To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct feasibility studies to address certain water shortages within the Snake, Boise, and Payette River systems in Idaho, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2563.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2563, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct feasibility studies to address water shortages within the Snake, Boise, and Payette River systems in Idaho” on April 6, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on March 29, 2006</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 6, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17714

  CBO publication date

  April 6, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2563, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/2563

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  59d333ca7ad5bb49191c81180f5aecaf91a172e7f932fba067aafb679bd6872d

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2563, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct feasibility studies to address water shortages within the Snake, Boise, and Payette River systems in Idaho” on April 6, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on March 29, 2006”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 6, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17714

  CBO publication date

  April 6, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2563, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/2563

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  59d333ca7ad5bb49191c81180f5aecaf91a172e7f932fba067aafb679bd6872d

• 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. 109-420 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on April 25, 2006.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 25, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/420

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2563, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/2563

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  59d333ca7ad5bb49191c81180f5aecaf91a172e7f932fba067aafb679bd6872d

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2563, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.