Senators announce national parks study will support more than 100,000 jobs over the next five years

U.S. senators including Mark Warner (D-VA) announced on Thursday that a new study of their Restore Our Parks legislation will support more than 100,000 jobs over the next five years to help address more than $12 billion in maintenance projects at the National Parks Service.

The Senate is set to consider S. 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act next week to address the deferred maintenance backlog across the federal land management agencies and to provide permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The Great American Outdoors Act includes the Restore Our Parks legislation. It is projected to provide up to $6.5 billion over five years to address delayed repairs to infrastructure and assets needs in the country’s national parks.