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handle is hein.crs/govehiq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional Research Service inkurming the legislative debdte since 1914 National Park Service: FY2021 Appropriations The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Park System, which includes 423 units valued for their natural, cultural, and recreational importance. System lands cover 81 million federal acres and 4 million nonfederal acres. As part of the Department of the Interior (DOI), NPS receives funding in annual appropriations laws for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. This CRS product discusses NPS's FY2021 appropriations; for information on FY2022, see CRS In Focus IF11928, National Park Service: FY2022 Appropriations. FY202 I Appropriations P.L. 116-260, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, was enacted on December 27, 2020. It contained $3.123 billion for NPS, 8% less than the enacted FY2020 regular appropriation of $3.377 billion in P.L. 116-94. The act included increases for some NPS accounts compared with FY2020 (Table 1) but decreased or eliminated funding for two accounts, both covering activities that received mandatory appropriations in the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA; P.L. 116-152), enacted in August 2020. FY2021 appropriations in P.L. 116-260 were 12% higher than the Trump Administration's request of $2.793 billion. The enacted discretionary appropriation exceeded the Administration's request for all but one NPS account. In addition to discretionary appropriations, NPS reported mandatory appropriations for FY2021 of $1.033 billion, an increase of 82% over NPS mandatory funding for FY2020. The increase was largely due to changes enacted in the GAOA, which designated as mandatory spending agency funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF; 54 U.S.C. §200301), previously provided through discretionary appropriations. Other NPS mandatory appropriations come from entrance and recreation fees, concessioner fees, donations, and other sources. NPS's mandatory total does not include NPS's share from the deferred maintenance fund established by the GAOA, which is recorded as a separate allocation from a DOI department-wide account. In earlier action, on July 24, 2020, the House passed H.R. 7608, an FY2021 consolidated appropriations bill with $3.224 billion for NPS (also see H.Rept. 116-448 on H.R. 7612, an earlier stand-alone House Interior bill). On November 10, 2020, the Senate Committee on Appropriations released a draft bill with $3.122 billion for NPS. Because regular FY2021 appropriations were not enacted by the start of the fiscal year, several continuing Updated October 12, 2021 resolutions provided funding at FY2020 levels before enactment of P.L. 116-260. N PS's Appropriations Accounts NPS had six budget accounts in FY2021, but one account- Land Acquisition and State Assistance-did not receive discretionary appropriations (Figure 1 and Table 1). About 86% of NPS's FY2021 discretionary appropriations went to the Operation of the National Park System (ONPS) account to support day-to-day activities, programs, and services at park units, including resource stewardship, visitor services, park protection, facility operations and maintenance, and administrative costs. The FY2021 appropriation for the ONPS account was $2.688 billion; the Administration had requested $2.517 billion. Source: Joint explanatory statement, P.L. 116-260. Notes: ONPS = Operation of the National Park System. NR&P = National Recreation & Preservation. Figure does not show rescissions. The next-largest amount, 7% of the regular appropriation, went to NPS's Construction account, which covers rehabilitation and replacement of existing facilities as well as new construction. NPS prioritizes deferred maintenance in project planning. Projects are evaluated based on department-wide criteria related to the condition of assets and their importance to the park's purposes. The account also covers other construction activities and planning. P.L. 116-260 appropriated $223.9 million for the NPS Construction account for FY2021; the Administration's request was $192.6 million.

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