[3] It has two major components: fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million per year, and providing $9.5 billion over five years ($1.9 billion annually) to address a maintenance backlog at American national parks, including updating facilities to increase accessibility for the general public.

[10] The $900 million dedicated to the LWCF is shared between state and local governments, National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S.

[11] When the GAOA was enacted in 2020, the Department of the Interior Task Force, composed of members from the BLM, NPS, FWS, Bureau of Indian Affairs and other organizations established goals to ensure proper use of the funding.

[12] These goals are focused on supporting the public and employees when visiting and working in these natural spaces, as well as discovering new ways these places can be used in the future, like creating new jobs and reducing the effects of climate change.

[14] In 2018, the NPS appraised the maintenance backlogs to be $11.9 billion, caused by wear and tear from a rapidly increasing amount of visitors to the parks every year.

[27] The New York Times reported that some Democrats believed that Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, only allowed debate on the bill in order to support the 2020 re-election efforts of Gardner and Steve Daines (R–MT).

[31] A few examples of completed projects are the Intermountain Region Restoration,[32] Reviving Treasured Trails of Montana,[33] and Repaired Big Four Ice Cave Bridge.