Oceans Act of 1997

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1213.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1213, Oceans Act of 1997” on November 6, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on November 4, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 6, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10537

  CBO publication date

  November 6, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1213, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1213

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  989730d3bbbadfff2d3f3099452370d4222fd85dc1868171f202796a98aa8998

• 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: S. Rept. 105-151 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on November 9, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 9, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/151

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1213, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1213

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  989730d3bbbadfff2d3f3099452370d4222fd85dc1868171f202796a98aa8998

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