Restoring the Everglades, an American Legacy Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2797.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2797, Restoring the Everglades, an American Legacy Act” on August 11, 2000. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on July 27, 2000”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 11, 2000 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12609

  CBO publication date

  August 11, 2000

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2797, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/2797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 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. 106-363 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Environment and Public Works Committee on July 27, 2000.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 27, 2000 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/SRPT/363

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2797, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/2797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0d3030ac56a873996250e6bc32b24886461c063d6b7f90078fa9a52d8d6ce41

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• Congress.gov noteThe text of S. 2797, the Everglades Restoration Act, was incorporated in S. 2796, the Water Resources Development Act. S. 2796 became Public Law 106-541.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2797, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/2797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0d3030ac56a873996250e6bc32b24886461c063d6b7f90078fa9a52d8d6ce41

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