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This final rule will implement the Visitor Experience Improvements Authority (VEIA) given to the NPS by Congress in Title VII of the National Park Service Centennial Act. The VEIA allows the NPS to solicit, award, and administer commercial services contracts for the improvement, modernization, and expansion of commercial visitor facilities and visitor services programs in units of the National Park System. The VEIA supplements but does not replace the existing authority granted to the NPS in the Concessions Management Improvement Act of 1998 (1998 Act) to enter into concession contracts or any other existing NPS authorities to provide commercial visitor services in units of the National Park System.

Overall Description of Deadline: The Visitor Experience Improvements Authority (VEIA) expires nine years after the enactment of the law (54 U.S.C. 101938). If the authority is not implemented by then, it will expire absent a renewal of the authority by Congress.