To amend the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to designate the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and to amend the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 to designate the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 136.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 136, A bill to amend the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to designate the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and to amend the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 to designate the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center” on September 18, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on September 10, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 18, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10368

  CBO publication date

  September 18, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 136, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/136

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-328 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on October 21, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 21, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/328

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 136, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/136

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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