Colorado § 24-80-803 Old Spanish trail - marking - legislative declaration

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§ 24-80-803 — Old Spanish trail - marking - legislative declaration

Colorado § 24-80-803

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-80-803 (2026).

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(1)(a) The United States congress added the old Spanish national historic trail to the national trails system on December 4, 2002, and authorized the secretary of the interior to administer the trail. The secretary of the interior designated the bureau of land management and the national parks service as coadministrators of the entire trail. The bureau of land management and the national parks service were charged with the development of a comprehensive administrative strategy and draft environmental impact statement, in compliance with the National Trails System Act, as amended, and the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended. The comprehensive administrative strategy was finalized in December 2017.

(b)The general assembly hereby recognizes and commends the designation

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(1) (a) The
United States congress added the old Spanish national historic trail to the national
trails system on December 4, 2002, and authorized the secretary of the interior to
administer the trail. The secretary of the interior designated the bureau of land
management and the national parks service as coadministrators of the entire trail.
The bureau of land management and the national parks service were charged with
the development of a comprehensive administrative strategy and draft
environmental impact statement, in compliance with the National Trails System
Act, as amended, and the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended. The
comprehensive administrative strategy was finalized in December 2017.

(b) The general assembly hereby recognizes and commends the designation
by the congress of the United States of the old Spanish trail as a national historic
trail. The general assembly finds and declares that the portions of the old Spanish
national historic trail occurring in the state of Colorado are a valuable and
noteworthy historic resource that should be identified for the traveling public
where they travel on or cross the highways of the state of Colorado.

(c) In order to preserve the landscape, ecological, and ethnographic
characteristics of the old Spanish national historic trail, the executive director of
the department of transportation shall consult with culturally affiliated American
Indian tribes before posting any signs under this section.

(2) Subject to the availability of funding from gifts, grants, or donations, the
executive director of the department of transportation shall mark with suitable
signs, which may include the original indigenous name as a secondary interpretive
theme in accordance with the consultations conducted under subsection (1)(c) of
this section, significant route segments and sites recognized as associated with the
old Spanish national historic trail in Colorado, as generally depicted on the maps
contained in the United States department of the interior, national parks service
report entitled Old Spanish Trail National Historic Trail Feasibility Study and
Environmental Assessment, dated July 2001, and as further refined by the
secretary of the interior of the United States, where those routes travel on and
cross the highways of the state. The department of transportation may seek,
accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources for the
purposes of this section.