110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1528 
AN ACT 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 
New England National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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: 
‘‘(ll) NEW
ENGLAND
NATIONAL
SCENIC 
TRAIL.—The New England National Scenic Trail, a 
continuous 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 
Scenic Trail Proposed Route’, numbered T06– 
80,000, and dated October 2007. The map shall be 
on file and available for public inspection in the ap-
propriate offices of the National Park Service. The 
Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with Fed-
eral, State, tribal, regional, and local agencies, the 
Appalachian Mountain Club, the Connecticut Forest 
and Park Association, and other organizations, shall 
administer the trail consistent with the recommenda-
tions of the draft report titled the ‘Metacomet Mo-
nadnock Mattabesset Trail System National Scenic 
Trail Feasibility Study and Environmental Assess-
ment’, prepared by the National Park Service, and 
dated Spring 2006. The United States shall not ac-
quire for the trail any land or interest in land with-
out the consent of the owner.’’. 
SEC. 3. MANAGEMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior 
(hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall 
use the Trail Management Blueprint described in the draft 
report titled the ‘‘Metacomet Monadnock Mattabesett 
Trail System National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study and 
Environmental Assessment’’, prepared by the National 
Park Service, and dated Spring 2006, as the framework 
for management and administration of the New England 
National Scenic Trail. Additional or more detailed plans 
for administration, management, protection, access, main-
tenance, or development of the trail may be developed con-
sistent with the Trail Management Blueprint, and as ap-
proved by the Secretary. 
(b) APPLICATION OF CERTAIN STATE AND LOCAL 
LAWS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), all designated 
and future designated lands within the New England Na-
tional Scenic Trail, including all Federal lands, shall be 
exclusively governed by relevant State and local laws re-
garding hunting, fishing, and the possession or use of a 
weapon (including concealed weapons), trap, or net.
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-
agement and administration is consistent with the Trail 
Management Blueprint. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 29, 
2008. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1528 
AN ACT 
To amend the National Trails System Act to des-
ignate the New England National Scenic Trail, 
and for other purposes.