To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from charging State and local government agencies for certain uses of the sand, gravel, and shell resources of the outer Continental Shelf.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3972.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3972, A bill to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from charging state and local government agencies for certain uses of the sand, gravel, and shell resources of the outer continental shelf” on August 17, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on August 5, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 17, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11098

  CBO publication date

  August 17, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3972, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3972

  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. 105-766 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on October 2, 1998.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 2, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/766

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3972, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3972

  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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