1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to natural resources; extending the Casey Jones State Trail; amending 
1.3 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 85.015, subdivision 2.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 85.015, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.6 		Subd. 2.Casey Jones Trail, Murray, Redwood, and Pipestone Counties. (a) The 
1.7 	trail shall originate in Lake Shetek State Park in Murray County and include the six-mile 
1.8 	loop between Currie in Murray County and Lake Shetek State Park. From there, the first 
1.9 	half of the trail shall trail southwesterly to Slayton in Murray County; thence westerly to 
1.10 	the point of intersection with the most easterly terminus of the state-owned abandoned 
1.11 	railroad right-of-way, commonly known as the Casey Jones unit; thence westerly along 
1.12 	said Casey Jones unit to Pipestone in Pipestone County; thence southwesterly to Split 
1.13 	Rock Creek State Park in Pipestone County, and there terminate. The second half of the 
1.14 	trail shall commence in Lake Shetek State Park in Murray County and trail northeasterly to 
1.15 	Walnut Grove in Redwood County and there terminate; thence northeasterly to Redwood 
1.16 	Falls in Redwood County to join with the Minnesota River State Trail.
1.17 	(b) The trail shall be developed as a multiuse, multiseasonal, dual treadway trail. 
1.18 	Nothing herein shall abrogate the purpose for which the Casey Jones unit was originally 
1.19 	established, and the use thereof shall be concurrent.