SEC. 4. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS. 
The Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative 
agreements with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
(and its political subdivisions), the State of Connecticut 
(and its political subdivisions), the Appalachian Mountain 
Club, the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, and 
other regional, local, and private organizations deemed 
necessary and desirable to accomplish cooperative trail ad-
ministrative, management, and protection objectives con-
sistent with the Trail Management Blueprint. An agree-
ment under this section may include provisions for limited 
financial assistance to encourage participation in the plan-
ning, acquisition, protection, operation, development, or 
maintenance of the trail. 
SEC. 5. ADDITIONAL TRAIL SEGMENTS. 
Pursuant to section 6 of the National Trails System 
Act, the Secretary is encouraged to work with the State 
of New Hampshire and appropriate local and private orga-
nizations to include that portion of the Metacomet-Monad-
nock
Trail
in
New
Hampshire
(which
lies
between 
Royalston, Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire) 
as a component of the New England National Scenic 
Trail. Inclusion of this segment, as well as other potential 
side or connecting trails, is contingent upon written appli-
cation to the Secretary by appropriate State and local ju-
risdictions and a finding by the Secretary that trail man-
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agement and administration is consistent with the Trail 
Management Blueprint. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘New England National 
Scenic Trail Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION. 
Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 
U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(27) NEW ENGLAND NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL.— 
The New England National Scenic Trail, a contin-
uous trail extending approximately 220 miles from 
the border of New Hampshire in the town of 
Royalston, Massachusetts to Long Island Sound in 
the town of Guilford, Connecticut, as generally de-
picted on the map titled ‘New England National Sce-
nic Trail Proposed Route’, numbered T06/80,000, and 
dated October 2007. The map shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the appropriate of-
fices of the National Park Service. The Secretary of 
the Interior, in consultation with appropriate Fed-
eral, State, tribal, regional, and local agencies, and 
other organizations, shall administer the trail after 
considering the recommendations of the report titled 
the ‘Metacomet Monadnock Mattabesset Trail System 
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National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study and Envi-
ronmental Assessment’, prepared by the National 
Park Service, and dated Spring 2006. The United 
States shall not acquire for the trail any land or in-
terest in land without the consent of the owner.’’. 
SEC. 3. MANAGEMENT. 
The Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall consider the actions out-
lined in the Trail Management Blueprint described in the 
report titled the ‘‘Metacomet Monadnock Mattabesett Trail 
System National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study and Envi-
ronmental Assessment’’, prepared by the National Park 
Service, and dated Spring 2006, as the framework for man-
agement and administration of the New England National 
Scenic Trail. Additional or more detailed plans for admin-
istration, management, protection, access, maintenance, or 
development of the trail may be developed consistent with 
the Trail Management Blueprint, and as approved by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 4. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS. 
The Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative 
agreements with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (and 
its political subdivisions), the State of Connecticut (and its 
political subdivisions), and other regional, local, and pri-
vate organizations deemed necessary and desirable to ac-
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complish cooperative trail administrative, management, 
and protection objectives consistent with the Trail Manage-
ment Blueprint. An agreement under this section may in-
clude provisions for limited financial assistance to encour-
age participation in the planning, acquisition, protection, 
operation, development, or maintenance of the trail. 
SEC. 5. ADDITIONAL TRAIL SEGMENTS. 
Pursuant to section 6 of the National Trails System 
Act, the Secretary is encouraged to work with the State of 
New Hampshire and appropriate local and private organi-
zations to include that portion of the Metacomet-Monadnock 
Trail in New Hampshire (which lies between Royalston, 
Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire) as a compo-
nent of the New England National Scenic Trail. Inclusion 
of this segment, as well as other potential side or connecting 
trails, is contingent upon written application to the Sec-
retary by appropriate State and local jurisdictions and a 
finding by the Secretary that trail management and ad-
ministration is consistent with the Trail Management Blue-
print. 
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Calendar No. 814 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1528 
[Report No. 110–382] 
AN ACT 
To amend the National Trails System Act to des-
ignate the New England National Scenic Trail, 
and for other purposes. 
JUNE 16, 2008 
Reported with an amendment 
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