LWCF state assistance-$200 million

• The Land and Water Conservation Fund fits naturally with the President's philosophy to shift initiatives to state and local governments while at the same time fulfilling national goals for investments in outdoor recreation resources.
• The Land and Water Conservation Fund is not a federal mandate, but rather a partnership program that allows the states to clearly set and achieve their own priorities within a national interest framework.
• The greatest benefits of the state share portion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund are in communities, towns, and counties across the nation in which hundreds of baseball fields have been built, thousands of family picnic areas installed, and tens of thousands of local park facilities developed.  Many of the lasting and positive benefits of the Land and Water Conservation Fund have been at the local level where LWCF projects have had direct and lasting impacts on health, disease prevention through active recreation, strengthening family and intergenerational bonds, and improving the quality of life in communities throughout America.

UPARR-$50 million

• Urban Park and Recreation Recovery grants fund parks and recreation projects in economically distressed.
• Many urban park systems, because of budget constraints, are unable to restore urban and recreation facilities up to local facility standards.
• Youth are at risk of having no positive place to go when local park recreation faclities are unusable due to disrepair or lack of critical restoration.
• UPARR gives economically distressed urban areas a 70% match towards restoration, renovating, and planning new programming.