A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain facilities of the Minidoka project to the Burley Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 538.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 538, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain facilities of the Minidoka project to the Burley Irrigation District, and for other purposes” on October 31, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on October 22, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 31, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10510

  CBO publication date

  October 31, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 538, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/538

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  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: S. Rept. 105-131 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on November 3, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 3, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/131

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 538, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/538

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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