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To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Star-Spangled Banner Trail in the States of Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia as a National Historic Trail. 7/23/2007--Passed House amended.    (There is 1 other summary) Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to include the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail (the Trail), a trail consisting of water and overland routes totaling approximately 290 miles and extending from Tangier Island, Virginia, through southern Maryland, the District of Columbia, and northern Virginia and in the Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent River, Potomac River and north to the Patapsco River and Baltimore, Maryland, commemorating the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812. Requires the Trail to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior. Allows the Secretary to provide to state and local governments and nonprofit organizations interpretive [...]

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  • 06/11/2008 - Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
  • 07/24/2007 - Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 285.
  • 07/23/2007 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1388.
  • 07/23/2007 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-250.
  • 07/23/2007 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 159.

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