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