Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
This bill amends the National Trails System Act to add the Bonneville Shoreline Trail to the list of trails for which the Secretary of the Interior must conduct a feasibility study.
The trail is described as roughly 280 miles from the Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, Utah, following the historic Lake Bonneville bench.
The text directs study feasibility only; it does not itself designate the trail or appropriate funds.
Very narrow, low-cost study direction with local benefits usually wins bipartisan support, though procedural hurdles remain.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly identifies a single subject for study and specifies the statutory insertion point, but provides minimal procedural, fiscal, or accountability detail.
Liberals emphasize conservation, access, and tribal consultation.
Liberals emphasize conservation, access, and tribal consultation.
Likely generally favorable: views a feasibility study as a low‑risk step toward protected public access, recreation, and habitat connectivity.
Would press for strong environmental, equity, and tribal consultation in the study and for protections if designation follows.
Cautiously supportive: sees the study as a reasonable, incremental step to assess feasibility, costs, and stakeholder impacts.
Wants clear scope, cost estimates, and coordination with state and local governments before endorsement of designation.
Skeptical: wary that a federal study is the first step toward federal designation that could affect private property rights and local control.
May accept a narrowly scoped study only if it explicitly protects private landowners and limits federal acquisition.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
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Still ahead
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Very narrow, low-cost study direction with local benefits usually wins bipartisan support, though procedural hurdles remain.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals emphasize conservation, access, and tribal consultation.
Very narrow, low-cost study direction with local benefits usually wins bipartisan support, though procedural hurdles remain.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly identifies a single subject for study and specifies the statutory insertion point, but provides minimal procedural, fiscal, or accountability detail.
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