A bill to provide for Alaska State jurisdiction over small hydroelectric projects, to address voluntary licensing of hydroelectric projects on fresh waters in the State of Hawaii, to provide an exemption for portion of a hydroelectric project located in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 439.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 439, A bill to provide for Alaska state jurisdiction over small hydroelectric projects...” on September 30, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 24, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 30, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10415

  CBO publication date

  September 30, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 439, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/439

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ab8cb1ef49eeedd33b575b28614abbb32904568205a7a671bb24f9b6b9850b70

• 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. 105-111 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on October 15, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 15, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/111

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 439, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/439

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ab8cb1ef49eeedd33b575b28614abbb32904568205a7a671bb24f9b6b9850b70

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