In Wyoming last year, 7.7 million park visitors spent an estimated $928 million in local gateway regions while visiting National Park Service lands in Wyoming.
Scott dismissed any concerns about the constitutionality of his proposal, saying the idea is to help out the federal government, citizens and the tourism industry.
The park service received more than 109,000 comments on the proposal, most of them opposed, during a two-month comment period that ended in late December.