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| Above, Grand Canyon National Park has a maintenance backlog of $329 million. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Finally, some progress is being made to address the $16 billion backlog of maintenance projects of the Dept. of the Interior, of which $11 billion is for the national parks.
The Washington Examiner reported:
The House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill to make billions of dollars worth of repairs and maintenance in the country's national parks.
The bill, which moves now to the House floor, would pay for repairs with money the government collects from the development of oil, natural gas, wind, and solar energy on public lands.
It was co-sponsored by the committee’s chairman, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and top Democrat, Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona. They usually fight on public lands issues, but in this case, they agreed to a compromise that is similar to a Trump administration proposal to fund the Interior Department’s $16 billion maintenance backlog.
Of the $16 billion backlog, the National Park Service has the largest repair need — $11.6 billion in 2017 for the nation’s 417 national park sites.
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