H.R. 4645 would designate two segments of the East Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Under the bill, the Forest Service would administer the river segments. Using information provided by the Forest Service about typical costs involved in administering such river segments, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost less than $500,000. Such spending, which CBO expects would begin one year after the designation occurs, would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
Enacting H.R. 4645 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 4645 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2029.
H.R. 4645 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
On April 7, 2017, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 501, the East Rosebud Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 30, 2017. The bills are similar, and CBO’s estimates of their budgetary effects are the same.
