A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with that trail, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1970.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1970, A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components” on March 15, 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 15, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17659

  CBO publication date

  March 15, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1970, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1970

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c682c6fc14a377b4798c776ea3db6b32bd4f56db5c224a1e8e330cb06ae348f3

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1970, A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components” on March 15, 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 15, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17659

  CBO publication date

  March 15, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1970, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1970

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c682c6fc14a377b4798c776ea3db6b32bd4f56db5c224a1e8e330cb06ae348f3

• 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. 109-239 ↗. 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/239

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1970, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1970

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c682c6fc14a377b4798c776ea3db6b32bd4f56db5c224a1e8e330cb06ae348f3

  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.

• Congress.gov noteFor further action, see H.R.3085, which became Public Law 109-378 on 12/1/2006.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1970, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/1970

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c682c6fc14a377b4798c776ea3db6b32bd4f56db5c224a1e8e330cb06ae348f3

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