Editor's note: This corrects to show that Valley Forge, not Gettysburg, is targeted for upgrades to its visitor's center.

President Obama's budget request for the 2016 fiscal year seeks $3 billion for the National Park Service, an increase of $432.9 million from current funding levels. That request seeks hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure needs, such as renovations to the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park and for safety, efficiency, and access upgrades to the visitor's center at Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania.

While the Democrat's budget proposal generally is dead on arrival in the Congress, the request for the National Park Service could be treated favorably by the Republican-controlled chambers as 2016 marks the centennial of the agency.

"In 2016, the National Park Service will celebrate its Centennial by inviting hundreds of millions of Americans to find their park by visiting a park and sharing their favorite park story,” Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said in prepared remarks. “This budget will prepare the National Park Service to ensure that every one of those visitors has a wonderful and safe experience.”

Concerning the Park Service Centennial specifically, the president's request seeks $326.3 million to ready the agency and its 405 units for the celebration. The bulk of that amount, $242.8 million, is earmarked for deferred maintenance needs related to 6,735 projects across the system. Another $43.5 million is targeted to expand volunteer opportunities in the parks, introduce urban youth to the park system, boost seasonal staff, and help launch new park units authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 that Congress passed in the closing weeks of last year.

Among the deferred maintenance needs mentioned by the budget were:

* $43 million for the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C., to install irrigation, drainage, water collection system, and re-landscape National Mall;

* $11.5 million for Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida to stabilize bastions 1, 2, and 3 of Fort Jefferson;

* $16 million for Glacier National Park in Montana to correct critical health and safety hazards in the Many Glacier Hotel Lobby and South Bridge;

* $7.1 million for Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina to rehabilitate the Wright Brothers visitor center;

* $15.4 million for Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming to protect public health by replacing water and waste water systems at Moose headquarters area, and;

* $9.4 million for Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to provide seismic stabilization of lobby, porte cochere, and map room of the Mammoth Hotel.

"The President's request contains all the elements necessary for those of us who tend to America's Best Idea to repair an ageing infrastructure, respond to climate change, host school field trips, and provide rangers to greet nearly 300 million visitors with the highest standard of public service," Director Jarvis said.

The budget request also includes $40 million to provide the federal match for NPS Centennial Challenge projects and programs at national parks, "to catalyze creative initiatives to improve visitor services, support outreach to new audiences, and leverage partnerships to reinvigorate the parks while forging connections with communities. This will build on the 2015 appropriation of $10 million for matching projects. This is also complemented by a mandatory proposal to provide $100 million annually over three years for the Centennial Challenge to complete signature projects and programs with partners."

Another $16 million is requested for the agency's Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, "including $3.5 million for climate-change adaptation projects, $1.3 million for oceans and coastal resource stewardship, $1.2 million for coordinated science-based response to energy development, and $10 million for climate change resiliency projects to be matched on a 50:50 basis with non-federal partners under the Challenge Cost Share authority."

At the National Park Foundation, interim President Dan Wenk said the budget request "contains vital support for expanding the use of parks for experiential learning and recreation, engaging hundreds of thousands of volunteers, repairing aging infrastructure, dedicating resources to ensuring the parks are safe spaces where all narratives can be shared, telling America’s proudest moments and reflecting on America’s struggles, and connecting urban communities with their national parks."

"We are also pleased that the proposed budget acknowledges the importance of public-private partnerships, such as those leveraged by the National Park Foundation and local Friends Groups, with its inclusion of the federal match for National Park Service Centennial Challenge projects and programs," he added in a prepared statement. "We look forward to working with individuals and organizations to make these matches come to fruition for our national parks.”