The House Natural Resources Committee will meet Friday to discuss legislation to reauthorize expired portions of the landmark 2020 Great American Outdoors Act.
Ahead of the Friday hearing — which will take place in Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park in Chair Bruce Westerman’s district — the committee unveiled a discussion reauthorization bill, titled the “Great American Outdoors Act 250.”
The bill would revamp the Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), a major maintenance fund for the National Park Service and other public lands established in the Great American Outdoors Act signed into law by President Donald Trump during his first term.
The 2020 outdoors law has enjoyed broad support. And reauthorization of the maintenance fund, which expired in September, has been a bipartisan priority. A reauthorization bill in the Senate has over 60 co-sponsors from both parties.
