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white cloud

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1. The Trump administration has already neutered the Great American Outdoors Act

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Fri Nov 20, 2020, 10:31 PM

Nov 2020

Well, that didn't take long.

Public lands advocates cheered this summer when the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), which guarantees permanent financial support for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), was passed. Now, just a few months later, a top official in the Trump administration is attempting to undercut that achievement by saddling the law with potentially ruinous restrictions.

U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt issued an order late last week that grants states veto power over the use of LWCF funds within their borders. The order also redirects control of LWCF funds away from Congress and grants them to the president. This sudden about-face comes on the heels of another disappointing development: the DOI's failure to file a list of LWCF projects for 2021 by the deadline established in the GAOA.

https://www.snewsnet.com/news/trump-administration-undercuts-great-american-outdoors-act

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