Playground Daily News. August 15, 1968. p. On July 15, 2015, Gabbard acquired the Friend of the National Parks Award from the National Parks Conservation Association. Gabbard productively handed an amendment to the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that would have to have the Department of Energy to reexamine the safety of the Runit Dome, a leaking Cold War era nuclear waste web page in the Marshall Islands.