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Doug Burgum: Federal Government Must Increase Access To Public Lands 'As Opposed To Reducing It'

Published | Video Starts at 01:30

How is the department addressing that to make sure that we're still taking care of the, the backlog and the maintenance issues at these parks that get millions of visitors a year? Well, I think one thing which we talked about earlier is the Encouraging this committee to support the reauthorization of [the Great American Outdoors Act], which included dollars for deferred maintenance. So that would be, is one piece. What you're describing, however, on the increase in the, you know, online purchase of the park passes. This is a, I say, relatively new phenomena. (01:30–01:39)

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