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117-s-3519117th CongressWALLET

Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail Designation Act

Sponsored By: Senator Boozman, John [R-AR]

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Summary

Designates the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail as the 31st addition to the National Trails System. It recognizes the historic Butterfield Overland Mail route and marks an official corridor tracing that route across the country.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Landowner and energy protections near the trail

The government cannot take your land for the trail without your consent if it is outside federal areas. The Secretary of the Interior cannot use eminent domain or condemnation. The designation creates no buffer zones. Uses on land outside the trail, even if seen, heard, or detected from trail land, are not limited by the trail. Trail plans cannot block energy development, production, or transmission.

Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail created

The law establishes the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail. It is about 3,292 miles long. It runs from St. Louis and Memphis to San Francisco through Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The route matches maps 1-15 in a 2018 National Park Service study. Those maps are on file for public inspection. The Secretary of the Interior manages the trail.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Boozman, John [R-AR]

AR • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]

    MO • R

    Sponsored 1/19/2022

  • Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]

    NM • D

    Sponsored 1/19/2022

  • Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 1/19/2022

  • Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]

    AR • R

    Sponsored 1/19/2022

  • Rep. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ-9]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 6/22/2022

Roll Call Votes

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