Good to see some information on the National Park Service. Here are two brief (~ 2 pages) CRS reports is from Laura B. Comay: 'National Park Service: FY2020 Appropriations' and 'National Park Service: FY2021 Appropriations'.
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1) Download CRS_InFocus_NPS_Appropriations_FY2020
The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Park System, which includes 421 units valued for their natural, cultural, and recreational importance and covers 85 million acres (81 million acres of federal land and 4 million nonfederal). As an agency in the Department of the Interior, NPS receives funding in annual appropriations laws for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. This CRS product discusses NPS’s FY2020 appropriations; for information on FY2021, see CRS In Focus IF11661, National Park Service: FY2021 Appropriations.
P.L. 116-94, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, was enacted on December 20, 2019. The act provided $3.377 billion for NPS, 5% more than the enacted FY2019 regular appropriation of $3.223 billion. It included increases for five NPS accounts and a reduction for one account, as compared with the FY2019 regular appropriation (Table 1).
FY2020 appropriations in P.L. 116-94 were 23% higher than the Trump Administration’s request of $2.742 billion. The enacted discretionary appropriation exceeded the Administration’s request for each NPS budget account.
In addition to discretionary appropriations, NPS reported mandatory appropriations for FY2020 of $0.741 billion, an increase of 1% over NPS mandatory funding for FY2019. These mandatory appropriations come from entrance and recreation fees, concessioner fees, donations, and other sources, and they are used for a variety of specified purposes, including deferred maintenance.
In earlier action, on June 25, 2019, the House had passed H.R. 3055, an FY2020 consolidated appropriations bill with $3.362 billion for NPS (also see H.Rept. 116-100 on H.R. 3052, an earlier stand-alone House Interior bill). On October 31, 2019, the Senate had passed its version of H.R. 3055, with $3.356 billion for NPS (also see S.Rept. 116- 123 on S. 2580, a Senate stand-alone bill). Because FY2020 appropriations were not enacted by the start of the fiscal year, two continuing resolutions, P.L. 116-59 and P.L. 116- 69, provided continuing appropriations at FY2019 levels prior to enactment of P.L. 116-94.
Next - FY2021 report.
2) Download CRS_InFocus_NPS_Appropriations_FY2021
The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Park System, which includes 421 units valued for their natural, cultural, and recreational importance. System lands cover 81 million federal acres and 4 million nonfederal acres. As part of the Department of the Interior,NPS receives funding in annual appropriations laws for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. Selected issues for Congress include the to tall evel of NPS appropriations, funding to address NPS’s backlog of deferred maintenance (DM), and funds for NPS as assistanceton on federal entities.
The Trump Administration requested $2.793billion in FY2021 discretionary appropriations for NPS.The request was 17% less thanNPS’s FY2020 appropriation of $3.377 billion, enacted in P.L. 116-94. The request included reductions for all NPS accounts as compared with FY2020. NPS’s budget justification also estimated $0.749 billion in mandatory appropriations for NPS for FY2021, an increase of 1% overestimated NPS mandatory funding forFY2020. These mandatory appropriations come fromentrance and recreation fees, concessioner fees, donations, and other sources. In July 2020, the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA; P.L. 116-152) established additional mandatory spending for NPS, including a fund to address agency DM needs. The GAOA also designated, as mandatory spending, agency funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF; 54 U.S.C. §200301),previously provided through discretionary appropriations.
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