[107th Congress Public Law 338]
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Public Law 107-338
107th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Metacomet-
Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail extending through western Massachusetts and 
  central Connecticut for study for potential addition to the National 
         Trails System. <<NOTE: Dec. 16, 2002 -  [H.R. 1814]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress <<NOTE: Metacomet-Monadnock-
Mattabesett Trail Study Act of 2002.>>  assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. <<NOTE: 16 USC 1241 note.>> 

    This Act may be cited as the ``Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail 
Study Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF METACOMET-MONADNOCK-MATTABESETT TRAIL FOR STUDY 
            FOR POTENTIAL ADDITION TO THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(____) Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail.--The Metacomet-
Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail, a system of trails and potential trails 
extending southward approximately 180 miles through western 
Massachusetts on the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, across central 
Connecticut on the Metacomet Trail and the Mattabesett Trail, and ending 
at Long Island Sound.''.

SEC. 3. EXPEDITED REPORT TO CONGRESS. <<NOTE: Deadline. 16 USC 1244 
            note.>> 

    Notwithstanding the fourth sentence of section 5(b) of the National 
Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(b)), the Secretary of the Interior 
shall submit the study required by the amendment made by section 2 to 
Congress not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

    Approved December 16, 2002.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 1814:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 107-224 (Comm. on Resources).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 107-263 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 147 (2001):
                                    Oct. 23, considered and passed 
                                        House.
                                                        Vol. 148 (2002):
                                    Nov. 19, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.

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