To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a comprehensive study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer, located in Idaho and Washington.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4609.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4609, A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a comprehensive study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer, located in Idaho and Washington” on May 31, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on May 22, 2002</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 31, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13707

  CBO publication date

  May 31, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4609, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6fcfb3a9d0ba5b7d9092b90ebd70c3355f5a13931a441b08641920904fe2fe9c

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4609, A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a comprehensive study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer, located in Idaho and Washington” on May 31, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on May 22, 2002”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 31, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13707

  CBO publication date

  May 31, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4609, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6fcfb3a9d0ba5b7d9092b90ebd70c3355f5a13931a441b08641920904fe2fe9c

• 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. 107-492 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on June 5, 2002.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 5, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/492

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4609, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6fcfb3a9d0ba5b7d9092b90ebd70c3355f5a13931a441b08641920904fe2fe9c

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4609, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.