Grand Canyon changes budget to repay $100M loan

By Felicia Fonseca

Published September 24, 2014 7:47pm ET

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Grand Canyon changes budget to repay $100M loan — FILE - This Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, the Grand Canyon National Park is covered in the morning sunlight as seen from a helicopter near Tusayan, Ariz. An effort by the Grand Canyon to make a lucrative contract more attractive to bidders means the park will defer planned spending on new lighting, cave monitoring, building a composting toilet and tracking an endangered fish that recently reappeared in the canyon, it was announced Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) | AP/Julie Jacobson, File

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Grand Canyon is imposing millions of dollars in cuts to make a concessions contract more attractive to bidders.

The cuts include cave monitoring, parking lot lighting, a children’s nature program and preventative search and rescue.

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