To direct the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study to determine the most feasible method of developing a safe and adequate municipal, rural, and industrial water supply for the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4938.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4938, A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study to determine the most feasible method of developing a safe and adequate municipal, rural, and industrial water . . .” on July 31, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 24, 2002</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 31, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13906

  CBO publication date

  July 31, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4938, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4938

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0bda8846811ed74e87a3acd49dae3292851ed4b0c879fb37852ddef195698532

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4938, A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study to determine the most feasible method of developing a safe and adequate municipal, rural, and industrial water . . .” on July 31, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 24, 2002”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 31, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13906

  CBO publication date

  July 31, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4938, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4938

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0bda8846811ed74e87a3acd49dae3292851ed4b0c879fb37852ddef195698532

• 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. 107-643 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 5, 2002.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 5, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/643

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4938, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4938

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0bda8846811ed74e87a3acd49dae3292851ed4b0c879fb37852ddef195698532

  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. 4938, last updated June 20, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.