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This section designates the Route 66 National Historic Trail—a approximately 2,400-mile route from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, comprising all alignments of U.S. Highway 66 existing between 1926 and 1985, as generally depicted on map P26/141,279 dated December 2017—as a national historic trail (adding new para. (33) to 16 U.S.C. 1244(a), following redesignation of existing para. (31) as (32)). The trail is administered by the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park Service director, in a manner that respects its idiosyncratic nature and includes tribal consultation for substantially impacting activities. Land acquisition is limited to no more than an average of one-quarter mile on either side of the trail and requires owner consent outside federal areas; the provision further prohibits eminent domain or condemnation, buffer zones, restrictions on energy development (including pipelines and renewables), National Park System designation effects under specified mineral leasing laws, or requirements for new federal permits, while preserving existing federal, state, and local easement and right-of-way authorities. (National historic trails, components of the National Trails System, commemorate significant historic routes and are administered by federal agencies with cooperating nonprofits to promote preservation, recreation, and education, generally without broad federal land acquisition.)