The House Wednesday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan conservation legislation that many in Congress and the Trump administration hope will boost an ailing economy because of the shovel-ready outdoor and infrastructure projects it will fund.
It passed 310-107.
The Great American Outdoors Act (H.R. 1957) would provide full, mandatory funding at $900 million a year for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, meaning the program would no longer be subject to the annual appropriations process.
LWCF pays for federal land acquisition as well as parks, wildlife refuges, ball fields and other conservation projects in states and ...
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