HR. 2606 "authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to allow the construction and operation of natural gas pipeline facilities in the Gateway National Recreation Area." That this bill was even being considered was virtually unknown by users of the park and the constituents of those sponsoring the bill.
The National Park Service giving historic hangars at Floyd Bennett Field to the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company for an industrial metering and regulating station is such an egregiously inappropriate use of national park land that this legislation was needed to specifically allow what would otherwise be prohibited by the law that created Gateway National Recreation Area and NPS’s own management policies.
HR 2606 sets a precedent that threatens ALL national parks with industrial use.