I need some help from riders who will take some time to send out an email to their Senators.
The Recreational Trails Program ( RTP)is in danger of being taken away by the Feds who are in dire need of money ( who ain't!?) to balance the budget. But it's our gas taxes that fund this program and if this MAP-21 bill is passed , our money will simply go away.

All the trail refurb and new bridges at Sam Houston NF were paid for by RTF. Childress? That park was funded by RTF. Ridden at Trophy Club or Bridgeport near DFW? Thats RTF. Moss Creek at Big Spring? RTF. So many more...PLEASE help - here's how...
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The key messages are simple:

• Unless the bill is changed, MAP-21 will effectively eliminate the Recreational Trails Program

Please amend MAP-21 to include dedicated funding for RTP.


• For the last two decades, RTP has received a portion of the gas taxes paid by users of off-highway motorized vehicles to fund trail building, maintenance and other trail-related projects. More than 13,000 projects have been funded across the country for all kinds of trail uses. This is a very successful program.

• At its current level of annual funding – $85 million – RTP receives less than 42% of the Federal Highway Administration’s conservative estimate of the federal gas taxes paid by America’s non-highway recreationists. The Senate bill would reduce that percentage to zero and represents a substantial new tax on motorized recreation enthusiasts.

• The return of gas taxes to trail users through the RTP is in keeping with the user-pay, user-benefit philosophy of the Highway Trust Fund. Ending dedicated funding for RTP takes these gas taxes away from the people who pay them. Ending dedicated funding for RTP is bad public policy and just plain wrong.

• The RTP is the foundation of our state trail program. If the RTP loses its dedicated funding, organized trail planning and development will simply vanish in this state.

Now is the time to act. Write, email or call your Senators. Here’s a link if you need it: http://www.senate.gov/.
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Cut and paste - flood their inboxes!!!
Or see the ARRA website - all info is there too!

THANKS!!!!! Your NOHVCC state partner, Carol L Smith