To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Castle Nugent Farms located on St. Croix, Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 318.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 318, An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Castle Nugent Farms located on St. Croix, Virgin Islands, as a unit of the Nationa Park System, and for other purposes” on March 13, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 8, 2006</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 13, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17649

  CBO publication date

  March 13, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 318, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/318

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  064f944919fae0fc3f09d49c2b9c118d827657c2dfe6de4ece94db95677cbecc

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 318, An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Castle Nugent Farms located on St. Croix, Virgin Islands, as a unit of the Nationa Park System, and for other purposes” on March 13, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 8, 2006”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 13, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17649

  CBO publication date

  March 13, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 318, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/318

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  064f944919fae0fc3f09d49c2b9c118d827657c2dfe6de4ece94db95677cbecc

• 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: S. Rept. 109-241 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 20, 2006.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 20, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/SRPT/241

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 318, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/318

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  064f944919fae0fc3f09d49c2b9c118d827657c2dfe6de4ece94db95677cbecc

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