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Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 — Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A-39~ Olympic National Park, seen here above Brinnon, will receive a share of the $20 billion allocated by the Great American Outdoors Act after it passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Donald Trump last week. Journal photo Lloyd Mullen Boileitner kbox/eitner@masoncounty com The Great American Outdoors Act is offering roughly $20 billion to help National Parks, including Olympic National Park, across the U.S. get caught up on maintenance they’ve been forced to put off. How much money Olympic Na- tional Park might receive has yet to be determined. The Great American Outdoors Act passed the US. Senate 73-25 on June 17 and the U.'S. House of Rep- resentatives OK’d it 310-107 on July 22, before being signed into law by President Donald Trump on Aug. 4. This legislation provides full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and addresses the $20 billion deferred' maintenance backlog in the United States’ public lands, a category that includes National Parks, such as Olympic National Park. ’ Penny Wagner, public affairs spe- cialist for Olympic National Park, de- clined to speculate on which projects will be funded by the Great American ‘Outdoors Act, but she did point out that any projects that expect to be funded through this legislation must be submitted to Congress, which could take up to 90 days to complete. The category of “deferred mainte- nance” consists of more than $11 bil- lion of repairs and maintenance for roads, buildings, utility systems, and other structures and facilities across the National Park system that have been postponed for more than a year due to budget constraints. The National Park Service’s de— ferred maintenance increased by $313 million, or roughly 2.7 percent, in fiscal year 2018, which ran from October 2017 to September 2018. As of Sept. 30, 2018, the National Park Service’s total deferred main- tenance amounted to $11.92 billion, with $6.15 billion in paved roads and structures, and $5.77 billion in all its other facilities. Of the $427,633,898 in deferred maintenance for National Parks in Washington as of fiscal year 2018, Olympic National Park accounts for $126,501,263. This adds up to the second—highest amount of deferred maintenance for the three national parks in the state, after Mount Rain- ier National Park’s $186,278,440. Olympic National Park’s nearly $127 million in deferred mainte— nance makes up the bulk of its $152 million in estimated total mainte- nance needs as of fiscal year 2018, with $13 million in capital improve- ment costs and $12 million in other facility maintenance making up the remainder. Paved roads, buildings and other structures have the highest esti- mated maintenance needs by asset category at Olympic National Park, Far Post: Fall Cancellations continued from pageA-37 fraction of the size of the school’s football team. While the cost of frequent testing and increased sanitization is manageable with the financial resources of a professional league, the difference between pro and college is a fiscal chasm. Aside from a few big- name college programs, the schools simply don’t have the money to con- duct frequent testing and pay for increased cleaning and personal protective equipment for everyone that needs it. And that’s just foot- ball. Many other collegiate programs, which include women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s soc- cer in the fall, generate and operate on budgets a On Tuesday morning, the Big Ten Conference became the next domino and the first of the Pow- er 5 leagues to postpone football and all other fall sports to spring after a vote of the league’s presidents. The Fae-12 followed soon after. Now the spot— light turns to the Big I 12, Atlantic Coast and Southeastern confer- ences. The dominos are fall- ing quickly now, and they’re still picking up speed. I Justin Johnson is the Sports Outdoors Edi- tor of the Shelton-Mason County Journal. He can be reached by email at justin@masoncounty.com ’Wlth $93 million needed for paved roads ‘and structures, $23 million for buildings and $36 million for all remaining asset categories, the lat- ter including $9 million for driven—by trails and $6 million for wastewater systems. . Olympic National Park also has a $12 million annual routine main- tenance requirement, in addition to the aforementioned costs. All these categories of mainte- nance are meant to cover Olympic National Park’s 466 buildings, 78 housing units, 20 campgrounds, 117 miles of paved roads, 65 miles of un- paved roads, 619 miles of trails, 17 water systems, 16 wastewater sys- tems and 285 other assets, including Olympic park eyes‘maintenance money trail bridges, maintained landscapes, utility systems, marinas, maintained archeological sites, interpretive me- dia and amphitheaters. The projects in Olympic National Park’s current funding stream in- clude the rehabilitation of Olympic Hot Springs Road for $12,953,000; the realignment of 1 mile of that same road for $4,270,000; the re- placement of the log cabin wastewa- ter system drainfield for $1,184,000; the rehabilitation of the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center for accessibility, energy efficiency and fire safety for $911,000; and the demolition of the road beyond Metheny Creek Bridge, to include restoring it to its natural condition, for $833,000. ALLYN Case lnlet DAIE man (an) AM {‘M Emma“ . l3 l4 SHELTON |Oakland Bay am men am) Your local Tides For the week of AUGUST 13 through AUGUST 19,2020 mmmmmwm .mmmmmmmmmmmn wmmmmmmmmmmwn wmmmmmmmmnwwn mummmmmm-Iwmu wmmmmmmmmmmwn «mammmmmmmmwn [OW (FEED SUN MOON AM PM \ l [OW (FEED SUN MOON s; UNION [Hood Canal DAR HIGH (FEET) llde tables have been transcribed and may contain errors, Not intended for $ navigational use. 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