Sec. 2. Congressional declaration of policy
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Congress declares that— the large landscape conservation work relating to national historic trails and national scenic trails is built on partnership, collaboration, and community engagement; national historic trails and national scenic trails— are landscape conservation tools; and are federally designated areas, but may include portions of non-Federal land under the National Trails System Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1241 et seq. ); national historic trails and national scenic trails are intended to be developed and preserved over time, collaboratively and cooperatively, to further the purposes of the National Trails System Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1241 et seq. ); the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, 1 of the first 2 components of the National Trails System— is a realm of natural, scenic, historical, and cultural wonder available to all; and is a model for cooperative management and public-private partnership; the centennial of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy in 2025 is an opportunity to strengthen the precepts of the cooperative management model— pioneered on the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; and to be replicated as appropriate throughout the National Trails System; the development of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail is in large part due to the efforts of volunteer organizations (commonly referred to as Appalachian Trail Maintaining Clubs ) that— directly or through subdivisions or subsidiary organizations, have coordinated the participation of tens of thousands of volunteers for the planning, construction, development, maintenance, operation, and stewardship of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, which inspired the establishment of the National Trails System; and are the expert, dispersed corps of volunteers who provide much of the day-to-day cooperative operation of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; there are inherently governmental functions referred to in the National Trails System Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1241 et seq. ) relating to the administration of national historic trails and national scenic trails, which is distinct from the management and operation of those trails; the Federal Government is responsible for— the administration of national historic trails and national scenic trails; and in cases in which the United States is the landowner, the management of national historic trails and national scenic trails; volunteers, volunteer organizations, and other cooperating individuals or entities are empowered to undertake non-inherently governmental and delegable roles in the management and operation of national historic trails and national scenic trails; the operation of a national historic trail or national scenic trail does not require land management authority over the land on which the national historic trail or national scenic trail is located; and it is the policy of the Federal Government that national historic trails and national scenic trails— are conservation units managed and operated in partnership with governmental and nongovernmental entities; and while administered by Federal agencies, are intended to be cooperatively developed with appropriate non-Federal Governmental and nongovernmental partners.
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