H.R. 3922 would direct the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the legal and programmatic barriers to conducting wildfire mitigation across land ownership boundaries on federal and nonfederal land and on changes that would improve federal, state, and tribal governments’ capacity to mitigate wildfires. Using information about the cost of similar reports, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 3922 would cost less than $500,000 over the 2026-2031 period. Any spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
The CBO staff contact for this estimate is David Rafferty. The estimate was reviewed by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Director of Budget Analysis.
