11 TORIC TRAIL.— 

12 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Star-Spangled 

13 Banner National Historic Trail, a trail con14 sisting of water and overland routes totaling ap15 proximately 290 miles, extending from Tangier 

16 Island, Virginia, through southern Maryland, the 

17 District of Columbia, and northern Virginia, in 

18 the Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent River, Potomac 

19 River, and north to the Patapsco River, and 

20 Baltimore, Maryland, commemorating the 

21 Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812 (in22 cluding the British invasion of Washington, Dis23 trict of Columbia, and its associated feints, and 

24 the Battle of Baltimore in summer 1814), as 

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1 gled Banner National Historic Trail’, numbered 

2 T02/80,000, and dated June 2007. 

3 ‘‘(B) MAP.—The map referred to in sub4 paragraph (A) shall be maintained on file and 

5 available for public inspection in the appro6 priate offices of the National Park Service. 

7 ‘‘(C) ADMINISTRATION.—Subject to sub8 paragraph (E)(ii), the trail shall be adminis9 tered by the Secretary of the Interior. 

10 ‘‘(D) LAND ACQUISITION.—No land or in11 terest in land outside the exterior boundaries of 

12 any federally administered area may be acquired 

13 by the United States for the trail except with the 

14 consent of the owner of the land or interest in 

15 land. 

16 ‘‘(E) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—The Sec17 retary of the Interior shall— 

18 ‘‘(i) encourage communities, owners of 

19 land along the trail, and volunteer trail 

20 groups to participate in the planning, de21 velopment, and maintenance of the trail; 

22 and 

23 ‘‘(ii) consult with other affected land24 owners and Federal, State, and local agen25 cies in the administration of the trail. 


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1 ‘‘(F) INTERPRETATION AND ASSISTANCE.— 

2 Subject to the availability of appropriations, the 

3 Secretary of the Interior may provide, to State 

4 and local governments and nonprofit organiza5 tions, interpretive programs and services and 

6 technical assistance for use in— 

7 ‘‘(i) carrying out preservation and de8 velopment of the trail; and 

9 ‘‘(ii) providing education relating to 

10 the War of 1812 along the trail.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 159 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1388 

[Report No. 110

–250] 

A BILL 

To amend the National Trails System Act to desof Columbia as a National Historic Trail. States of Maryland and Virginia and the District ignate the Star-Spangled Banner Trail in the 

JULY 23, 2007 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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