On Friday, the U.S.House Committee on Natural Resources’ ranking member, Rep.Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona), and five other Democrats formally introduced a new bill in an effort to bring more funding to national parks,.Park funding through the Obama administration’sNational Park Service Centennial Act would be granted in celebration of the National ParkService’s (NPS) 100th anniversary next year, .
.’s bipartisan Centennial Bill is great for ! Now Congress should act
— National Parks News (@NPCA)
The bill would give NPS up to$1.5 billionover three years for park repairsand upgrades.(The NPS has$11.5 billion in deferred maintenance projects.)The money would also be used to increase educational programsand establish services for visitors, includinglodging and dining, as reported in theHill.
According to Environment & Energy Publishing, many expectthe additional federal funding tobe a challenge to sell inCongress.
In Other News
- On Friday, UK Athleticsin its recent independent audit. The audit was in response to a doping scandal involvingNike running coach Alberto Salazar. “Coaching and support for Mo Farah [Olympic and world champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, who was coached by Salazar] will remain the focus of our engagement with the Oregon Project,”said the statement.
- Residents from American Samoa,Louisiana,Minnesota, New Hampshire, and New York startingin 2016. The restriction is part of the Real ID Act, which will require residents of those five states to show another form ofID, such as a passport, permanent resident card, or U.S. military ID.
- On Thursday, Sandy Hill (previouslySandy Pittman) how she was portrayed inthe newfilm Everest.Pittmansurvived the 1996 blizzard on Everest and is depicted in boththe movieand Jon Krakauer’s book,Into ThinAir,on which the film is based. “I was an easy target,”she told theNew York Post. “Back in those days, you could get away with destroying someone’s life and flogging them with innuendo.”Everestpremiers on Friday.
- A man in western Colorado was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday for into theUncompahgre National Forest in Telluride, Colorado.
UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 17:00 MDT:An earlier version of this piece stated that a Colorado man was littering in Delta, Colorado. He was littering inTelluride.