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16 U.S.C. § 1245 — Connecting or side trails; establishment, designation, and marking as components of national trails system; location
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Connecting or side trails within park, forest, and other recreation areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Agriculture may be established, designated, and marked by the appropriate Secretary as components of a national recreation, national scenic or national historic trail. When no Federal land acquisition is involved, connecting or side trails may be located across lands administered by interstate, State, or local governmental agencies with their consent, or, where the appropriate Secretary deems necessary or desirable, on privately owned lands with the consent of the landowner. Applications for approval and designation of connecting and side trails on non-Federal lands shall be submitted to the appropriate Secretary.
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Connecting or side trails within park, forest, and other recreation areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Agriculture may be established, designated, and marked by the appropriate Secretary as components of a national recreation, national scenic or national historic trail. When no Federal land acquisition is involved, connecting or side trails may be located across lands administered by interstate, State, or local governmental agencies with their consent, or, where the appropriate Secretary deems necessary or desirable, on privately owned lands with the consent of the landowner. Applications for approval and designation of connecting and side trails on non-Federal lands shall be submitted to the appropriate Secretary.
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**(a) Composition: recreation trails; scenic trails; historic trails; connecting or side trails; uniform markers** The national system of trails shall be composed of the following:
(1) National recreation trails, established as provided in [section 1243 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1243&num=0&edition=prelim), which will provide a variety of outdoor recreation uses in or reasonably accessible to urban areas.
(2) National scenic trails, established as provided in [section 1244 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1244&num=0&edition=prelim), which will be extended trails so located as to provide for maximum outdoor recreation potential and for the conservation and enjoyment of the nationally significant scenic, historic, natural, or cultural qualities of the areas through which such trails may pass. National scenic trails may be located so as to represent desert, marsh, grassland, mountain, canyon, river, forest, and other areas, as well as landforms which exhibit significant characteristics of the physiographic regions of the Nation.
(3) National historic trails, established as provided in [section 1244 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1244&num=0&edition=prelim), which will be extended trails which follow as closely as possible and practicable the original trails or routes of travel of national historical significance. Designation of such trails or routes shall be continuous, but the established or developed trail, and the acquisition thereof, need not be continuous onsite. National historic trails shall have as their purpose the identification and protection of the historic route and its historic
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**(a) Establishment and designation; administration** National scenic and national historic trails shall be authorized and designated only by Act of Congress. There are hereby established the following National Scenic and National Historic Trails:
(1) The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, a trail of approximately two thousand miles extending generally along the Appalachian Mountains from Mount Katahdin, Maine, to Springer Mountain, Georgia. Insofar as practicable, the right-of-way for such trail shall comprise the trail depicted on the maps identified as “Nationwide System of Trails, Proposed Appalachian Trail, NST–AT–101–May 1967”, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Director of the National Park Service. Where practicable, such rights-of-way shall include lands protected for it under agreements in effect as of October 2, 1968, to which Federal agencies and States were parties. The Appalachian Trail shall be administered primarily as a footpath by the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture.
(2) The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, a trail of approximately two thousand three hundred fifty miles, extending from the Mexican-California border northward generally along the mountain ranges of the west coast States to the Canadian-Washington border near Lake Ross, following the route as generally depicted on the map, identified as “Nationwide System of Trails, Proposed Pacific Crest Trail, NST–PC–103–May 1967” which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service. The Pacific Crest Trail shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior.
(3) The Oregon National Historic Trail, a
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 1246
De Soto Expedition Trail Commission, the purpose of
which is to encourage and direct research, and to co-
ordinate the distribution of interpretive materials to
the public, regarding the De Soto expedition, the native
societies the expedition encountered, and the effects of
that contact, provided for the functions, staff, and pow-
ers of the Commission, and authorized research, tech-
nical assistance, and appropriations.
AUTHORIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TRAILS
INTERPRETATION CENTER IN IOWA
Pub. L. 101–191, Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1697, as amend-
ed by Pub. L. 116–9, title II, § 2411, Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat.
752, authorized Secretary of the Interior to provide for
development of a trails interpretation center in city of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, set forth provisions relating to
Congressional findings and purposes, plan and design of
the center and implementation thereof, agreement for
operation and maintenance of the center, cooperative
agreements for technical assistance, extinguishment of
any restrictions, covenants, reversions, limitations, or
any other conditions imposed by the Economic Devel-
opment Administration upon acceptance of donated
land by Secretary, and conveyance of reversionary in-
terest if operation of the center is determined no longer
to be in the public interest, and authorized appropria-
tions of not more than $8,400,000 to carry out the Act.
SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
ROUTE
Pub. L. 100–698, title II, §§ 201–203, Nov. 19, 1988, 102
Stat. 4622, authorized Secretary of the Interior to des-
ignate, and authorized appropriations for, a vehicular
tour route to provide for public appreciation, edu-
cation, understanding, and enjoyment of certain na-
tionally and regionally sig
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