Ocean, a feat that had never before been accomplished; and
WHEREAS, In order to recognize the historic significance of
the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the National Park Service
previously designated a trail that runs from Wood River,
Illinois, to the West Coast in Oregon and Washington; and
WHEREAS, Public Law 110-229, passed by the Congress of the
United States in 2008, authorized the Secretary of the Interior
to study additional sites associated with the preparation and
return phases of the expedition, located in Pennsylvania,
Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, West
Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri and
Illinois; and
WHEREAS, Those sites were to be considered for inclusion in
the "Eastern Legacy" of the expedition; and
WHEREAS, The National Park Service evaluated 25 distinct
route segments used by the Corps of Discovery for the expedition
to determine if they met the criteria for national significance
established by the National Trails System Act; and
WHEREAS, In August 2016, the National Park Service published
its Draft Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension
Study, finding that three sections met the criteria established
for inclusion in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail;
and
WHEREAS, Those segments include the Ohio River, from
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Louisville, Kentucky; from
Louisville, Kentucky, to the confluence with the Mississippi
River; and from the Mississippi River's confluence with the Ohio
River at Cairo, Illinois, to Wood River, Illinois; and
WHEREAS, A portion of the proposed extension of the Lewis and
Clark National Historic Trail includes sites along the Ohio
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