U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR • November 20, 2020
Signed into law earlier this year, the Great American Outdoors Act is working to address the historically underfunded, multi-billion-dollar deferred maintenance backlog at our national parks, American Indian schools and public lands in addition to funding new public access projects across the country through the LWCF. $9.5 billion over the next five years will be dedicated to tackling deferred maintenance needs, and $900 million per year into perpetuity will be invested from the LWCF for new conservation and recreation opportunities across the country from Maine’s Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge to California’s Death Valley National Park.