‘‘(B) National discovery trails are specifically exempt-
ed from the provisions of sections 7(g) of this Act. 
‘‘(C) The appropriate Secretary shall obtain written 
consent from affected landowners prior to entering non-
public lands for the purposes of conducting any surveys 
or studies of nonpublic lands relating to designating or 
administering national discovery trails.’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO REFLECT NEW 
CATEGORY OF NATIONAL TRAIL.—The National Trails 
System Act is amended— 
(1) in section 2(b) (16 U.S.C. 1241(b)), by 
striking ‘‘scenic and historic’’ and inserting ‘‘scenic, 
historic, and discovery’’; 
(2) in section 5 (16 U.S.C. 1244)— 
(A) by striking the section heading and 
‘‘SEC. 5. (a)’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 5. NATIONAL SCENIC, NATIONAL HISTORIC, AND NA-
TIONAL DISCOVERY TRAILS. 
‘‘(a) CONGRESSIONALLY AUTHORIZED TRAILS.—’’; 
(B) in subsection (a), in the matter pre-
ceding paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and national historic’’ 
and inserting ‘‘, national historic, and na-
tional discovery’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘and National His-
toric’’ and inserting ‘‘, National Historic, 
and National Discovery’’; and 
(C) in subsection (b)(1) (as amended by 
subsection (c) of this section)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘or national his-
toric’’ and inserting ‘‘, national historic, or 
national discovery’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘or national historic’’ and inserting ‘‘, na-
tional historic, or national discovery’’; and 
(3) in section 7 (16 U.S.C. 1246)— 
(A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘and 
national historic’’ and inserting ‘‘, national his-
toric, and national discovery’’; 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘or na-
tional historic’’ each place such term appears 
and inserting ‘‘, national historic, or national 
discovery’’; 
(C) in subsection (c)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘scenic or national his-
toric’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘scenic, national historic, or national dis-
covery’’;
(ii) in the second proviso, by striking 
‘‘scenic, or national historic’’ and inserting 
‘‘scenic, national historic, or national dis-
covery’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘, and national his-
toric’’ and inserting ‘‘, national historic, 
and national discovery’’; 
(D) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘or na-
tional historic’’ and inserting ‘‘national historic, 
or national discovery’’; 
(E) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘or na-
tional historic’’ each place such term appears 
and inserting ‘‘, national historic, or national 
discovery’’; 
(F) in subsection (f)(2), by striking ‘‘Na-
tional Scenic or Historic Trail’’ and inserting 
‘‘national scenic, historic, or discovery trail’’; 
(G) in subsection (h)(1), by striking ‘‘or 
national historic’’ and inserting ‘‘national his-
toric, or national discovery’’; and 
(H) in subsection (i), by striking ‘‘or na-
tional historic’’ and inserting ‘‘national historic, 
or national discovery’’.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF AMERICAN DISCOVERY TRAIL AS 
A NATIONAL DISCOVERY TRAIL. 
Section 5(a) of National Trails System Act (16 
U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(25) The American Discovery Trail, a trail of ap-
proximately 6,000 miles extending from Cape Henlopen 
State Park in Delaware to Point Reyes National Seashore 
in California, extending westward through Delaware, 
Maryland, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, Ohio, 
and Kentucky, where near Cincinnati it splits into two 
routes. The Northern Midwest route traverses Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado, and the 
Southern Midwest route traverses Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri, Kansas, and Colorado. After the two routes rejoin 
in Denver, Colorado, the route continues through Colo-
rado, Utah, Nevada, and California. The trail is generally 
described in Volume 2 of the National Park Service feasi-
bility study dated June 1995 which shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the office of the Director 
of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 
The American Discovery Trail shall be administered by 
the Secretary of the Interior in cooperation with at least 
one competent trailwide volunteer-based organization, af-
fected land managing agencies and State and local govern-
ments as appropriate. No lands or interests outside the
exterior boundaries of federally administered areas may 
be acquired by the Federal Government solely for the 
American Discovery Trail. The American Discovery Trail 
is specifically exempted from the provisions of subsection 
(e), (f), and (g) of section 7.’’. 
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