To provide for a land exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving the transfer of land to the Bureau of Land Management and the Six Rivers National Forest in exchange for National Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1237.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1237, a bill to provide for a land exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving the transfer of land to the Bureau of Land Management and the Six Rivers National Forest in exchange for National Forest” on May 11, 2012. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 25, 2012”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 11, 2012 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/43241

  CBO publication date

  May 11, 2012

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1237, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f5d608d763c8d0d880fed2d77a885686745cb2260242be9515d8c8ed3238321

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 112-500 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on May 30, 2012.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 30, 2012 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/HRPT/500

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1237, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f5d608d763c8d0d880fed2d77a885686745cb2260242be9515d8c8ed3238321

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HERGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Pages H2038-H2039):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

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  Statement length

  32 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1237, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f5d608d763c8d0d880fed2d77a885686745cb2260242be9515d8c8ed3238321

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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