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HR 5729Mar 16, 2026Passed Chamber

What a yes vote endorsed

North Rim Restoration Act

What this does

This bill lets the National Park Service use emergency acquisition flexibilities under Federal Acquisition Regulation part 18, including higher micro-purchase and simplified acquisition thresholds, to contract for recovery work in the Grand Canyon area burned by the Dragon Bravo Fire, without a Presidential emergency or disaster declaration. That authority is limited to forest management, rebuilding, ground and structure improvements, and recovery efforts, and does not reach other services. It also lets the Secretary of the Interior award noncompetitive contracts to the concessioner currently operating the North Rim to rebuild employee housing, utilities, visitor facilities, and support assets, but only after the Secretary determines in writing that the concessioner is uniquely positioned and that sole-source procedures are necessary for public health, safety, or continuity of services. Both authorities expire seven years after enactment, and the emergency contracting authority ends earlier once recovery is complete. The Secretary must report to congressional committees every 180 days on recovery spending, contractors, and any waste, fraud, or abuse.

Passed the House by voice vote

How we know · 8 sourced claims
  • The bill lets the National Park Service use emergency acquisition flexibilities under Federal Acquisition Regulation part 18, including higher micro-purchase and simplified acquisition thresholds, to contract for recovery work in the Grand Canyon area burned by the Dragon Bravo Fire.Source: Sec. 3(a)
  • The authority applies without requiring a Presidential emergency or disaster declaration.Source: Sec. 3(a)
  • The emergency contracting authority is limited to forest management, rebuilding, ground and structure improvements, and recovery efforts, and does not reach other services.Source: Sec. 3(a)(1)-(4), Sec. 3(b)
  • The bill lets the Secretary of the Interior award noncompetitive contracts to the concessioner currently operating the North Rim to rebuild employee housing, utilities, visitor facilities, and support assets.Source: Sec. 4(a)
  • The Secretary may use the sole-source authority only after determining in writing that the concessioner is uniquely positioned and that noncompetitive procedures are necessary for public health, safety, or continuity of services.Source: Sec. 4(b)
  • Both authorities expire seven years after enactment, and the emergency contracting authority ends earlier once recovery is complete.Source: Sec. 3(e), Sec. 4(c)
  • The Secretary must report to congressional committees every 180 days on recovery spending, contractors, and any waste, fraud, or abuse.Source: Sec. 3(c)
  • Both operative sections serve the single subject of contracting authority to rebuild the Grand Canyon North Rim after the Dragon Bravo Fire.Source: Sec. 3, Sec. 4
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Reported lobbying

At least

2

organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 4 quarterly reports filed by 2 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

The organizations named

  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
  • BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPT AFL-CIO

Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.