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Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the burea ....
Test. Captioning performed by vitac with Glacier National park totaling 131 million and yellowstone National Park which we share with wyoming, i think the senators of wyoming say its more than a share, they have most of it in wyoming, that backlog is growing close to 600 million. I wouldnt be surprised if that number perhaps goes up even higher. If left unchecked there will be impacts in our Outdoor Economy, there will be impacts to our gateway communities like gardner, like cook city and like others. Thankfully congress is working together and taking action again with this bipartisan restore our parks act, and im grateful Ranking Member on the subcommittee angus king and i and the rest of the committee are working in a truly bipartisan fashion to put legislation ....
Alternates. Il call roll. Director forbes. Here. Director baptiste. Present. Why director lipkin. Why present. Director syed. Present. Director tumlin. Present. Chair gee. Here. Directors we have quorum. Am item 3 is communications. Wield like to note process for the public to comment. Members of the public may comment on the meeting during Public Comment period in person or remotely. The call in line as a courtesy and may be disrupted due to technical difficulties. In person comment will be taken first. Remote comment after. The public call in line is on the agenda and dialing strukdzs should be scrolling at the bottom of the screen on sfgovtv. Are there communications. Next item. Item 4 is board of directors now and old business im not aware of any. Next item. Directors. Item 5 is the executive directors report. Executive directo van de water is here were excited bring in items to you that we have been planning on for over 2 yea ....
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