Environment Committee
AN ACT PRESERVING CERTAIN HORSE TRAILS
SUMMARY: This act requires the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) commissioner to preserve the following trails for equine use:
1. Larkin State Park trails (Southbury, Oxford, and Middlebury);
2. Airline State Park trails - south and north (Colchester, Hebron, Lebanon, Windham, Hampton, Pomfret, and Putnam);
3. Hop River State Park trails (Bolton, Coventry, Andover, and Columbia);
4. Moosup Valley State Park trails (Sterling and Plainfield);
5. Huntington State Park trails;
6. Natchaug State Forest trails, and
7. Cockaponset State Forest trails.
The act stipulates that (1) it does not prohibit other public uses of the specified trails and (2) DEP's preservation of these trails is not to be considered an expansion of them.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
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