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LEGISLATIONThe American Discovery Trail Society is attempting to have the American Discovery Trail added to the National Trails System. This literally takes an "Act of Congress" and has thus far been a ten-year effort. In the first step, Congress passed a law directing the National Park Service to conduct a feasibility and desirability study to determine if the ADT qualified to become a part of the National Trails System. Completed in December 1995, this study recommended that the ADT be added to the National Trails System as the first of a new category of long-distance trails to be known as National Discovery Trails. Legislation to implement this recommendation, known as the National Discovery Trails Act, was first introduced in 1996 in the 104th Congress but did not pass. It was re-introduced in 1997 in the 105th Congress, in 1999 in the 106th Congress, and in 2001 in the 107th Congress. Each time, the bill passed the Senate unanimously but stalled in committees in the House. The legislation was re-introduced by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland in January 2007 as H.R. 74.
For more information about the ADT Society, please email us at info@discoverytrail.org.
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