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The bill recognizes and promotes a 280-mile trail, boosting recreation access and local tourism but shifting maintenance and environmental management costs and responsibilities onto local communities without providing federal funding.
Hikers and outdoor recreationists along the 280-mile route gain recognized recreational access and a promoted trail network, making it easier to find, use, and enjoy the corridor.
Local communities and small businesses along the route can see increased tourism and related economic activity from trail users.
Local governments, landowners, and volunteer groups may bear maintenance and management costs because the designation does not provide new federal funding.
Increased visitor use could cause local environmental harm (erosion, litter, habitat disturbance) that will require management despite no new federal resources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds the Bonneville Shoreline Trail to the federal list of National Recreation Trails, recognizing it as a roughly 280-mile system of existing and potential trails that follows the Bonneville bench from the Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, Utah. The change is purely a designation; it does not authorize new spending, set deadlines, or direct any agency actions. The designation increases the trail's federal recognition, which can boost visibility, tourism, and coordination among trail partners, but it does not itself provide funding or create new legal requirements for states, landowners, or local governments.
Introduced May 15, 2025 by Mike Kennedy · Last progress May 15, 2025