The National Park Service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees primarily intended to improve parks across the country to cover costs associated with President Trump’s Independence Day celebration Thursday on the Mall, according to two individuals familiar with the arrangement. — The Washington Post
The move from the National Parks Service (NPS) comes as the department works to find funding to help ease its nearly $12 billion maintenance backlog.
NPS estimates that it needs over $2 billion to repair its building stock, as well as over $186 million to improve NPS-administered housing, for example. The department also estimates it would take $6 billion to fully repair the paved roads maintained across the National Parks System.
Congress is currently debating a plan to help provide some of this funding by directing royalties from energy development that occurs on federal lands and waters toward the backlog.
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