Crown Jewel National Parks Act

Crown Jewel National Parks Act - Requires the President to include with the annual Federal budget submitted to the Congress a separate statement of: (1) the amount of appropriations requested for priority funding for each national park; and (2) the reasons why priority funding is not requested for a national park.

[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 142 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 142

      To require the President to submit a separately identified 
  appropriation request to provide priority funding for the national 
          parks of the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

   Ms. Dunn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require the President to submit a separately identified 
  appropriation request to provide priority funding for the national 
          parks of the United States, 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 ``Crown Jewel National Parks Act''.

SEC. 2. PRIORITY FUNDING REQUESTS FOR NATIONAL PARKS.

    Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(32) a separate statement of the amount of appropriations 
        requested for priority funding for each national park, the 
        Crown Jewels of the National Park System, and a separate 
        statement setting forth the reasons why priority funding is not 
        requested for a national park (if any).''.
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