While Glacier National Park needs some $200 million to repair its "crumbling roads, historic buildings and sewage systems," it is working on a pair of $1 million outhouses, reported USA Today in its cover story Monday.
The pricey outhouses, the paper said, are an example of how lawmakers in Washington "often trim [National] Park Service construction requests but then turn around and fund their own pet projects."
The "state-of-the-art," solar-powered restrooms will allow the NPS to reopen popular hiking chalets that had been closed in 1992 due to faulty septic systems -- "a problem that forced park employees to dump human waste into the park," according to USA Today.
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