To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural Treatment System Project, to authorize the Secretary to carry out a program to assist agencies in projects to construct regional brine lines in California, and to authorize the Secretary to participate in the Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation project.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 142.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 142, A bill to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural Treatment System project, to authorize the Secretary to carry out” on June 3, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on May 5, 2004</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 3, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15703

  CBO publication date

  June 3, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 142, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/142

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3506af58da9f613764753eb02517d878ecbe8a9279d95f69b2fd35d576c475a

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 142, A bill to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural Treatment System project, to authorize the Secretary to carry out” on June 3, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on May 5, 2004”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 3, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15703

  CBO publication date

  June 3, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 142, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/142

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3506af58da9f613764753eb02517d878ecbe8a9279d95f69b2fd35d576c475a

• 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. 108-564 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on June 23, 2004.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 23, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/564

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 142, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/142

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e3506af58da9f613764753eb02517d878ecbe8a9279d95f69b2fd35d576c475a

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