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extending from the Mexican-California border 

 northward generally along the mountain ranges of 

 the west coast States to the Canadian-Washington 

 border near Lake Ross, following the route as gen- 

 erally depicted on the map, identified as "Nationwide 

 System of Trails, Proposed Pacific Crest Trail, NST- 

 PC-103-May 1967" which shall be on file and avail- 

 able for public inspection in the office of the Chief 

 of the Forest Service. The Pacific Crest Trail shall 

 be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, in 

 consultation with the Secretary of the Interior. 



(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall establish 

 an advisory council for the Appalachian National 

 Scenic Trail, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall 

 establish an advisory council for the Pacific Crest 

 National Scenic Trail. The appropriate Secretary 

 shall consult with such council from time to time 

 with respect to matters relating to the trail, includ- 

 ing the selection of rights-of-way, standards of the 

 erection and maintenance of markers along the trail, 

 and the administraMon of the trail. The members 

 of each advisory council, which shall not exceed 

 thirty-five in number, shall sene without compen- 

 sation or expense to the Federal Government for a 

 term of five years and shall be appointed by the 

 appropriate Secretary as follows: 



(1) A member appointed to represent each Fed- 

 eral department or independent agency adminis- 

 tering lands through which the trail route passes 

 and each appointee shall be the person designated 

 by the head of such department or agency; 



(ii) A member appointed to represent each 

 State through which the trail passes and such 

 appointments shall be made from recommenda- 

 tions of the Governors of such States; 



(111) One or more members appointed to repre- 

 sent private organizations, including landowners 

 and land users, that, in the opinion of the Secre- 

 tary, have an established and recognized interest 

 In the trail and such appointments shall be made 

 from recommendations of the heads of such orga- 

 nizations: Provided. That the Appalachian Trail 

 Conference shall be represented by a sufficient 

 number of persons to represent the various sec- 

 tions of the country through which the Appalach- 

 ian 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) Additional national scenic trails; feasibility 

 studies; consultation.s; submission of proposals to 

 the President and Congress; accompanying report. 



The Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary 

 of Agriculture where lands administered by him are 

 Involved, shall make such additional studies as are 

 herein or may hereafter be authorized by the Con- 

 gress for the purpose of determining the feasibility 

 and desirability of designating other trails as na- 

 tional 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 land- 

 owners and land users concerned. When completed, 

 such studies shall be the basis of appropriate pro- 

 posals for additional national scenic trails which 

 shall be submitted from time to time to the Presi- 

 dent 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- 

 CD the proposed route of such trail (Including 

 maps and illustrations) ; 



(2) the areas adjacent to such trails, to be uti- 

 lized for scenic, historic, natural, cultural, or de- 

 velopmental, 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 along the designated 

 route; 



(5) the estimated cost of acquisition of lands or 

 interests in lands, if any; 



(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 ac- 

 quiring the necessary lands in the administration 

 thereof: and 



(9) the relative uses of the lands involved, in- 

 cluding: 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 rec- 

 reation purposes: the economic and social bene- 

 fits which might accrue from alternate land uses; 

 and the estimated man-years of civilian employ- 

 ment and expenditures expected for the purposes 

 of maintainance. supervision, and regulation of 

 such trail. 



(c) Routes subject to consideration for designation as 

 national scenic trails. 

 The following routes shall be studied In accord- 

 ance 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 north- 

 ward 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 River to its sources in 

 Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including the one- 

 hundred-and-seventy-mile Chesapeake and Ohio 

 Canal towpath. 



(3) Old Cattle Trails of the Southwest from the 



