House Natural Resources Committee
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
Ongoing Visitor Experience Issues at America’s National Parks
On Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Examining Barriers to Access: Ongoing Visitor Experience Issues at America’s National Parks.”
Witness:- Charles F. Sams III, Director, National Park Service, Washington, DC
Despite significant additional resources provided by Congress over the last several years, the National Park Service (NPS) has failed to reduce their deferred maintenance (DM) backlog and develop a strategy to prevent increasing the DM backlog in the future.