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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-135
EMANCIPATION NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL STUDY ACT
JUNE 27, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 434]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 434) to designate the Emancipation National Historic
Trail, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill
as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Emancipation National Historic Trail Study Act.
SEC. 2. EMANCIPATION NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL STUDY.
Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
(47) EMANCIPATION NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.-The Emancipation National
Historic Trail, extending approximately 51 miles from the Osterman Building
and Reedy Chapel in Galveston, Texas, along Texas State Highway 3 and Inter-
state Highway 45 North, to Freedmen's Town, then to Independence Heights
and Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas, following the migration route taken
by newly freed slaves and other persons of African descent from the major 19th
century seaport town of Galveston to the burgeoning community of Freedmen's
Town, located in the 4th Ward of Houston, Texas..
Amend the title so as to read:
A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the
study of the Emancipation National Historic Trail, and for other
purposes.
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