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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Yosemite National Park volition beryllium spending implicit $1.2 cardinal connected deferred attraction and repairs arsenic portion of a nationwide effort by the national authorities to support nationalist parks.
The backing comes from the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act, which established the National Parks Lands Legacy Restoration Fund. The money provides the National Park Service with up to $1.3 cardinal each twelvemonth for 5 years, oregon $6.5 cardinal full to code extended and agelong overdue repairs.
For Yosemite that means backing a task aimed astatine addressing captious failing electrical infrastructure by replacing oregon repairing a high-voltage enactment and its supporting metallic structures.
Officials accidental the funds are captious for completing large-scale projects connected a level that could not beryllium met done accustomed backing sources.
Work that volition beryllium carried retired astatine Yosemite National Park includes:
- Replacing transmission lines
- Repairing roads betwixt Badger Pass and Glacier Point
- Work connected the Crane Flat Campground
- Improving Ahwanee Hotel, including improving its seismic information standards
- Replacing Tuolumne Meadows Wastewater Plant
Of the projects, national officials accidental the astir costly is the $179 cardinal task rehabilitating the 45-year-old wastewater attraction works astatine El Portal, the largest wastewater attraction installation wrong the National Parks Service.
