To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study on the Alder Creek water storage and conservation project in El Dorado County, California, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3597.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3597, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study on the Alder Creek water storage and conservation project in El Dorado County, California, and for other purposes” on July 23, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 14, 2004</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 23, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15857

  CBO publication date

  July 23, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3597, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/3597

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d585b8194a09cb6d79a81bab8571d91220aa90cef2cd342d5768baba11f4dd79

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3597, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study on the Alder Creek water storage and conservation project in El Dorado County, California, and for other purposes” on July 23, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 14, 2004”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 23, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15857

  CBO publication date

  July 23, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3597, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/3597

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d585b8194a09cb6d79a81bab8571d91220aa90cef2cd342d5768baba11f4dd79

• 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. 108-646 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 7, 2004.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 7, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/646

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3597, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/3597

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d585b8194a09cb6d79a81bab8571d91220aa90cef2cd342d5768baba11f4dd79

  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. 3597, last updated April 7, 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.