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ADVOCACY

Keep Pressuring Congress
About LWCF Reauthorization
By Kyle Simpson

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rom green space to boat ramps, splashpads, playgrounds and urban gardens, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped
park departments across the country purchase and improve outdoor recreation space in every congressional district in every
state. Now is the time to learn more about the Land and Water Conservation Fund and about some easy steps to ensure that this program continues.

What Is the Land and Water
Conservation Fund?
The Land and Water Conservation
Fund, or LWCF as it is commonly
called, provides financial resources
for both federal and local recreation
projects from the revenue generated
from oil and gas leases on federal
land. On the federal side, this money is used for land acquisition and is

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largely responsible for the expansion
of trails, parks and other recreation
spaces. The portion of the fund that is
most important to NRPA members,
however, is the State and Local Assistance Grants, or stateside grants,
which have provided $3.6 billion in
federal funds to every state, territory
and the District of Columbia.
The stateside grants begin with

states engaging both their residents
and state leaders to determine their
outdoor recreation assets and needs,
and to determine, as a state, the priorities and goals for increasing outdoor
recreation. Based on these goals,
states allocate the money received
each year from the federal government to state projects, as well as to
funding projects at the local park and
recreation level. The allocation that
a state receives is based on a formula
that uses state population as the largest determining factor.
Deadlines, criteria and selection
vary slightly from state to state,
but one major requirement for
projects is that the funding must
be matched at a 1:1 level by local
funding. This funding requirement
has been a core component of the
program and is often met by using
private and public funds.
Within LWCF, there is also a grant
program that specifically targets more
urban areas. The Outdoor Recreation
Legacy Partnership (ORLP), created
in 2014, is a fund that is distributed
through a nationally competitive program to cities with more than 50,000
people. ORLP grants are larger in size
than the standard stateside grants and
are designed to go to economically
disadvantaged urban areas where opportunities for outdoor recreation are
limited, but they also require the local
dollar-for-dollar funding match. This
program has been successful in connecting underserved communities to
nature in our most urban areas.



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