National Park System Long-Term Lease Investment Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The National Park System Long-Term Lease Investment Act gives the Interior Department a targeted lease-extension authority for National Park System units. Acting through the National Park Service Director, the Secretary of the Interior may extend a lease entered under part 18 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, without complying with the usual sections 18.7 or 18.8 procedures if the lessee entered into the lease at least five years before the extension takes effect, is complying with the lease terms, and the Director determines that extension is in the best interests of administering the park unit. Interior must revise part 18 within 90 days to reflect the new authority. The bill benefits compliant park lessees seeking investment certainty while adding rulemaking and discretionary review duties for NPS.
Who Benefits and How
NPS commercial lessees benefit because compliant long-term leaseholders can receive extensions without going through the ordinary part 18 procedures. National Park units benefit if lease extensions support stable operations, visitor services, or facility investment judged to serve park administration. Park concession investors benefit from added certainty when deciding whether to invest in leased National Park System properties. National Park Service managers benefit from a discretionary tool for retaining useful lessees in the best interests of a park unit.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The National Park Service Director must determine whether each extension serves the best interests of the applicable park unit. Interior rulemaking staff must revise part 18 of title 36 within 90 days after enactment. Prospective replacement lessees may lose opportunities when an incumbent lease is extended without the usual procedures. Park accountability advocates must monitor whether extensions are used only for compliant lessees and park-administration interests.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes extensions of certain National Park System leases entered at least five years earlier.
- Requires lessees to be in compliance with existing lease terms before receiving an extension.
- Requires the NPS Director to find that the extension is in the best interests of the park unit.
- Exempts qualifying extensions from the usual part 18 sections 18.7 and 18.8 procedures.
- Directs Interior to revise lease regulations within 90 days.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Allows the Interior Secretary and National Park Service Director to extend certain compliant National Park System leases without the usual competitive lease procedures.
Key Policy Areas
Public Lands, National Parks, Leasing
Primary Purpose
Allows the Interior Secretary and National Park Service Director to extend certain compliant National Park System leases without the usual competitive lease procedures.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- NPS commercial lessees
- National Park units
- Park concession investors
- National Park Service managers
Identified Costs
- National Park Service Director
- Interior rulemaking staff
- Prospective replacement lessees
- Park accountability advocates
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeSubcommittee Hearings Held
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Mr. Murphy introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
NPS commercial lessees, Park concession investors, Prospective replacement lessees
Positive-direction: NPS commercial lessees, Park concession investors
Negative-direction: Prospective replacement lessees
Interior rulemaking staff, National Park Service Director
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
Learn more about our methodology