To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4389.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4389, An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes” on October 15, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives on October 4, 2004</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 15, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16113

  CBO publication date

  October 15, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4389, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4389

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d20543acc14300dcbfa9f0aa4b30108e462536dd2c775f7d4d49f49bc270a20e

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4389, An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes” on October 15, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives on October 4, 2004”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 15, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16113

  CBO publication date

  October 15, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4389, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4389

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d20543acc14300dcbfa9f0aa4b30108e462536dd2c775f7d4d49f49bc270a20e

• 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. 108-718 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on October 4, 2004.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 4, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/718

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4389, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4389

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d20543acc14300dcbfa9f0aa4b30108e462536dd2c775f7d4d49f49bc270a20e

  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. 4389, last updated June 6, 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.