3.0.0 886 2019-11-15T21:52:44Z 2019-11-15T21:52:44Z Senate S S 2005-04-21 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-04-21T22:22:52Z National Park Centennial Act 109 1124 HR 2005-03-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks. Related bill CRS 2005-04-21 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2005-04-21 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4131) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-04-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY N A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN 2005-04-21 True L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. 2005-04-21 True S001163 Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO] Ken Salazar D CO 2005-04-21 True F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2005-04-21 True D000294 Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] MICHAEL DEWINE R OH 2006-04-05 False D000596 Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN] MARK DAYTON D MN 2006-05-16 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Animals Anniversaries Appropriations Archaeology Archives Arts, Culture, Religion Checkoff Commemorations Commerce Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Cultural property Distance education Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Endangered species Environmental Protection Environmental monitoring Ethnology Federal aid to education Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Government trust funds Habitat conservation Historic sites History Income tax Landscape protection Maintenance and repair Minorities National parks Nature conservation Non-native species Overhead costs Park rangers Pest control Planning-programming-budgeting Pollution measurement Public-private partnerships Restoration ecology Science, Technology, Communications Scientific education Scientists Secondary education Sunset legislation Taxation Tourism Water quality Wildlife conservation Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2005-04-21 Introduced in Senate 2005-05-12T22:05:34Z National Park Centennial Act - Establishes the National Park Centennial Fund in the Treasury.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate overpayments and contributions for the benefit of the National Park System. Allocates such amounts to the Fund (along with necessary amounts from the General Fund to the extent that such amounts are inadequate in any fiscal year) for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior.

Authorizes appropriations for a public awareness campaign about the Fund and the ability of taxpayers to make tax-related contributions.

Requires a specified percentage of Fund deposits to be used: (1) for the elimination of the backlog of unmet needs in the national parks as identified in the Facility Condition Index of the National Park Service (NPS); (2) to protect natural resources within the parks; and (3) to protect cultural resources within the parks. Requires a majority of such percentages to be distributed to those national parks that have completed comprehensive business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the NPS.

Directs the Government Accountability Office annually to submit a report on the National Park System to specified congressional committees.

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to elementary and secondary schools for cooperative agreements with the NPS providing distance learning and onsite education programs.

]]> National Park Centennial Act Short Titles as Introduced National Park Centennial Act Display Title National Park Centennial Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to eliminate the annual operating deficit and maintenance backlog in the national parks, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2005-04-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s886is/xml/BILLS-109s886is.xml 2005-04-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.