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2026-03-04 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Introduced Date
2025-03-26
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to study whether the Bonneville Shoreline Trail should be added to the National Trails System. The trail is a planned network of trails and possible future trail routes that runs for about 280 miles in Utah, from the Idaho-Utah border down to Nephi. It follows the “Bonneville bench,” a landform shaped by the ancient Lake Bonneville. The bill does not create the trail designation right away; it only asks for a study on whether that designation would be a good idea.
- The study would look at the trail’s possible place in the National Trails System.
- The trail area described is about 280 miles long.
- It stretches from the Idaho-Utah border to Nephi, Utah.
- The route follows land formed by the old Lake Bonneville shoreline.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1135 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1135
To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the
Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the
Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 26, 2025
Mr. Curtis (for himself and Mr. Lee) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the
Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the
Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. BONNEVILLE SHORELINE TRAIL FEASIBILITY STUDY.
Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c))
is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(50) Bonneville shoreline trail.--The Bonneville
Shoreline Trail, a system of trails and potential trails
extending approximately 280 miles from the Idaho-Utah border to
Nephi, Utah, following the Bonneville bench that was created by
the historic Lake Bonneville.''.
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