[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 23, 2001)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7391-7393]
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Executive Order 13195 of January 18, 2001
Trails for America in the 21st Century
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in furtherance of purposes of the National
Trails System Act of 1968, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1241-
1251), the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century (Public Law 105-178), and other pertinent
statutes, and to achieve the common goal of better
establishing and operating America's national system of
trails, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Federal Agency Duties. Federal agencies
will, to the extent permitted by law and where
practicable--and in cooperation with Tribes, States,
local governments, and interested citizen groups--
protect, connect, promote, and assist trails of all
types throughout the United States. This will be
accomplished by:
(a) Providing trail opportunities of all types,
with minimum adverse impacts and maximum benefits for
natural, cultural, and community resources;
(b) Protecting the trail corridors associated with
national scenic trails and the high priority potential
sites and segments of national historic trails to the
degrees necessary to ensure that the values for which
each trail was established remain intact;
(c) Coordinating maps and data for the components
of the national trails system and Millennium Trails
network to ensure that these trails are connected into
a national system and that they benefit from
appropriate national programs;
(d) Promoting and registering National Recreation
Trails, as authorized in the National Trails System
Act, by incorporating where possible the commitments
and partners active with Millennium Trails;
(e) Participating in a National Trails Day the
first Saturday of June each year, coordinating Federal
events with the National Trails Day's sponsoring
organization, the American Hiking Society;
(f) Familiarizing Federal agencies that are active
in tourism and travel with the components of a national
system of trails and the Millennium Trails network and
including information about them in Federal promotional
and outreach programs;
(g) Fostering volunteer programs and opportunities
to engage volunteers in all aspects of trail planning,
development, maintenance, management, and education as
outlined in 16 U.S.C. 1250;
(h) Encouraging participation of qualified youth
conservation or service corps, as outlined in 41 U.S.C.
12572 and 42 U.S.C. 12656, to perform construction and
maintenance of trails and trail-related projects, as
encouraged in sections 1108(g) and 1112(e) of the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, and
also in trail planning protection, operations, and
education;
(i) Promoting trails for safe transportation and
recreation within communities;
(j) Providing and promoting a wide variety of trail
opportunities and experiences for people of all ages
and abilities;
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(k) Providing historical interpretation of trails
and trail sites and enhancing cultural and heritage
tourism through special events, artworks, and programs;
and
(l) Providing training and information services to
provide high-quality information and training
opportunities to Federal employees, Tribal, State, and
local government agencies, and the other trail
partners.
Sec. 2. The Federal Interagency Council on Trails. The
Federal Interagency Council on Trails (Council), first
established by agreement between the Secretaries of
Agriculture and the Interior in 1969, is hereby
recognized as a long-standing interagency working
group. Its core members represent the Department of the
Interior's Bureau of Land of Management and National
Park Service, the Department of Agriculture's Forest
Service, and the Department of Transportation's Federal
Highway Administration. Other Federal agencies, such as
those representing cultural and heritage interests, are
welcome to join this council. Leadership of the Council
may rotate among its members as decided among
themselves at the start of each fiscal year. The
Council's mission is to coordinate information and
program decisions, as well as policy recommendations,
among all appropriate Federal agencies (in consultation
with appropriate nonprofit organizations) to foster the
development of America's trails through the following
means:
(a) Enhancing federally designated trails of all
types (e.g., scenic, historic, recreation, and
Millennium) and working to integrate these trails into
a fully connected national system;
(b) Coordinating mapping, signs and markers,
historical and cultural interpretations, public
information, training, and developing plans and
recommendations for a national trails registry and
database;
(c) Ensuring that trail issues are integrated in
Federal agency programs and that technology transfer
and education programs are coordinated at the national
level; and
(d) Developing a memorandum of understanding among
the agencies to encourage long-term interagency
coordination and cooperation to further the spirit and
intent of the National Trails System Act and related
programs.
Sec. 3. Issue Resolution and Handbook for Federal
Administrators of the National Trails System. Federal
agencies shall together develop a process for resolving
interagency issues concerning trails. In addition,
reflecting the authorities of the National Trails
System Act, participating agencies shall coordinate
preparation of (and updates for) an operating handbook
for Federal administrators of the National Trails
System and others involved in creating a national
system of trails. The handbook shall reflect each
agencies' governing policies and provide guidance to
each agencies' field staff and partners about the roles
and responsibilities needed to make each trail in the
national system fully operational.
Sec. 4. Observance of Existing Laws. Nothing in this
Executive Order shall be construed to override existing
laws, including those that protect the lands, waters,
wildlife habitats, wilderness areas, and cultural
values of this Nation.
Sec. 5. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to
improve the internal management of the executive
branch. It does not create any right or benefit,
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substantive or procedural, enforceable in law or equity
by any party against the United States, its agencies,
its officers or employees, or any other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 18, 2001.
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