Dear Congress: Please Support The National Park Service Legacy Act, S. 751

​The National Park Service (NPS), which turned 100 years old last year, manages more than 400 national park units--iconic landscapes, historic and cultural sites, trails, military battlegrounds, monuments, and memorials--throughout the country.

As a result of aging facilities, strain on resources caused by increased visitation and unreliable funding, NPS has been unable to keep pace with park infrastructure repairs. Based on 2015 data, the agency estimates it would cost nearly $12 billion if it were to fix all of the items on its deferred maintenance list.
Senator Warner (D-VA) has introduced bipartisan legislation, the National Park Service Legacy Act, that would provide dedicated annual federal funding to national park deferred maintenance needs, ensuring that parks continue to preserve our nation’s heritage and recreation opportunities, and that local communities who depend on park visitors for revenue will continue to flourish.

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Did you know Louisiana's National Parks generate over $28 million in tourism revenue annually?

Did you know Louisiana's National Parks have an estimated $15 million worth of deferred maintenance?

The National Park Service Legacy Act would:

•   Establish a federal fund in the U.S. Treasury—named the “National Park Service Legacy Fund”--to draw down the national park maintenance backlog.
•   The Fund would be financed using revenues from the on-shore and off-shore production of oil, gas, coal, and other mineral operations that are not already allocated by law to other programs.
•   Monies would ramp up over time, based on the schedule below, to address high- priority national park deferred maintenance needs:
  (1) $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018, 2019, and 2020 (2) $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023 (3) $250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026 (4) $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2047
•   Eighty percent of the Fund would be used for the repair and rehabilitation of NPS assets including: historic structures, visitor facilities, trails, water utility systems, and assets that impact disability access, health and safety, and recreation.
•   Twenty percent of the Fund would be used to restore transportation-related infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, and tunnels.
•   Prohibit allocated funds from being used for land acquisition or to replace discretionary funding for NPS facility operations and maintenance needs.
•   Protect the authority of Congress by requiring review of proposed maintenance projects by appropriate committees.
•   Promote public-private collaboration by incentivizing projects which have a private donation cost-share component. 

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