# 116-hr-4236: Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

116-hr-4236, Reducing Waste in National Parks Act, is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] (D-IL); status Subcommittee Hearings Held. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-4236
- Congress: 116
- Title: Reducing Waste in National Parks Act
- Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Introduced: 2019-09-06
- Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] (D-IL)
- Cosponsors: 32
- Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Reducing Waste in National Parks Act This bill directs each regional office of the National Park Service (NPS) to establish a program to recycle and reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles within each NPS unit located in its region. NPS regional offices may eliminate the sale of water in disposable plastic bottles within their NPS units after having considered several specified factors. Where, prior to enactment of this bill, an NPS unit does not offer water for sale in disposable plastic bottles, the unit may continue that practice if it submits to the regional office an evaluation of those factors. NPS regional offices shall develop for each NPS unit a proactive visitor education strategy to address visitor expectations of water availability and explain the rationale for the program.

## Cosponsors (32)

- Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (D-ME), 2020-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] (D-TN), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] (D-NY), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8] (D-IL), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (D-OR), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ] (D-AZ), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] (D-VA), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2] (D-NH), 2019-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1] (D-HI), 2019-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] (D-OR), 2019-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-8] (D-NJ), 2019-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1] (D-NH), 2019-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6] (D-IL), 2019-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7] (D-NY), 2019-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8] (D-CA), 2019-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-4] (D-CA), 2019-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18] (D-CA), 2019-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36] (D-CA), 2019-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA), 2019-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4] (D-NC), 2019-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2019-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11] (D-NJ), 2019-12-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-31] (D-CA), 2019-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14] (D-IL), 2020-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA), 2020-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2020-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7] (D-MA), 2020-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25] (D-NY), 2020-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Malinowski, Tom [D-NJ-7] (D-NJ), 2020-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

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- 116-hr-7120: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020
- 116-hr-2420: National Museum of the American Latino Act
- 116-hr-2382: USPS Fairness Act
- 116-hr-1980: Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act
- 116-hr-1773: Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019

## Sources
- [116-hr-4236 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4236)

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