To suspend the continued development of a roadless area policy on public domain units and other units of the National Forest System pending adequate public participation and determinations that a roadless area policy will not adversely affect forest health.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3297.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3297, A bill to suspend the continued development of a roadless area policy on public domain units and other units of the National Forest System pending adequate public participation and determinations...” on April 3, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on March 25, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 3, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10726

  CBO publication date

  April 3, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3297, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3297

  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. 105-816 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on October 12, 1998.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 12, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/816

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3297, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3297

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bc5f217bd8eb3481e624ddeeb06e708840ee1a8b45e67926aac2c5e1716f6388

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