H.R. 219 would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a survey of a 26-acre parcel of land within the boundary of the Swan Lake Hydroelectric Project in Alaska. The bill also would require the federal government to convey the parcel, which is currently under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service, to the state of Alaska. Using information provided by the affected agencies, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would have no significant effect on the federal budget. The parcel is not currently generating any receipts for the Forest Service and it is not expected to do so in the future.
Enacting H.R. 219 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting the bill would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
H.R. 219 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
On April 27, 2017, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 267, a bill to provide for the correction of a survey of certain land in the state of Alaska, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 30, 2017. The two bills are similar and the CBO’s estimate of their budgetary effects are the same.
