# Special Programs

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Construction Table does not include supplemental  
**Source document:** National Park Service · p. 102  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/special-programs  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 31.9 |
| FY2027 | request | 20.1 |

## Interior discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $18.80B, FY2026 $17.30B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The Special Programs activity provides for the accomplishment of minor unscheduled and emergency construction projects, and for the inspection, repair, or replacement of equipment and facilities. This supports multiple critical needs throughout the National Park System, including: Addresses the preservation of resources and safety of the public and employees by funding unscheduled and emergency construction projects. These projects protect and preserve park resources and provide for safe and uninterrupted visitor use of facilities. Funding also addresses unforeseen construction contract claim settlements, provides necessary infrastructure for approved concessioner expansion projects, and ensures continuity of support and service operations. Constructs, maintains, improves, and replaces NPS-provided housing for NPS employees. Manages the risk to the safety of employees and the public, as well as safeguarding NPS cultural and natural resources. Dams and other streamflow control structures (levees, dikes, berms, elevated canal walls and plugs, as well as other similar miscellaneous structures) located on NPS lands require engineering risk-based analyses including inventories, inspections, assessments and initial corrective action planning. The FY 2027 budget does not request funding for this subactivity; these activities may be funded in the Operation of the National Park System appropriation. Addresses systematic replacement of automated, motorized, and fixed information technology equipment to support safe, efficient operations and visitor services throughout the National Park System. The FY 2027 budget does not request funding for this subactivity; these activities may be funded in the


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*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*