A bill 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 the State of Idaho, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 542.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 542, A bill 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 the state of Idaho, and for other purposes” on May 31, 2007. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 23, 2007</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 31, 2007 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18704

  CBO publication date

  May 31, 2007

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 542, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/s/542

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9935da3ce5cca25ed72b319c456a4f1c3fc1df6c5fa157282bf4450f57e2d5e1

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 542, A bill 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 the state of Idaho, and for other purposes” on May 31, 2007. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 23, 2007”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 31, 2007 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18704

  CBO publication date

  May 31, 2007

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 542, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/s/542

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9935da3ce5cca25ed72b319c456a4f1c3fc1df6c5fa157282bf4450f57e2d5e1

• 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. 110-113 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 28, 2007.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 28, 2007 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/SRPT/113

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 542, 110th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/s/542

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9935da3ce5cca25ed72b319c456a4f1c3fc1df6c5fa157282bf4450f57e2d5e1

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