In 2016, three years from now, the National Park service is going to celebrate its centennial anniversary. While the creation of our National Park system is one of our countrys greatest successes, the park service aces significant funding challenges in taking care of the more than 400 National Parks, monuments, and other sites that congress and the president has entrusted to its protection. Now deferred maintenance backlog that is estimated at 11 billion, and it is perhaps higher. The backlog grows each year. Meanwhile, the park service, like every other part of the government, faces significant limitations on the funding that congress appropriated for the care of our National Parks. It is unlikely that the appropriation levels are going to increase anytime soon. Certainly not increased to the amount necessary that would fully address the deferred maintenance backlog. Given these challenges, senator murkowski and i wanted to schedule this hearing so that the committee can explore and c
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