Senate Nears Action on National Park Maintenance Backlog
The measure would restore nearly $2 billion a year for deferred maintenance and repairs at parks and other federal public lands.
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Senate Nears Action on National Park Maintenance Backlog
A congressional effort to spend nearly $10 billion on national park maintenance backlogs moved by unanimous vote to the full Senate on Wednesday, even as senators acknowledged hard problems remain to be solved. The co-authors of the America the Beautiful Act, Montana Republican Senator Steve Daines and Maine Independent Senator Angus King, jokingly broke ranks just before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted on their bill. Kin…
Bipartisan National Parks Bill Inspired by PERC Ideas Passes Senate Committee Unanimously
Legislation championed by Sen. Daines and Sen. King advances without opposition; bill draws directly on PERC research to tackle the park maintenance backlog BOZEMAN, Mont.—The America the Beautiful Act passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning without a single vote in opposition, marking a major step forward for legislation to maintain our national parks and public lands that the Property and Environment Resear…
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