SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The National Park Service’s (NPS) 67,000 
park assets include over 17,000 buildings, 4,000 
housing units, 1,200 campgrounds, 3,000 water and 
waste water systems, 5,000 miles of paved roadways, 
and 18,000 miles of trails; in total, these facilities 
have a replacement value in excess of $100 billion. 
(2) The NPS’s maintenance backlog can be 
traced to two primary causes, the first being that 
new parks were added to the National Park System 
with facilities that were frequently in poor condition 
when transferred, and the second being that inad-
equate funding and staffing over a number of years 
caused routine maintenance to slip, slowly but stead-
ily causing minor problems to compound, leading to 
the need for major repairs and in some cases, new 
construction. 
(3) Over one-half of the backlogged infrastruc-
ture repair and rehabilitation projects fall under the 
category of roads and road-related infrastructure. 
(4) To now reverse the backlog which has 
grown to nearly $10 billion requires a concerted ef-
fort involving necessary repairs and full funding of 
cyclic and routine maintenance programs so that 
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new problems can be treated at the earliest possible 
stage. 
(5) Although the American Recovery and Rein-
vestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provided a much 
needed infusion of funds to kick-start repairs in a 
number of parks, the NPS has identified approxi-
mately $3.2 billion in highest priority critical system 
deferred maintenance projects (those projects most 
important to park operations) remaining. 
(6) Because the ARRA-funded projects have de-
pleted the number of shovel-ready projects that NPS 
had ready for construction, the NPS recommends 
that any funding increase should be phased in over 
several years in order to allow the NPS to rebuild 
its staff and support capacity. 
(7) The NPS identifies preventive maintenance 
as the key to slowing the growth of the maintenance 
backlog. 
(8) The NPS cyclic maintenance program is 
currently funded at about $100 million a year and 
is designed to perform preventive maintenance 
through roof repairs, painting, and road resealing. 
The NPS maintenance management system indi-
cates a need to increase this fund to $350 million 
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annually, an increase of $250 million from current 
levels. 
(9) The NPS warns that any gains made 
through increased cyclic maintenance efforts will be 
minimized unless additional park operational main-
tenance is also increased. 
(10) At the present time, the NPS has approxi-
mately 8,000 permanent and seasonal maintenance 
employees working within its 391 units. Virtually 
every park manager asserts that their current staff-
ing level is woefully insufficient to take on identified 
maintenance needs, and as a result, needed repairs 
go unaddressed, ultimately adding to an ever grow-
ing backlog. 
(11) Evaluations by outside groups and individ-
uals have routinely identified a 50 to 100 percent 
maintenance staffing shortfall in the parks they have 
visited. To increase maintenance staffing by 50 per-
cent would require an additional operational increase 
of $350 million a year. 
(12) The NPS estimates that in 4 to 6 months 
after funding is provided, it can prepare needed 
plans and complete most of its hiring efforts for ad-
ditional construction and maintenance work. 
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(13) With respect to National Forests, accord-
ing to the Wilderness Society, road removal and rec-
lamation, rather than road closings, are the best and 
most long-term solution to addressing the negative 
impacts of roads on forest ecosystems. With the 
proper training, roads and culverts can be reclaimed 
and slopes recontoured, using the very same exca-
vators, bulldozers, and dump trucks used to build 
the roads in the first place. 
(14) For rural communities, road removal and 
reclamation has the potential to create high-skill, 
high-wage, locally based jobs, to improve community 
water supplies, and to enrich fishing and hunting 
opportunities. Studies in Oregon and northern Cali-
fornia have shown that roadwork requiring heavy 
equipment tends to be more locally based than 
thinning and planting work, where crews often come 
from hundreds of miles away. 
(15) In the long run, the Forest Service esti-
mates that road and culvert reclamation would save 
taxpayers up to $1,200 per mile in reduced mainte-
nance costs annually. Additionally, each $1 million 
spent on road decommissioning will support an esti-
mated 11 direct jobs for heavy equipment operators 
and 3.5 jobs for other forest workers. 
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(16) While shovel-ready projects are good for 
rural communities, the environment, and ultimately 
for taxpayers, the reality is that the Forest Service 
currently has only a limited number of shovel-ready 
roads-related projects on which to begin work. To 
successfully allocate funding, the Forest Service 
needs to identify its minimum road system, design 
the engineering on projects to remove unneeded 
roads, and do the project level National Environ-
mental Policy Act analysis before it can break 
ground. Like shovel-ready projects, this necessary 
analysis work would also create family-wage, high- 
skilled, green jobs. 
SEC. 3. EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
The following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pro-
vide emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 
2010: 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation of the Na-
tional Park Service’’ for cyclic and routine maintenance 
and repair of visitor use, cultural resource, and other park 
use facilities, $1,250,000,000, to remain available until 
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September 30, 2014: Provided, That the amount under 
this heading is designated as an emergency requirement 
and necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to sec-
tions 403 and 423(b) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), 
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2010. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’ for 
major repairs and construction, $2,000,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2014: Provided, That 
the amount under this heading is designated as an emer-
gency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs 
pursuant to sections 403 and 423(b) of S. Con. Res. 13 
(111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget 
for fiscal year 2010. 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Capital Improvement 
and Maintenance’’ for road-related projects, including 
road decommissioning, $500,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2014: Provided, That at least 
$100,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this 
heading shall be for identifying a minimum road system 
for every national forest and grassland pursuant to section 
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212.5(b) of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, as in 
effect on December 10, 2009:
Provided further, That at 
least $100,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this 
heading shall be for inventorying, designing, engineering, 
and executing the work to decommission unauthorized 
roads: Provided further, The activities conducted under 
this heading may be carried out through contracting with 
private entities: Provided further, That the amount under 
this heading is designated as an emergency requirement 
and necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to sec-
tions 403 and 423(b) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), 
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2010. 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION 
HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Highway Infrastruc-
ture Investment’’ for the Park Roads and Parkways pro-
gram for critical park road and transportation-related in-
frastructure repairs and maintenance under section 204 
of title 23, United States Code, $1,000,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2014: Provided, That the 
amount under this heading is designated as an emergency 
requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs pur-
suant to sections 403 and 423(b) of S. Con. Res. 13 
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(111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget 
for fiscal year 2010. 
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