Franklin National Battlefield Study Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1972.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1972, Franklin National Battlefield Study Act” on November 3, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on October 19, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 3, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17438

  CBO publication date

  November 3, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1972, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1972

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6e8e9e9fff4e5ffada56b0f7666059792438a2c6ce00b763d9c27181eb78c10b

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1972, Franklin National Battlefield Study Act” on November 3, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on October 19, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 3, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17438

  CBO publication date

  November 3, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1972, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1972

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6e8e9e9fff4e5ffada56b0f7666059792438a2c6ce00b763d9c27181eb78c10b

• 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. 109-289 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on November 10, 2005.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 10, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/289

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1972, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1972

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6e8e9e9fff4e5ffada56b0f7666059792438a2c6ce00b763d9c27181eb78c10b

  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. 1972, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.