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111TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 111-267
UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS TRAIL SPECIAL RESOURCE
STUDY ACT OF 2009
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. RAHALL, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 685]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 685) to require a study of the feasibility of establishing
the United States Civil Rights Trail System, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
amendments and recommends 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 United States Civil Rights Trail Special Resource
Study Act of 2009.
SEC. 2. SPECIAL RESOURCE STUDY REGARDING PROPOSED UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS
TRAIL.
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.-The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a special re-
source study for the purpose of evaluating a range of alternatives for protecting and
interpreting sites associated with the struggle for civil rights in the United States,
including alternatives for potential addition of some or all of the sites to the Na-
tional Trails System.
(b) CONSULTATION.-The Secretary shall conduct the special resource study in con-
sultation with appropriate Federal, State, county, and local governmental entities.
(C) STUDY REQUIREMENTS.-The Secretary shall conduct the study required under
subsection (a) in accordance with section 8(c) of Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. la-
5(c)) and section 5(b) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(b)), as ap-
propriate.
(d) STUDY OBJECTIVES.-In conducting the special resource study, the Secretary
shall evaluate alternatives for achieving the following objectives:
(1) Identifying the resources and historic themes associated with the move-
ment to secure racial equality in the United States for African Americans that,
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