Rio Grande Natural Area Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 56.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 56, Rio Grande Natural Area Act” on February 23, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on February 16, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 23, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16286

  CBO publication date

  February 23, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 56, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/56

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b831027b0fd6a4886539d8e8a292f571be6eecc843f6da5fc12b448cdf7dfac8

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 56, Rio Grande Natural Area Act” on February 23, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on February 16, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 23, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16286

  CBO publication date

  February 23, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 56, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/56

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b831027b0fd6a4886539d8e8a292f571be6eecc843f6da5fc12b448cdf7dfac8

• 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. 109-45 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on March 30, 2005.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 30, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/SRPT/45

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 56, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/56

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b831027b0fd6a4886539d8e8a292f571be6eecc843f6da5fc12b448cdf7dfac8

  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 S. 56, 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.