Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 82.djvu/963

 82 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 90-543-OCT. 2, 1968

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of the heads of such organizations: Provided,, That the Appalachian Trail Conference shall be represented by a sufficient number of persons to represent the various sections of the country through which the Appalachian Trail passes; and (iv) The Secretary shall designate one member to be chairman and shall fill vacancies in the same manner as the original appointment. (b) The Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture Additional where lands administered by him are involved, s:hall make such addi- studies. tional s t u d i o as are herein or may hereafter be authorized by the Congress for the purpose of determining the feasibility and desirability of desigiiating other trails as national scenic trails. Such studies shall be made in consultation with the heads of other Federal agencies administering lands through which such additional proposed trails would pass and in cooperation with interested interstate. State, and local governmental agencies, public and private organizations, and landowners and land users concerned. When completed, such studies ^^^fp"*"^ J-°„r'^^^^' and shall be the basis of appropriate proposals for additional national dent s. Congre s scenic trails which shall be submitted from time to time to the President and to the Congress. Such proposals shall be accompanied by a report, which shall be printed as a House or Senate document, showing among other things— (1) the proposed route of such trail (including maps and illustrations); (2) the areas adjacent to such trails, to be utilized for scenic, historic, natural, cultural, or developmental, purposes; (3) the characteristics which, in the judgment of the appropriate Secretary, make the proposed trail worthy of designation as a national scenic trail; (4) the current status of land ownership and current and potential use alon^ the designated route; (5) the estimated cost of acquisition of lands or interest in lands, (6) the plans for developing and maintaining the trail and the cost thereof; (7) the proposed Federal administering agency (which, in the case of a national scenic trail wholly or substantially within a national forest, shall be the Department of Agriculture); (8) the extent to which a State or its political subdivisions and public and private organizations might reasonably be expected to participate in acquiring the necessary lands and in the administration thereof; and (9) the relative uses of the lands involved, including: the number of anticipated visitor-days for the entire length of, as well as for segments of, such trail; the number of months which such trail, or segments thereof, will be open for recreation purposes; the economic and social benefits which might accrue from alternate land uses; and the estimated man-years of civilian employment and expenditures expected for the purposes of maintenance, supervision, and regulation of such trail. (c) The following routes shall be studied in accordance with the objectives outlined in subsection (b) of this section: (1) Continental Divide Trail, a three-thousand-one-hundred-mile trail extending from near the Mexican border in southwestern New Mexico northward generally along the Continental Divide to the Canadian border in Glacier National Park. (2) Potomac Heritage Trail, an eight-hundred-and-twenty-five-mile trail extending generally from the mouth of the Potomac Eiver to its sources in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including the onehundred-and-seventy-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath.

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