H.R. 88 would revise the boundary of the Shiloh National Military Park in Mississippi to include three additional Civil War battlefield areas over approximately 2,100 acres. The legislation stipulates that the National Park Service (NPS) may acquire the additional land through donation, with donated funds, with appropriated amounts, or through a land exchange. The legislation also would designate Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield in Henderson County, Tennessee, as an affiliated area of the National Park System and would direct the NPS to develop a management plan for the area.
Based on recent sale prices of comparable tracts of land in the areas where land would be purchased, and information from the NPS, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would cost $3 million over the 2018-2022 period, assuming the land was acquired with appropriated funds over the next five years. Based on an analysis of information from the NPS, the cost of developing the management plan required by the legislation would be insignificant.
Enacting H.R. 88 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 88 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
H.R. 88 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local or tribal governments.
