Bipartisan legislation proposed Thursday would authorize more money for a trust fund designed to repair and upgrade infrastructure in national parks and on other federal lands.
The bill would boost to $2 billion from $1.9 billion annually authorized funding for the legacy restoration fund created in the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act, and extend it until 2033. The fund aims to reduce the government’s enormous, deferred maintenance backlog, now estimated at more than $40 billion, to fix everything from roads to employee housing, on federal lands.
The legislation, dubbed the “America the Beautiful Act,” comes as Congress weighs potential sales ...