A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with that trail, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1970
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arkansas
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-Indian relations
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Minorities
Native Americans
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Relocation
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior: (1) to submit to Congress a study regarding the feasibility and suitability of designating the Benge and Belle routes, the land components of the designated water routes in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, the routes from the collection forts in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee to the emigration depots, and related campgrounds located along such routes and in such land components, by which the Cherokee Nation was removed to Oklahoma as additional components of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; and (2) upon completion of such study, if such routes are a feasible and suitable addition to the Trail, to designate them as components of such Trail. Provides that no additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out such requirements. Allows the Secretary to accept donations for the Trail from private, nonprofit, or tribal organizations.

action_date: 2006-04-20
text: 
Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to submit to Congress a study regarding the feasibility and suitability of designating, as additional components of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, the following routes and land components by which the Cherokee Nation was removed to Oklahoma: (1) the Benge and Belle routes; (2) the land components of the designated water routes in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee; (3) the routes from the collection forts in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee to the emigration depots; and (4) related campgrounds located along those routes and in those land components.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 401.
action_date: 2006-04-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici under authority of the order of the Senate of 04/07/2006 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-239.
action_date: 2006-04-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici under authority of the order of the Senate of 04/07/2006 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-239.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2006-02-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-361.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate