H.R. 1314 would amend the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009 and authorize the appropriation of $47.5 million each year over the 2020-2024 period for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Integrated Ocean Observation System (IOOS). CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost $209 million over the 2020-2024 period and $29 million after 2024. In 2019, NOAA allocated $45 million to operate the IOOS.
The cost of the legislation, detailed in Table 1, falls within budget function 300 (natural resources and environment).
On May 8, 2019, CBO transmitted an estimate for S. 914, the Coordinated Ocean Observation and Research Act of 2019, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on April 3, 2019. Title I of S. 914 is similar to H.R. 1314. CBO’s estimated costs for those provisions are different because the two pieces of legislation would authorize the appropriation of different amounts.
