Title: National Park Service Transparency and Accountability Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
National Park Service Transparency and Accountability Act
This bill directs the National Park Service (NPS) to submit to Congress a report that contains: (1) an evaluation of its capital investment strategy, (2) a determination of whether the strategy is achieving its intended outcomes, and (3) any changes to the strategy that the NPS recommends to improve such outcomes.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1577 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1577

 To require the Secretary of the Interior submit a report to Congress 
  evaluating the Capital Investment Strategy and its results, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2017

    Ms. McSally (for herself, Mr. Gosar, and Mr. Franks of Arizona) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of the Interior submit a report to Congress 
  evaluating the Capital Investment Strategy and its results, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Park Service Transparency 
and Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) In fiscal years 2006 through 2015, the National Park 
        Service allocated, on average, $1,160,000,000 annually to 
        maintain assets. In fiscal year 2015, allocations to 
        maintenance accounted for about one-third ($1,080,000,000) of 
        the agency's total funding of $3,300,000,000. The largest 
        portion of maintenance funds in fiscal year 2015 was allocated 
        to facility operations, which includes maintenance that is 
        routine in nature, such as maintenance of trails.
            (2) The Park Service's deferred maintenance--maintenance of 
        its assets that was not performed when it should have been and 
        was delayed for a future time--averaged $11,300,000,000 from 
        fiscal years 2009 through 2015. Bridges, tunnels, and paved 
        roadways consistently made up the largest share of the agency's 
        deferred maintenance, accounting for half of all deferred 
        maintenance in fiscal year 2015. Older park units have the most 
        deferred maintenance, totaling $10,500,000,000 in fiscal year 
        2015 in park units established more than 40 years ago.

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    To ensure that the elements of the National Park Service process 
for making asset maintenance decisions is achieving desired outcomes, 
not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National 
Park Service, shall submit to the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate a report containing--
            (1) an evaluation of--
                    (A) the National Park Service Capital Investment 
                Strategy; and
                    (B) the results of the National Park Service 
                Capital Investment Strategy;
            (2) a determination of whether the National Park Service 
        Capital Investment Strategy is achieving its intended outcomes; 
        and
            (3) any changes to the National Park Service Capital 
        Investment Strategy that the Secretary recommends to improve 
        the outcomes of that strategy.
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