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Take Action: Support the Great American Outdoors Act

3/9/2020

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Tell your Senators to support a newly released bill, the Great American Outdoors Act, which combines the Restore Our Parks Act (to address deferred maintenance in our National Parks (S. 500)) and the Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act (S. 1081).

The Great American Outdoors Act, which was released last Friday night, is a bi-partisan bill with support from President Trump. Majority Leader McConnell has indicated that he will take it up on the floor in the coming days if it can gather strong enough support.

The 
Great American Outdoors Act:
  • Makes $1.9 billion available annually, for five years ($9.5 billion total) for maintenance projects with 70% allocated for National Park Service projects (same as originally proposed), 10% for the U.S. Forest Service, 10% for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 5% for Bureau of Land Management, and 5% for Bureau of Indian Education.
  • The Land and Water Conservation Fund section is almost identical to S. 1081 text, providing permanent, mandatory LWCF funding at the fully authorized annual amount of $900 million.
  • The only substantive change beyond the existing bills is an additional $3 billion for other public lands infrastructure dedicated over five years. 

Thank you Senators Kaine and Warner of Virginia for already signing on as co-sponsors!
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