Report: USNPS allows Environmental Learning Centers to offer weddings, other impermissible events

The National Park Service (NPS) has been allowing nonprofits to offer weddings, yoga and other activities that are "outside the scope" of their agreements with the government, an internal watchdog has found.

The NPS has partnered with nonprofit organizations to operate Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) to provide educational services to the public, according to an Interior Department inspector general's report dated last week.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/475966-watchdog-nps-wrongly-allows-nonprofits-to-offer-expensive-weddings

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