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H.R. 3768: Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

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H.R. 3768: Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-09-13 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-09-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

Plain summary

Reducing Waste in National Parks Act This bill directs each regional director of a region of the National Park System (NPS) to establish a program to recycle and reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles within each NPS unit located in its region. Regional directors may eliminate the sale of water in disposable plastic bottles within their NPS units after having considered several specified factors. Where an NPS unit is not offering water for sale in disposable plastic bottles, the superintendent of the unit may continue that practice, upon submission of an evaluation of those factors. Each regional director who establishes and implements such a program shall develop for each affected NPS unit a proactive visitor education strategy to address visitor expectations of water availability and explain the rationale for the program.

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Official text

Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · 29 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), James A. Himes (D-CT), John Garamendi (D-CA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] reported raising $998,074 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr3768 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115