I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1528 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the New England 
National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2007 
Mr. OLVER (for himself, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. MURPHY of Con-
necticut, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. COURTNEY, and Mr. LARSON of Con-
necticut) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
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: 
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‘‘(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 maps associated with the preferred al-
ternative contained in the draft 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. The report 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in 
the appropriate offices of the National Park Service. 
The Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with 
Federal, State, tribal, regional, and local agencies, 
the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Connecticut 
Forest and Park Association, and other organiza-
tions, shall administer the trail consistent with the 
recommendations of the draft report. 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 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall use the Trail Man-
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agement Blueprint described in the draft report titled the 
‘‘Metacomet Monadnock Mattabesett Trail System Na-
tional 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, man-
agement, 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), 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. 
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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. 
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