H.R. 3212 would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust certain real property located within the boundaries of the original reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. The bill would modify the process that the Secretary uses to evaluate such property and would specify that any lands taken into trust on behalf of that tribe after September 9, 1988, would be considered part of its reservation.
Based on information from the Department of the Interior, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 3212 would have no significant effect on the federal budget; any change in the department’s administrative costs under the bill, which would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds, would not exceed $500,000 in any year.
Enacting H.R. 3212 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 3212 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.
H.R. 3212 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.
On December 22, 2015, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 818, a bill to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, and for other purposes, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on November 18, 2015. The two pieces of legislation are similar and CBO’s estimates of the budgetary effects are the same.