OLR Bill Analysis
sHB 5108 (as amended by House “A”) *
AN ACT PRESERVING CERTAIN HORSE TRAILS.
This bill requires the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) commissioner to preserve the following for equine use:
1. Larkin State Park trails (Southbury-Oxford-Middlebury);
2. Airline State Park trails - south and north (Colchester-Hebron-Lebanon-Windham-Hampton-Pomfret-Putnam);
3. Hop River State Park trails (Bolton-Coventry-Andover-Columbia);
4. Moosup Valley State Park trails (Sterling-Plainfield);
5. Huntington State Park trails;
6. Natchaug State Forest trails, and
7. Cockaponset State Forest trails.
The bill stipulates that (1) it does not prohibit the public's nonequine (other) uses of the specified trails and (2) DEP's preservation of these trails is not to be considered an expansion of them.
*House Amendment “A” adds Cockaponset State Forest Trails to the list of those to be preserved for equine use.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
COMMITTEE ACTION
Environment Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea |
29 |
Nay |
0 |
(03/13/2009) |