Recreational Trails Program

LATEST UPDATES

07/14/2009—View BRC's Latest RTP Reauthorization Action Alert
07/10/2009—View Latest Letter: Support the Recreational Trail Program
Read the latest "Dear Colleague" letter to be sent to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee initiated by U.S. Representatives Mike Michaud (D-ME) and Tom Petri (R-WI)

Background Information

The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) is an assistance program of the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Federal transportation funds benefit recreation by making funds available to the States to develop and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities for both non-motorized and motorized recreational trail uses.

Reauthorization of the Recreational Trails Program

As remarkably successful as RTP has been, right now there is a very real threat that this program could disappear by the end of 2009 unless we all band together and take action. The BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) has been working side by side with all the members of the Coalition for Recreational Trails (CRT) to educate legislators on the importance of the program and to seek champions to sponsor RTP in Congress. We need your help in this effort to ensure the Recreational Trails Program is part of the next highway bill.

As a member of the CRT, BlueRibbon is asking every one of its member clubs and organizations to lend their shoulder to this task. Letters will be sent and calls will be made by the CRT on an ongoing basis to Congress members and key members of the administration. As of June, 186 organizations have signed on in support of the first letter sent to key Congressional members. CRT would like to have over 500 organizations signed on in support. BRC has enough member organizations to meet and even exceed that goal. Here is where your club can really make a difference. Please help by signing on using the form below.

Coalition for Recreational Trails Reauthorization Sign-on Letter

My organization would like to sign on to the Coalition for Recreational Trails letters that will be sent to key members of the U.S. Congress regarding reauthorization of the Recreational Trails Program in the upcoming multi-year surface transportation legislation and inclusion of funding for this important program in the amount of $550 million, over a five-year period.

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