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Union Calendar No. 484 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 801 
[Report No. 115–633] 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Route 66 National 
Historic Trail, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2017 
Mr. LAHOOD (for himself, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, 
Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mrs. TORRES, 
and Mr. KINZINGER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Natural Resources 
APRIL 13, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. FOSTER, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. COOK, Mr. AGUILAR, Ms. 
JENKINS of Kansas, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of 
New Mexico, Mr. O’HALLERAN, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´N of New Mexico, 
Mr. COLE, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. LONG, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, and Mr. 
CLAY 
APRIL 13, 2018 
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 February 1, 2017] 
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A BILL 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 
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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 ‘‘Route 66 National His-
toric Trail Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF THE ROUTE 66 NATIONAL HIS-
TORIC TRAIL. 
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: 
‘‘(31) ROUTE 66 NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Route 66 National 
Historic Trail, a trail that includes all the 
alignments of U.S. Highway 66 in existence be-
tween 1926 and 1985, extending along a route of 
approximately 2,400 miles from Chicago, Illi-
nois, to Santa Monica, California, as generally 
depicted on the map entitled ‘Route 66 National 
Historic Trail, Proposed Route’, numbered P26/ 
141,279, and dated December 2017. 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF MAP.—The map de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the appro-
priate offices of the National Park Service, De-
partment of the Interior. 
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‘‘(C) ADMINISTRATION.—The Route 66 Na-
tional Historic Trail shall be administered by 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Director of the National Park Service. Such ad-
ministration shall be conducted in a manner 
that respects and maintains the idiosyncratic 
nature of the Route 66 National Historic Trail. 
‘‘(D) 
LAND
ACQUISITION.—The 
United 
States may not acquire for the Route 66 Na-
tional Historic Trail any land or interest in 
land— 
‘‘(i) outside the exterior boundary of 
any federally managed area without the 
consent of the owner of the land or interest 
in land; or 
‘‘(ii) that extends more than an aver-
age of one-quarter of a mile on either side 
of the trail. 
‘‘(E) NO BUFFER ZONE CREATED.—Nothing 
in this Act, the acquisition of the land or an in-
terest in land authorized by this Act, or the 
management plan for the Route 66 National 
Historic Trail shall be construed to create buffer 
zones outside of the Trail. That activities or uses 
can be seen, heard, or detected from the acquired 
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