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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1814

  To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Metacomet-
   Monadnock-Sunapee-Mattabesett Trail extending through western New 
Hampshire, western Massachusetts, and central Connecticut for study for 
           potential addition to the National Trails System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2001

 Mr. Olver (for himself, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mrs. 
 Johnson of Connecticut, Mr. Bass, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, and Mr. 
   Maloney of Connecticut) introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Metacomet-
   Monadnock-Sunapee-Mattabesett Trail extending through western New 
Hampshire, western Massachusetts, and central Connecticut for study for 
           potential addition to the National Trails System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Metacomet-Monadnock-Sunapee-
Mattabesett Trail Study Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF METACOMET-MONADNOCK-SUNAPEE-MATTABESETT TRAIL 
              FOR STUDY FOR POTENTIAL ADDITION TO THE NATIONAL TRAILS 
              SYSTEM.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(____) Metacomet-Monadnock-Sunapee-Mattabesett Trail.--The 
Metacomet-Monadnock-Sunapee-Mattabesett Trail, a system of trails and 
potential trails extending southward approximately 260 miles from the 
Appalachian National Scenic Trail in western New Hampshire, connecting 
with Mount Sunapee on the Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail, through 
western Massachusetts on the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, across central 
Connecticut on the Metacomet Trail and the Mattabesett Trail, and 
ending at Long Island Sound.''.

SEC. 3. EXPEDITED REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Notwithstanding the fourth sentence of section 5(b) of the National 
Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(b)), the Secretary of the Interior 
shall submit the study required by the amendment made by section 2 to 
Congress not later than two years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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