H.R. 1949 would amend the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 to make the Secretary of Agriculture responsible for reviewing and approving site and design proposals for the National Liberty Memorial in Washington, D.C. Under current law, either the Secretary of the Interior or the Administrator of General Services Administration will oversee the site and design approval process for that memorial, pursuant to the Commemorative Works Act.
CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1949 would have no significant impact on the federal budget because it would just shift certain responsibilities from one agency of the government to another. Enacting H.R. 1949 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
H.R. 1949 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.
